The United States Public Health Service, A Wonderful Career!!!  

Please celebrate with us as we highlight and honor nurses who have achieved successful professional careers with the US Public Health Service.  

This Term's Honoree is:

CDR James LaVelle Dickens

Commander James LaVelle Dickens serves in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office, Office of the Secretary, Region VI Dallas, TX.

CDR Dickens is a Doctoral Candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. The focus of his doctoral research involves low birth weight and very low birth weight infants in District’s 7 & 8 of Kabul, Afghanistan.

In 2008, he was selected to participate as a clinical team member for the Afghanistan Health Initiative (AHI) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The mission of the AHI is to improve quality of care, and maternal and infant mortality rates at the Rabia Balkhi Womens’ Hospital. CDR Dickens deployed to Afghanistan multiple times, and was responsible for training of over one hundred nurses and lay midwives in the clinical standards of practice of the operating theater. CDR Dickens a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.