Menger addresses military medicine at U.S. Navy Operational Medicine Symposium

Richard Menger, M.D., M.P.A, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the USA College of Medicine and chief of complex spine surgery at USA Health, presented a lecture about the impact and treatment of back pain on deployed and operational sailors and Marines at the U.S. Navy Operational Medicine Symposium at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Menger discussed state-of-the-art delivery of military medicine in the operational or deployed environment with a group of more than 130 medical officers who attended in person and virtually on June 6. Camp Lejeune is home to thousands of expeditionary forces in readiness and is the largest U.S. Marine Corps base on the east coast.

Menger is a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserves Medical Corps. He has performed research and published a series of peer-reviewed articles focusing on military medicine topics. He previously had a policy op-ed regarding military medicine featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Menger also is director of the USA Health Spine Institute that specializes in operative and non-operative delivery of spine care. He performs state-of-the-art minimally invasive spinal procedures (MIS) and has special expertise in the entire spectrum of conservative and surgical management of conditions in children and adults. 

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