TATRC Hosts DHA Deputy Assistant Director, BG Simonson!

September 30, 2021  |  Download PDF

COL Jeremy Pamplin, Commander, welcomes BG Katherine Simonson, Deputy Assistant Director for Research & Development, J-9, DHA to TATRC.
COL Jeremy Pamplin, Commander, welcomes BG Katherine Simonson, Deputy Assistant Director for Research & Development, J-9, DHA to TATRC.

Earlier this past fall, Team TATRC had the privilege of hosting BG Katherine Simonson, Deputy Assistant Director, for Research & Development, J-9, at the Defense Health Agency for a briefing on our current and future projects and initiatives! After a comprehensive briefing with our Command team, BG Simonson was able to meet the medics and see our simulation scenario before she rolled up her sleeves to get hands-on with demonstrations from our Medical Modeling Simulation, Innovation, and Visualization (MMSIV) and Medical Robotics and Autonomous Systems (MedRAS) Divisions!

A nurse by training, BG Simonson was able to spend valuable time with MAJ Patricia Schmidt, TATRC’s first-ever Nurse Scientist, and Acting Chief for the MMSIV Division, which proved to be a natural fit given their similar backgrounds.

Mr. Geoff Miller, MMSIV Division Chief, walks BG Simonson through a simulated, casualty scenario, as demonstrated by TATRC's MMSIV team.
Mr. Geoff Miller, MMSIV Division Chief, walks BG Simonson through a simulated, casualty scenario, as demonstrated by TATRC's MMSIV team.

A native of Brooklyn and Elmira New York, BG Simonson is a Distinguished Military Graduate of Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Her education includes a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Masters of Nursing from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She was commissioned into the Regular Army in 1990.

Mr. Nate Fisher, MedRAS Division Chief, shows BG Simonson some of the research initiatives in autonomous systems and robotics.
Mr. Nate Fisher, MedRAS Division Chief, shows BG Simonson some of the research initiatives in autonomous systems and robotics.

BG Simonson is a graduate of the AMEDD Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Medical Management of Chemical Biologic Casualty Course, AMEDD Critical Care Nurse Course, the Combined Arms and Services Staff School, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College.

We're grateful for BG Simonson's time and valuable insight, and look forward to the next visit!


This article was published in the April 2022 issue of the TATRC Times.