Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Watch The Sammies Winners: The National Security & International Affairs Medal Goes To…

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The Partnership for Public Service honored the nine winners of this year’s Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals at a Washington, D.C. gala Thursday evening.

This video features Charles Scoville of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, winner of the National Security & International Affairs Medal. Scoville enables combat amputees to lead active lives and potentially return to duty through an internationally recognized rehabilitation program that uses a novel sports medicine approach. Some 1,450 injured service members who have been through the program have gone on to complete triathlons, climb Mt. Everest and compete in gymnastics, skiing, rowing and other sports. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Feds@Work: Scoville Rewrites The Rules For Treating Amputees

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This is one in a series of profiles on the 2012 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal finalists. The awards, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, recognize outstanding federal employees whose important, behind-the-scenes work is advancing the health, safety and well-being of Americans and are among the most prestigious honors given to civil servants. This profile features a finalist for the National Security and International Affairs medal Charles Scoville, chief of the Amputee Patient Care Service at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

The building in a Washington, D.C. suburb where young athletes are engaged in intensive training activities is not an Olympic workout facility, but an advanced center for military amputees-part of a unique rehabilitation program designed and developed by Charles Scoville. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM