{"id":174,"date":"2012-03-04T23:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-03-05T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:17:19","slug":"col-jeffrey-hutchinson-b4-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"COL Jeffrey Hutchinson (B4) Receives Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COL Jeffrey Hutchinson (B4) &#8217;89<\/strong>, Chief of Adolescent Medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, M.D., will receive the Medical Leadership Award during the 26th annual Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)\u00a0Conference Technology Career Fair and Expo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hutchinson oversees the direct care of more than 2,000 patients, mostly between the ages of 13 and 25, in his current post at Walter Reed. And without his strong science background, Hutchinson wouldn\u2019t be able to do what he thoroughly enjoys doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalter Reed is a Department of Defense facility, where we treat those that are retired, about to be retired and their children,\u201d Hutchinson said. \u201cBut people don\u2019t realize that almost half of those currently enlisted are under 35, and that\u2019s the group that I consult on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the reason I even got into adolescent medicine,\u201d Hutchinson continued. \u201cTo reach kids that are right on the cusp of becoming adults \u2014 and I also deal with kids that may have made some bad decisions \u2014 but a bad decision at 14 is much different than a lifetime of bad decisions at 45.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Way to go, Jeff. \u00a0Read more details in the <a href=\"http:\/\/phillytrib.com\/newsarticles\/item\/2765-black-engineers-honor-army-pedi\">Philly Tribune&#8217;s article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COL Jeffrey Hutchinson (B4) &#8217;89, Chief of Adolescent Medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, M.D., will receive the Medical Leadership Award during the 26th annual Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)\u00a0Conference Technology Career Fair and Expo. Hutchinson oversees the direct care of more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,11,19],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-b4","tag-hutchinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}