Capt. Eugene M. de Lara, USN (Ret)

Committees: Membership, MOAA Foundation Board of Directors

Capt. Eugene M. de Lara, USN (Ret)

Capt. Eugene M. de Lara, USN (Ret), is a Navy veteran with over 23 years of active duty service as a Medical Service Corps Officer, rising to the rank of captain before retiring in 2013. He received his bachelor’s degree from Fisk University, a doctorate in Pharmacy from Mercer University, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Webster University.

 

During his military career, he served in a variety of leadership roles in pharmacy, health care administration, and medical logistics, with multiple operational and humanitarian deployments. His military staff assignments include the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness.

 

Following his retirement, he joined the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System as the chief of Pharmacy Services, overseeing a $90 million operation that serves approximately 55,000 veterans throughout Maryland. Since 2016, he has volunteered as an executive committee member of the foundation board of directors at Ascension Health, St. Agnes Hospital.

Career Highlights

  • Director of Pharmacy for the National Naval Medical Center, “The President’s Hospital,” now renamed the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, responsible for the safe, efficient, and cost-effective management at this world-renowned health care institution.
  • Deployed to Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as the chief of Medical Logistics, in efforts to rebuild the health care infrastructure and pharmaceutical supply chain throughout Iraq.
  • Director of Clinical Support Services aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) during 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief operations in New Orleans.

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