Dr. Lester Martnez-López, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, underscored the importance of teamwork and cooperation to “enable the Department of Defense to provide medically ready and ready medical forces by improving the health of all entrusted to our care” the theme for the 2024 meeting was “Beyond Duty: Empowering, Honoring, and Taking Care of Those Who Serve Our Nation” The theme “could not be more fitting to the mission of the MHS,”