The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The institute is centered at the Forest Glen Annex, in the Forest Glen Park part of the unincorporated Silver Spring urban area in Maryland just north of Washington, DC, but it is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), headquartered at nearby Fort Detrick, Maryland. At Forest Glen, the WRAIR has shared a laboratory and administrative facility — the Sen Daniel K. Inouye Building, also known as Building 503 — with the Naval Medical Research Center since 1999.
"Building 40" of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center complex, Washington, DC — home to the WRAIR from 1953 to 1999.
The "Daniel Inouye Building" (Building 503), Forest Glen Annex, Silver Spring, Maryland — home to the WRAIR since 1999.
Robert J. T. Joy was an American physician and career Army Medical Corps officer who was an internationally recognized scholar in the field of the history of medicine. He was also a key leader in U.S. Department of Defense Medical Research and Development, and served as one of the key founding staff members of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where he served as the first commandant of students, chair of the department of military medicine, and, after his retirement from military service, first professor and chair of the section of medical history at the university.
The original staff of the Department of Military Medicine and History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, circa 1977. Left to right: Ms. Pat Dubois, LTC John E. Erskine, MSC, USA; CAPT Ann Marie Pease, USAF, MSC; COL Robert J. T. Joy, MC, USA; CPT George S. "Shack" Robinson, MSC, USA; Unknown, USAF; Unknown; Unknown.
The original staff of the Section of Medical History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, circa 1982. Left to Right: Dr. Peter Olch (Capt, USPHS, Ret.), MD, Dr. Robert J. T. Joy (COL, MC, USA, Ret.), MD, Dr. Dale C. Smith, PhD
Dr Robert J. T. Joy, MD (COL MC, US (RET)) teaching from the podium in the USUHS lecture hall that now bears his name