Veterinarian chosen to lead military hospital

Col. Stephanie Mont (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)

Col. Stephanie Mont was recently named the next commander of Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.

WAMC is one of the flagship hospitals of U.S. Army Medicine and the Defense Health Agency. It provides health care to about 200,000 individuals, from active-duty service men and women to retirees to their families.

Fort Liberty, formerly known as Fort Bragg, is home to the Army's Airborne and Special Operations Forces. By population, it is the largest Army installation in the world, home to nearly 10% of the Army's active forces, according to its website.

After Col. Mont received her veterinary degree in 2001 from Texas A&M University, she joined the Army as a Veterinary Corps officer.

She completed her master's in public health in 2008 at the University of Hawaii and received a master's in strategic studies from the Army War College in 2020. Col. Mont is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and was a member of the 2014-15 AVMA Future Leaders class.

From 2017-20, Col. Mont served as the command veterinarian and chief of future medical operations at U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany. There, she helped to integrate One Health concepts into their work.

Col. Mont was the first veterinary preventive medicine officer to serve as director of the Department of Defense's LTC Daniel E. Holland Military Working Dog Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Prior to her most recent appointment, she served as commander of Public Health Command-West at Joint Base San Antonio, which provides regular veterinary service support, environmental health and industrial hygiene support, entomology consultation, and other public health mission support across the U.S.

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