Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez (center), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs of the United States, visits McGowan to receive the inaugural Pitt McGowan Award (2024). Dr. Martínez, a family medicine physician, retired from the Army as a Major General and was the first Latino to head the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, where he directed the Army’s worldwide medical research, acquisition, and logistics program. Also pictured (from left to right): Dr. Chandan K. Sen, Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Anantha Shekhar, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Ann Gleeson, Managing Director of the Center for Military Medicine Research, and Dr. Ron Poropatich, Director of the Center for Military Medicine Research.