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Former San Diego Navy Surgeon Treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

By Jamie Reno / Military Blogger

Published January 12, 2011 at 5:45 AM PST

Dr. Peter Rhee, director of trauma at University Medical Center, speaks about the improved condition of the shooting victims on January 10, 2011 in Tuscon, Arizona.

In yet another case in which military medical training is helping with a civilian tragedy, Dr. Peter Rhee, who treated hundreds of soldiers with traumautic brain injury (TBI), one of the signature wounds of the current war, while working as a Navy surgeon at Naval Medical Center in Balboa Park and as a trauma surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the physicians treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Tucson shooting victims. Rhee, a 24-year Navy veteran who is now the Trauma Chief at University Medical Center in Tucson, told ABC News today he is certain that Giffords will survive. (Read more)

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Jamie Reno

Jamie Reno blogged about the military for KPBS' Home Post blog. Jamie has been the San Diego correspondent for Newsweek magazine for nearly two decades, for which he has written or co-written cover stories on such subjects as the Enron collapse, Napster, the war on terrorism, media conglomeration, the Heaven's Gate religious cult, teen culture, and new cancer treatments. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, People, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. Jamie has won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist and Press Club awards, including the Press Club's Best of Show award in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

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