Rear Adm. Matthew Case currently serves as the acting Deputy Director of the Defense Health Agency. He supports the DHA Director in leading a joint, integrated Combat Support Agency enabling the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Commands in both peacetime and wartime.
Prior to becoming the acting Deputy Director, he was the acting Assistant Director, Health Care Administration, DHA. He also served as the Naval Medical Forces Atlantic Commander and the DHA Defense Health Network—Atlantic Director, both in Portsmouth, Va.
Case served operationally as Plans, Operations, and Medical Intelligence Officer with II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and U.S. Naval Forces Europe/U.S. Sixth Fleet. In 2007, he served on an Individual Augmentee tour to Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, Djibouti and again in 2012 with 1st Marine Logistics Group, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
During his ashore tours, Case served in various positions throughout Navy Medicine, including Administrative Officer to the Director of Clinical Services at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Director for Administration at Naval Ambulatory Care Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Naval Health Clinic Annapolis, Maryland; Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. He has also served as the Placement Officer and Assistant Branch Head, Medical Officer Assignment at Navy Personnel Command, and Executive Officer, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. In 2018, he assumed command of Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida. During this assignment he became the first Naval Medical Readiness Training Command Commander and DHA MTF Director. Following his command tour in 2020, he served as the Executive Assistant to the Surgeon General, U.S. Navy, and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Falls Church, Virginia.
His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (six awards), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards), as well as the Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer qualification and Fleet Marine Force Qualified Officer designation. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and was selected for the 2012 American Hospital Association’s Federal Health Care Executive Special Achievement Award.
Case, a native of Nottingham, New Hampshire, was a direct accession and commissioned in 1994. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1989 and earned a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration in 1993.
