Anthony C. Boganey

CAPT Anthony C. Boganey MD FACS MBA Medical Corps, United States Navy is the Staff Endocrine Surgeon at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He received a B.A. from Oakland University, completed pre-medical education at The University of Michigan, and received his M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He completed General Surgery training at The Cleveland Clinic and Akron City Hospitals, and an Endocrine Surgery Fellowship at The University of California San Francisco.

CAPT Boganey entered the Navy in 1999 and was assigned to U.S.S. John C. Stennis in 2003. From 2004–2005 he served as General Surgeon on U.S.S. Nimitz. During this period he implemented a streamlined the emergency medical response resulting in decreased response time to personnel casualties with decreased disruption of shipboard actives.

CAPT Boganey was then assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, (NHCP) as a staff General Surgeon. From 2006–2008 he served as Department Head of General Surgery where he modified clinic templates resulting in improved beneficiary access. He also obtained an MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School, where his capstone project was “Navy Trauma Management Network in the Mature Ground Combat Environment.”

From 2008-10 he served as Director of Surgical Services at NHCP. He directed 11 departments and actively perused a culture of safety and continuous process improvement, leading implementation of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist and revision of the Prevention of Wrong Site Surgery Protocol. He was assigned command’s project manager for the NHCP/Johns Hopkins Obstetrics Efficiency Project.

CAPT Boganey subsequent operational activity included deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 2008–2009; deployed to Afghanistan 2011-2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) where he served as Officer in Charge of Forward Surgical Team, Spin Boldak. And most recently completed his third carrier deployment aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. During this deployment CAPT Boganey initiated weekly Morbidity and Mortality to improve the quality of care delivered.

In 2014 CAPT Boganey returned to Naval Medical Center San Diego where he was tasked with developing a comprehensive Endocrine Surgery Program and expanding the endocrine surgical experience for general surgery residents. He was appointed NMCSD Surgical Champion for the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.