81st MDG Airmen win AF-level awards Published Feb. 13, 2015 By Susan Griggs 81st Training Wing Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- Two members of the 81st Medical Group, Maj. (Dr.) Nicholas DuVall and Senior Airman Cory Gage, are Air Force Medical Service annual award winners for 2014. DuVall, 81st Dental Squadron residency deputy director, revamped the training curriculum from a one-year training program to an advanced two-year program. He was the primary instructor and course director for three master's level courses, providing more than 80 hours of lectures and more than 240 hours of clinical supervision. Duvall was credited with developing a unique supply program for the residency, resulting in more than $15,000 in savings and ensuring availability of state-of-the-art materials. He also evaluated, assigned and coordinated 40 multidisciplinary cases to facilitate board certification of program graduates. He has been on active duty with the Air Force for eight years and arrived at Keesler in July 2012. Gage, a medical laboratory airman from the 81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron, arrived at Keesler, his first assignment, three years ago. He instructed 37 Air Force Reserve Command Phase II students in 98 tasks over 295 hours and was named best preceptor three times. While deployed, Gage tested 16,000 labs and prepared 869 transfusion units, beating the Air Force standard by 52 percent and obtaining results in 25 minutes. He supported nine forward operating bases with 105 traumas, certified 110,000 tests and issued 1,100 blood products worth $555,000. He submitted 100 drug-resistant cultures, bolstering combat-casualty research. He reported and conducted 30 hygiene surveys, trained 116 personnel and led two inspections with no findings and 100 percent compliance.