Former Acting Army Surgeon General
22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
Major General (Retired) Gale S. Pollock completed her thirty-six year career as the Acting Surgeon General for the Army and the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps. As the Acting Surgeon General, she led an organization with a budget of $9.7 billion, a workforce of 150,000 people and was responsible for healthcare, on and off the battlefield, for over four million beneficiaries. She commanded at Fort Drum, N.Y., Fort Benning, GA, and Tripler Army Medical Center, HI. MG Pollock is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist who served at multiple locations in that role. MG Pollock worked as a policy analyst at the Pentagon and for the Department of Defense’s Under Secretary of Health Affairs.
MG Pollock has a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Maryland (Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing Program), a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Baylor University, and a Masters in National Security and Strategy from the National Defense University. She attended the Inter-Agency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives, Battlefield to Board Room by the National Association of Corporate Directors, and was a Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. She has received numerous professional appointments, including the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. MG Pollock received multiple awards including an Honorary Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Maryland, is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow in the American Legion Auxiliary, and was a Distinguished Alumni of Baylor University. She received approval from Queen Elizabeth to serve as a member of the most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
After her career in the Army, MG Pollock served as the executive director of the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently the chief executive officer of Elevivo, Inc.