Director – Cmdr. Jeffrey Millegan
Cmdr. Jeffrey Millegan is the Director of the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control. He obtained his BS and MD from Tulane University and completed his psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD). Later, he received an MPH from Uniformed Services University (USU) and completed a fellowship in Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry. He is a board-certified psychiatrist, fellow of the American Psychiatry Association, faculty at NMCSD and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at USU.
During his previous tour at NMCSD, he served as head of the Fleet Mental Health Clinic with primary clinical responsibility for the Navy fleet and air operational forces in San Diego and later as Senior Medical Officer for the Directorate of Mental Health. In 2012, he founded the NMCSD Mind Body Medicine program to facilitate the integration of various self-care practices into patient care and build mental fitness in hospital staff and operational forces. The program has successfully integrated throughout NMCSD and been replicated at other military treatment facilities and operational units. Cmdr. Millegan is a prolific researcher with numerous peer-reviewed publications.
From 2011-2016, Cmdr. Millegan led the Navy Medicine West Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team providing rapid mental health support to Navy and Marine Corps units in the west coast and Asia. A recognized expert in trauma and disaster mental health, he has led joint-training missions to foreign militaries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has deployed to Iraq twice; once as a Marine infantry battalion surgeon where he oversaw the care of over 150 combat casualties and received a combat action ribbon and again as lead psychiatrist on a Combat Stress Team serving the Al Anbar province.
Cmdr. Millegan was recognized as a NMCSD Associate Master Clinician. He is a two-time winner of the Navy-wide research competition and a four-time winner of the Navy Medicine West annual research competition. In 2015, he was awarded the Military Health System Trailblazer Award for his work developing the Mind Body Medicine program.
Deputy Director - Cmdr. Jean Fisak
Cmdr. Jean Fisak was selected for the Navy Nurse Completion Program in 1993 and earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from San Jose State University in 1995, upon which she was commissioned in the Navy. She earned her graduate degree in nursing, specializing in psychiatric/mental health, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2002 through the Navy's Duty Under Instruction program. She is board certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Adult Psychiatric & Mental Health.
Fisak's career includes assignments at Naval Health Clinic Hawaii, and two tours at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), first in the inpatient surgical sub-specialty unit and later as the inpatient mental health CNS and department head. During her second tour at NMCSD she spearheaded and implemented the inpatient short-stay model.
Upon completion of her second tour at NMCSD she transferred to Naval Hospital Okinawa and served as the inpatient mental health department head and CNS. While there Fisak stood up the Navy's first Caregiver Operational Stress Control (CgOSC) team. After completing her tour at Okinawa she served at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune where she was the plank owner and champion of the hospital's inpatient mental health unit renovation project. During her tour at Lejeune she also deployed to Afghanistan as the Officer in Charge of Mobile Care Team 7.
From October 2011 to 2014 Fisak served as the Navy Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Specialty Leader. She has served as the Deputy Director, Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control since October 2013.
Fisak's awards include the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the NATO Medal, the NCCOSC Epictetus Leadership Award, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards) and the San Diego Advance Practice Psychiatric Nurse of the Year 2005-2006.