Steven Libutti - Uniformed Service

Uniformed Service

In June 1995, Libutti was commissioned a Lieutenant (O-3) in the Reserve Corps of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and called to extended active duty. Libutti was assigned as a Clinical Associate in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. In January 1996, he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and in July 1996, became a Clinical Investigator. He served in this capacity until July 1999, when he was promoted to Commander and Senior Clinical Investigator. In January 2000, Libutti completed his tour of active duty and inactivated, retaining his commission in the Inactive Reserve Corps. In September 2005, Libutti was recalled to active duty and deployed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in support of hurricane relief efforts for hurricane Katrina. He was assigned as the Incident Commander for the LSU Field House SNS (formerly the PMAC field hospital). At the completion of this short tour, he once again inactivated. He was recalled again to a short tour of active duty in August 2006, and was promoted to Captain (O-6). In January 2007, Libutti was recalled to an intermittent short tour of active duty in support of an Army backfill request and detailed to the Department of Defense in the Department of Surgery of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In July 2007, Libutti was elected to the Board of Directors of the Commissioned Officers Association of the USPHS and named a Trustee of the Commissioned Officers Foundation of the USPHS. Libutti is also a member of the Reserve Officers Association, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and the Military Officers Association of America.