John Mansfield, MD, will begin seeing patients at Longview Urology in July. Longview Urology is located at 625 9th Avenue at Pacific Surgical Institute.
Dr. Mansfield recently completed at 21-year active duty career at the rank of colonel with the U.S. Air Force. He has been stationed in Arizona, Alaska, England, Illinois and California.
- Col. John Mansfield of Longview Urology
From January 2008 to June 2008, he was the sole urologist at the Balad Air Base, Iraq Hospital. During that time, this 50-bed trauma hospital was the busiest Department of Defense trauma hospital. Dr. Mansfield operated on more than 200 patients at Balad, including 100 with various forms of trauma and another 100 with kidney stones.
Kidney stones are the most common non-trauma surgery cases for US troops in Iraq. Dr. Mansfield and the staff were able to keep 96 percent of all kidney stone patients in-country and completely treat their stone diseases.
On the trauma side, 99 percent of U.S. troops that arrived at Balad alive left the hospital for Germany alive. Dr. Mansfield was involved in two mass-casualty events – one with 36 critically injured patients and one with 24 critically injured patients.
He also operated on soldiers from Great Britain, France, Georgia, Iraq, Spain and Russia. During his time at Balad, his unit was routinely rocketed and shelled.
In his most recent job as deputy commander of David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, he volunteered to lead a 60-person, 10-bed hospital to Haiti immediately after the earthquake in January 2010.
They erected their tent hospital at an old landfill and were given three missions.
- Support patient movement to and from the USNS Comfort – a large hospital ship – and, by doing so, support 900 surgical procedures that saved lives and limbs.
- Support local charities. Dr. Mansfield’s unit sent medical teams to various locations where they treated more than 1,500 patients, saved lives and taught life-saving techniques.
- Work with a Columbian military medical team, which included hosting and fully integrating 24 Spanish-speaking Columbian doctors, nurses and technicians into the mission.
Dr. Mansfield and his team ate MREs for 45 consecutive days and lived in what he described as “very harsh conditions.” Overall, they served 2,500 patients during the 47-day mission.
Dr. Mansfield earned his medical degree at the University of Rochester and completed both his general surgery internship and urology residency at the University of Utah. He is board certified by the American Board of Urology.
He and his wife, Pamela, have five children. Dr. Mansfield’s hobbies include woodworking, fishing, boating, and golf.
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