Chief medical officer

Chief Medical Officer

Billet Description

The chief medical officer is a senior staff-level position, typically held by a lieutenant commander or commander who is a Doctor of Medicine with surgical skills.

Typical ranks

Chief medical officers have been seen with a variety of ranks. They can hold any rank in the lieutenant grades, but are quite often seen as lieutenant commanders. Chief medical officers are eligible to take the Bridge Officer's Test for promotion to full commander. At this point, they are considered capable of assuming command of a starship.

Specific duties

CMOs aboard a starship or starbase are directly in charge of the sickbay or infirmary, commanding medical department personnel and activities. The CMOs' primary duties are the oversight and maintenance of the overall health and physical fitness of crew and passengers.

Officers likely to be assigned as the CMO over long-duration missions of exploration, have scientific training in disciplines outside of medicine, allowing them to take on major, extended research projects; or to better participate in a wider variety of encounters.

Medical authority

In addition to the normal duties of an officer, the CMO also has the power to relieve an officer or crewman, including a superior one, of their duties if in the officer's professional judgment, he or she is medically unfit. Typically, the CMO is expected to have the support of a senior command officer or detailed medical documentation to justify this course of action.

The CMO does also seem to have the authority to order officers to do things that would be beneficent to their health, like sleeping.

Current CMO Billets/Postings

Gold Fleet

• Lieutenant Commander Dr. Diamantina De'Leon, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Circe NCC-27000
• Lieutenant Dr. Naomi Strayer, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Odysseus NCC-25034
• Commander Dr. Jonathan Asher, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Valhalla NCC-18000

Blue Fleet

• Lieutenant Commander Dr. Dugan Dohan, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Nova NCC-1776-A
• Lieutenant Commander Dr. Claus Terkim, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Persephone NCC-25013-A
• Lieutenant Dr. Zor Kon, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Excalibur NCC-1844-B
• Lieutenant Dr. Kael Aravek, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Fearless NX - 56000
• Lieutenant Dr. Ekatarina Morozov, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Yorktown NCC-1717-F

Silver Fleet

• Lieutenant Commander Lorena Mendoza, M.D., chief medical officer, Starbase Saikai
• Lieutenant Commander Sorbec Tm'Peck, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Nebula NCC-2001
• Lieutenant Kayla Williams, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Amberjack NCC-23219
• Lieutenant Julianne Chandler, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Andromeda NCC-11027-A
• Lieutenant Turzen Kur, M.D., chief medical officer, USS Kirov NCC-28000

Assistant CMO

The Assistant CMO serves the medical department equivalent of the executive officer, as head of Sickbay and the medical department in the absence of the CMO.

Current Assistant CMO Billets/Postings

• Ensign Vixen Moore, Acting Assistant CMO, U.S.S. Valhalla (NCC-18000)