Editor-in-Chief, Chester 'Trip' Buckenmaier III
MD, COL, MC, USA
As the first decade of the 21st century passes into history, Outlook 2011 provides a forum for federal medicine’s leadership to examine this past decade of unprecedented change and provide their vision of the future. Some of the highlights of this issue include perspectives from the service Surgeons General.

Dr Robert Petzel
Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs
The Veterans Health Administration, a part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, is in the midst of a major transformation in how we provide services to our veteran patients. We are creating a healthcare system that is, first and foremost, patient centered and characterized by team care.

Lt Gen Eric B Schoomaker
Surgeon General of the Army and commander of US Army Medical Command
Army medicine is committed to serving the military family. We achieve this through strategic performance improvement to optimize health and well-being and to maximize the value of health services provided soldiers, retirees, their family members, and commanders in support of the nation.

Vice Adm Adam M Robinson Jr
36th Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine
Navy medicine is a thriving, global healthcare system fully engaged and integrated in providing high quality healthcare to beneficiaries in wartime and in peacetime.

Lt Gen (Dr) Charles B Green
Surgeon General US Air Force
We in the Military Health System have made ourselves a tough act to follow. Our achievements have changed the face of war. We can deploy and set up a hospital in 12 hours almost anywhere in the world.