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Commander Grace Landers is an Emergency Medicine Physician and Undersea Medical Officer in the United States Navy. She is the MARFORCYBER/MARFORSPACE/MARCOR INFOCOM Command Surgeon and a Fellow in Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Commander Landers graduated from Uniformed Services University in 2011. After completing her internship in Family Medicine at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, Commander Landers attached to Naval Special Warfare Group THREE as the Senior Medical Officer/Undersea Medical Officer for Logistics and Support Unit THREE, Pearl City, HI. In this role, she qualified as a Submarine Medical Officer, Navy and Marine Corps Parachutist, and with Dry Deck Shelters, Mixed Gas and Decompression diving as well as SERE. Her responsibilities included developing medical plans and direct support, stabilization, and evacuation of casualties for classified level training and operations in a variety of environments. Landers's innovative thinking led to the creation of the first Authorized Medical Allowance Lists for specific undersea capabilities, reducing medical evacuations from submarines. Tasked with providing damage control surgery and Role II levels of care in challenging environments she led the creation and first deployment of the RII-RSS (Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System-Special Missions). Following graduation from Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s Emergency Medicine Residency in July of 2019, CDR Landers was competitively selected for the Faculty Development in Emergency Ultrasonography program graduating in July 2020. She immediately assumed duties as the Director for Emergency Ultrasonography-Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, Physician Supervisor for the Independent Duty Corpsmen, and the Acting Chair of the Code Blue Committee. In 2022, CDR Landers deployed as the Surgeon for the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit. She is the Director for the Navy’s first official pilot program to deploy ultrasound medical capability onboard submarines.