About Us

Director
CAPTAIN KARLA LEPORE, MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS, U.S. NAVY
COCAPT Lepore was born in Sioux Center, Iowa, but considers herself a native of Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Arizona State University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science and went on to earn her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Western Michigan University in 1998. It was this same year she was commissioned as a direct accession into the Navy. She also earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership in 2016.

She served operationally as an Individual Augmentee to Alpha Surgical Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force Forward at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan in 2010 and as the Executive Officer for the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2018.

During her ashore tours, Lepore served in various positions throughout Navy medicine to include occupational therapist at the Educational Developmental Interventions Services in Sasebo and Yokota Japan, the Director of Clinical Services at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, Medical Service Corps Policy and Planning Officer for the Office of the Corps Chief at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Falls Church, Virginia and Director of Branch Clinics at Naval Medical Readiness and Training Command, San Diego, California. She was assigned as Executive Officer in 2021 for the USNS MERCY (T-AH-19) in San Diego, California. In June 2023 she assumed the role of Deputy Corps Chief for the Navy Medical Service Corps at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Falls Church, Virginia.

CAPT Lepore is board-certified by the National Board of Occupational Therapists and by the Hand Therapy Certification Commission as a Certified Hand Therapist (CHT). She served as a Navy Occupational Therapy Specialty Leader and as a review board member on the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) as well as on the accreditation appeals board for the American Occupational Therapy Association. She is currently licensed as an Occupational Therapist in the state of California.

CAPT Lepore’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (five awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, as well as the Fleet Marine Force Qualified Officer designation.
Deputy Director
CAPTAIN JESSICA WOODY, UNITED STATES NAVY
Bio forthcoming
Command Master Chief
WILLIAM P. EICKHOFF, UNITED STATES NAVY
A native of Southern California, Command Master Chief Eickhoff joined the Navy in July 1996.  After his initial hospital corpsman training, he reported to his first tour at Naval Medical Center San Diego and worked in the Operating Room as an anesthesia technician. 

His operational assignments include search and rescue corpsman at Roosevelt Roads/Fleet Composite Squadron (VC) 8, Puerto Rico, independent duty corpsman (IDC) on the Avenger-class mine countermeasure ship USS Scout (MCM 8), IDC and mountaineer at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, and the Medical Department head and company senior enlisted advisor at Coastal Riverine Squadron Three.

Ashore, served as an IDC and emergency medicine coordinator at Branch Health Clinic, Brunswick, Maine and the Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Destin, Florida. 

In 2018, he was selected and changed rate to command senior enlisted leader. His first tour as a command senior chief was the U.S. Pacific Fleet master chief’s executive assistant. He then went to the Pacific Missile Range Facility where he was promoted to command master chief. 
 
Most recently, Eickhoff was the command master chief onboard the guided missile destroyer USS Chung Hoon (DDG 93).

He has qualified as expeditionary warfare specialist, enlisted surface warfare specialist, and naval aircrew. He has earned numerous medals and unit awards throughout his career. He holds a Bachelor of Science from George Washington University and is a graduate from the U.S. Navy’s Senior Enlisted Academy, command master chief/chief of the boat, and advanced command master chief courses.

He currently serves as the command master chief of Naval Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton.
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