Keesler receives 29 AETC medical awards Published Jan. 22, 2009 By Steve Pivnick 81st Medical Group Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, MISS. -- Members of the 81st Medical Group reaped 29 awards in the 2008 Air Education and Training Command Air Force Medical Service competition. Category winners listed below by unit now compete at Air Force level with other major command winners. Keesler Medical Center Patient safety program best inpatient facility. 81st MDG Senior Master Sgt. Dedra Simmonds, senior aerospace medicine service functional manager. 81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron Master Sgt. Lloyd Alston, Olson/Wegner aerospace medicine noncommissioned officer. 81st Dental Squadron Tech. Sgt. Jill Higgins, dental NCO.81st DS clinic, large clinic category. 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron Maj. Stacey Van Orden, field grade dietician.Nutritional medicine flight, team award. Senior Master Sgt. Ronald Hagen, Chief Master Sgt. Harvey A. Cain senior NCO award for nutritional medicine.Pharmacy flight, team award.Senior Airman Kwamina Boyd, pharmacy airman. 81st Medical Operations Squadron Lt. Col. Christine Taylor, field grade nursing service.Maj. Brian Kittelson, nurse practitioner. Capt. Robert Greiman, company grade social worker.Master Sgt. Christopher Aric, cardiopulmonary laboratory senior NCO.Senior Airman Thomas Sandoz, Chief Master Sgt. Lewis Dunlap award.Master Sgt. David Boggs, global health NCO. 81st Medical Support Squadron Medical logistics flight, large activity award.Capt. Robert Allen, company grade health facilities officer.Tech. Sgt. Lerry Forester, medical materiel NCO.Master Sgt. James Buhr, biomedical equipment repair NCO.First Lt. Christopher McMillian, resource management officer.Maj. Sam Silverthorne, surgeon general's medical information services officer.Tech. Sgt. Natascha Jones Williams, health plans management NCO.Tech. Sgt. Shane Fountain, expeditionary medical operations NCO. 81st Surgical Operations Squadron Maj. (Dr.) Kerry Latham, clinical excellence.Capt. Robert Colella, perioperative nurse.Master Sgt. Rickey Mann, Col. Donald Dunton award senior NCO award for optometry. Airman Devin Rudd, physical medicine apprentice.Tech. Sgt. George Koehler, surgical services NCO (photo unavailable).