Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi
Executive Officer
CAPT Javier Agraz was born in Whittier, California. He studied primary and secondary schools abroad and hence is fluent in verbal and written Spanish. He graduated from the University of the Pacific in Northern California with an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Behavioral Psychology/Pre-med in 1995. He then attended Saint Louis University School of Medicine where he was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree in 2005 shortly thereafter joined the Navy and attended Officer Indoctrination School.
He completed his postgraduate medical education in 2009, which included an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. He is board certified in Internal Medicine.
CAPT Agraz has a broad record of accomplishments of Operational Military and Outside the Continental United States assignments, an Afghanistan deployment, and he served as the Senior Medical Officer (SMO) of Joint Task Force (JTF), Guantanamo.
Reporting to Guam in 2011, CAPT Agraz served as the Department Head and Staff Physician in the Navy’s highest acuity Intensive Care Unit. In 2012, he served as the Deputy Director of Medical Services and the only Internist at Kandahar Role 3, Afghanistan. He was also the Department Head and Urgent Care Integration Chair at Naval Hospital Bremerton in 2014. His operational leadership experience also includes SMO and Department Head of the Health Services Department on board the USS Emory S. Land, a major command of 860 Sailors and 180 Civilian Mariners, and the General Medical Officer of the USS Essex (LHD2). He is the plank owner of the Expeditionary Medicine Directorate at NMRTC Rota that established and strengthened partnerships with the Spanish Armada, Spanish Medical Emergency Network, local Alzheimer center and three local hospitals in 2019. He served, as the milestone-appointed, Chief Medical Officer of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Corpus Christi from September 2022 to March 2025 with a successful deployment as the SMO of Joint Medical Group/JTF Guantanamo from November 2023 to August 2024.
CAPT Agraz was competitively selected as the SMO for the Cuttlass Express 2021, U.S. Naval Forces Africa led, which provided oversight of all domain exercises in East Africa. He was then competitively selected as the SMO for Obangame Express 2022, a 32-nation exercise designed to improve regional cooperation in maritime domain awareness, information-sharing practices, and tactical interdiction expertise.
His personal awards include Meritorious Service Medals (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals (five awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, as well as various unit and campaign awards.