J. L. Hancock

About J. L. Hancock

Dr. James Hancock retired as The Medical Officer of the Marine Corps after a forty-year career in the Navy. Dr. Hancock has led the Navy’s largest and most complex medical centers, ultimately serving as the Corps Chief for the whole of Navy medicine worldwide with more than 4300 physicians across all specialties serving in 19 medical centers, two hospital ships and over 30 Navy medical commands and ambulatory care clinics. He earned his Bachelor of Science in engineering in 1990 from the United States Naval Academy and his doctorate of medicine degree in 1995 from Uniform Services University of Health Sciences. His service included submarine duty as an enlisted nuclear electrician, surface warfare duty as a Commander Amphibious task force surgeon, aviation warfare as a flight surgeon in USMC F-18 community, and with Naval Special Warfare as trauma support for combat operations. Following combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Hancock joined chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen’s Gray Team in 2009. The Gray Team was tasked to evaluate and advise the chairman on all facets of traumatic brain injury treatment and policy. Subsequently, he optimized battlefield treatment of traumatic brain injury during multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is credited with developing multiple modern combat medical platforms. RDML Hancock holds patents in the development of medical devices that have helped to optimize trauma care on the battlefield. He is board certified in Emergency medicine and family medicine.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   On Demand Pharmaceuticals Inc

   Apr 2023 — Present · Gaithersburg, MD, US

Education

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

  Doctor of Medicine - MD

• United States Naval Academy

  Bachelor's degree