{"podcast":{"title":"WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast","slug":"wardocs-the-military-medicine-podcast-4055206","podcast_index_feed_id":4055206,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/wardocspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://wardocspodcast.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/12037519/WarDocs_Main_Logos-01_99egzx.jpg","author":"Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey","episode_count":267,"summary":"Welcome to WarDocs! This is a podcast developed and hosted by Active Duty and Veteran Military Medicine professionals who all possess a passion to honor the legacy and preserve the oral history of Military Medicine and get the stories of these healthcare heroes to inform and inspire our listeners and hopefully improve the future of medicine. We will take a behind-the-scenes look into unique opportunities and experiences told firsthand by current and former military professionals from all Servicers, ranks, and Cops and provide interesting and informative content about the mission, history, contributions, and achievements of all of Military Medicine You will better understand what military medical professionals do in deployed environments as well as their peacetime mission and how they train for the next conflict. You will also hear some incredible stories of how these WarDocs bring first-class medical care from Level 1 Trauma Centers to the most austere of conditions in every corner of the globe Please visit our website at www.wardocspodcast.com to get additional information about our hosts and our guests, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. If you like war…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T22:21:09.399324+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wardocs-the-military-medicine-podcast-4055206"},"episode":{"title":"Face Fears, Build Confidence, Lead: CAPT (Ret) Kimberly Elenberg DNP RN on Growth and Innovation in Military Medicine and Beyond","slug":"face-fears-build-confidence-lead-capt-ret-kimberly-elenberg-dnp-rn-on-growth-and-innovation-in-military-medicine-and-beyond","published_at":"2026-06-24T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wardocs-the-military-medicine-podcast-4055206/face-fears-build-confidence-lead-capt-ret-kimberly-elenberg-dnp-rn-on-growth-and-innovation-in-military-medicine-and-beyond","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wardocs-the-military-medicine-podcast-4055206","url":"https://wardocspodcast.podbean.com/e/face-fears-build-confidence-lead-capt-ret-kimberly-elenberg-dnp-rn-on-growth-and-innovation-in-military-medicine-and-beyond/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yvnv2i993nz3d56w/wdr_0108_elenberg_full_audioa4bnd.mp3","summary":"Few careers in military medicine trace an arc as wide as that of CAPT (Ret) Kimberly Elenberg, DNP, RN. In this episode she sits down with WarDocs to map a journey that began as an ROTC cadet who joined because she saw students rappelling down a building in Philadelphia, and that has since carried her from the bedside at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to the role of principal investigator on a Carnegie Mellon University team competing in the DARPA Triage Challenge. Along the way she changed uniforms, disciplines, and altitudes of responsibility, but never lost the thread that ties it all together: people first, and the relationships that make hard things possible. CAPT (Ret) Elenberg describes how early mentors shaped her. Colonel Graham showed her that putting people first is a practice, not a slogan. Major McGee backed her instinct for innovation, and as a young nurse on Ward 51 she built one of the first patient education centers in a military treatment facility, learned to set up networks and hardware, and pursued nursing informatics before the field was common. She recounts moving to research at NIH, where her work on TPA for clearing central line catheters was later adopted as best clinical practice, and her decision to volunteer as an EMT and medic so she would understand field medicine as well as hospital medicine. From there the conversation follows her into the U.S. Public Health Service, where after 9/11 the Surgeon General asked her to help build the nation's deployable response teams from concept to operation, training them in real communities facing real crises. She explains how anthrax and zoonotic disease drew public health into agriculture and food security, how her long relationship with Carnegie Mellon's Auton Lab began with a bus trip and a phone c…","meta_description":"Few careers in military medicine trace an arc as wide as that of CAPT (Ret) Kimberly Elenberg, DNP, RN. 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