Leadership
Commander and Director
Captain Anja Dabelić
Medical Corps, United States Navy
Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune
CAPT Anja Dabelić is a first generation American who grew up in the great state of Texas. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University in College Station. She worked a year as a research assistant at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Then attended the University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School in Houston, Texas through the Health Professional Scholarship Program to earn her Doctorate of Medicine. Then she selected to post-graduate medical education training at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia for a Transitional Internship in 2002.
Upon internship graduation and during primary care shortages in Navy Medicine, she was assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth as a General Medical Officer. She continued her medical training in family medicine residency at Naval Hospital Pensacola (NHP). She served as Chief Resident her final year and completed her training with distinguished honors.
CAPT Dabelić has served in various positions throughout Navy Medicine to include staff family medicine physician, Naval Branch Health Clinic Dahlgren and teaching faculty at NHP. Later selected as Department Head, NHP overseeing third largest Patient Centered Medical Home Port in the Navy. Additionally, she deployed with Joint Task Force serving as camp physician for 400 detainees for Joint Medical Group, Guantanamo Bay. She returned to NHP and became Family Medicine Residency Program Chair ensuring a bright future for next graduates of Family Medicine physicians. Later selected as Director of Medical Services, Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay overseeing provision of high-quality care in low volume, high acuity environment. Her professional reputation in family medicine and medical corps resulted in her selection as Assignment officer, Navy Personnel Command for over 900 Medical Corps officers within Operational and Family Medicine in Millington, TN. She served as Executive Officer at
U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness & Training Command (NMRTC) Guantanamo Bay where she oversaw medical care in the only military hospital in the Fourth Fleet’s area of responsibility. She assumed command of NMRTC Charleston in June 2022 where she led staff for caring of
18,500 patients vital to Navy nuclear power pipeline ensuring warfighter readiness, professional excellence, and strengthened network partnerships. CAPT Dabelić assumed command of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune and assumed directorship of Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune in May 2024.
CAPT Dabelić is board certified in Family Medicine, a fellow of the American Board of Family Physicians, an active member of the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians. Her personal decorations include a Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medals, Navy and Marine Corp Commendation Medals, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and various campaign and service ribbons.
Executive Officer
Captain Andrew H. Lin
Medical Corps, United States Navy
Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune
A native of Irvine, California, Captain Andrew Lin received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, graduating with Tau Beta Pi honors in 1996. He completed his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University in 2000 and his MBA from George Washington University. In 2001, he represented the All Navy and US Combined Services in rugby for the first of multiple years. That same year he graduated top of his flight surgery class and was assigned to the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center (Strike U, TOPGUN, TOPDOME, SWTI) in Fallon, NV.
Afterwards he completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) and was awarded the 2005-2008 “Resident Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award”. During his utilization tour at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, he deployed to Afghanistan with the Combined Security Transition Command. He was embedded with the Afghan Nation Army (ANA) helping to train and setup intensive care units (ICU) throughout Afghanistan’s ANA Regional Hospitals. Through his medical education, simulation, and hands on training, he was able to reduce mortality at the Kabul ANA National Military Hospital ICU from over 40% to 5%, while increasing the average census from 2 to over 10 ICU beds. CAPT Lin also served as the deployment Communications Security Officer and was responsible for over $12 million of tactical equipment.
From 2010 to 2013, he was assigned as cardiology fellow at NMCSD. In this capacity, he redesigned the Cardiology Simulation Program while also publishing a dozen peer reviewed publications and book chapters. This made him the most prolific cardiology research fellow in over a decade. From 2011-2013, he was voted “Fellow Teacher of the Year” and upon graduation he was assigned as staff cardiologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP).
While at NMCP from 2013-2016, he served as a staff cardiologist and Associate Director of Medical Services (ADMS). As the ADMS, he led 28 clinics, 238 providers, 858 personnel, and three residency programs while commanding a budget of over $2 million. During his first year there he was awarded the 2013-2014 “NMCP Attending of the Year Award”. He also served as the Director of Primary Care/Branch Clinics, leading the largest directorate in the Navy, which encompassed 10 branch clinics, over 1,600 personnel, and supported 427 Fleet commands.
In 2014, he was handpicked by Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to build Navy Medicine’s first asynchronous tele-consult system reaching eleven time zones supporting 4 Navy Fleets, 5 carriers, 9 amphibious ships, 39 ships/boats, 28 MTFs, and 428 operational providers. It continues to save over $1.2 million a year in avoided medevacs and recaptured care.
CAPT Lin served as the USS BATAAN (LHD 5) senior medical officer from 2016-2018. In August 2017 in support of Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen as the primary casualty receiving ship, he led a successful mass casualty resulting in the largest walking blood bank activation at sea since World War II. This has been credited with a pivotal role in establishing the Abraham Accords in October 2020, a peace treaty between the United States, United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Bahrain.
CAPT Lin was recently the III MEF Surgeon and the Navy’s Internal Medicine Specialty Leader to the Navy Surgeon General. CAPT Lin’s personal awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and multiple campaign and unit awards.
Command Master Chief
CMDCM Jason M. Roeder
United States Navy
Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune
Master Chief Roeder is a native of Denver, Colorado. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1996. After completion of basic training he attended Hospital Corpsman “A” School, Field Medical Service School and subsequent Surgical Technician “C” School.
His operational assignments include 10th Marine Regiment; 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines; Battalion Landing Team 2/6; USS KEARSARGE (LHD-3); 2d Medical Battalion; Fleet Hospital Three, Nasairiyah, Iraq; and Charlie Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon, Habbaniyah, Iraq.
Ashore, he served at Naval Hospital Beaufort, Naval Hospital, Keflavik Iceland; Naval Hospital Pensacola; Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, and as a High-Risk Instructor for the Center for Security Forces, Riverine Training Detachment.
He has participated in numerous deployments, exercises and operations to include the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003; operations Iraqi Freedom; Enduring Freedom; Inherent Resolve, and disaster relief operations for Hurricane Ivan and Joint Task Force Katrina.
Master Chief Roeder graduated from the Command Master Chief/Chief of the Boat course in 2020 and his previous CMC tours include 2d Dental Battalion and USS CARNEY (DDG-64). He assumed the duties as NMRTC Camp Lejeune Command Master Chief in April 2023.
Master Chief Roeder is also a graduate of the Senior Enlisted Academy (Class 207, Gray) and holds an Associates of Science degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
His decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (three awards), and various unit and campaign awards. He is qualified as an Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist. Enlisted Fleet Marine Force Warfare Specialist, and Master Training Specialist.