CDR Richard J. Bly, FACHE, is officer in charge, U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit, Sasebo, Japan.

Board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow, CDR Bly served as the ACHE Regent for Navy from 2023 to 2025 and on various ACHE committees.

Prior to his current role, CDR Bly served the Department of Defense at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Office of the Joint Staff Surgeon, at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., from 2021 to 2025. He also served as deputy fleet surgeon and fleet medical planner for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, from 2017 to 2020, surgical company commander, 1st Medical Battalion, from 2015 to 2017, and officer in charge of medical logistics in Southern Afghanistan, from 2012 to 2013. CDR Bly also serves as an adjunct professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

CDR Bly has held several leadership positions, including serving as chair of the speaker committee for the Lewis E. Angelo Professional Symposium in 2022, and co-founding the ACHE Navy Fellow Accelerator Program in 2020.

CDR Bly received the Service Award through ACHE’s Recognition Program in 2025. He was the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Action Officer of the Year in 2023.

CDR Bly earned a Master of Health Administration and a Master of Business Administration from Baylor University. He also earned a Master of Arts from the U.S. Naval War College, a graduate diploma from Expeditionary Warfare School at the U.S. Marine Corps University and a Bachelor of Science from The George Washington University.