Dr. Elizabeth Tateoka

About Dr. Elizabeth Tateoka

The story behind White Onyx.

Dr. Elizabeth Tateoka graduated with her Doctorate as an Adult-Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with an additional certificate in Geriatric Medicine from the University of Utah in 2016. She has extensive experience in hospital medicine, perioperative medicine, and vascular access, and she has worked at various hospitals around the country. Prior to becoming a Nurse Practitioner, she graduated with her Bachelor’s in Biology in 2006 and completed a second Bachelor’s in Nursing in 2008.

Following her nursing graduation, she was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy and served as an active-duty nurse for five years. She began her active-duty nursing career as a medical-surgical nurse in Jacksonville, FL, and was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2009, nine months after completing Officer School, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Upon returning, she transitioned into the Emergency Department and deployed again two years later to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. She deployed with the Marines as an ER/Trauma nurse in a Shock-Trauma Platoon & Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team in the Sangin River Valley during 2012-2013, again in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Upon her return and after completing her initial active duty service, she transitioned to the Navy Reserve. She deployed a third time in 2019 to Kuwait in support of the Combined Joint Task Force, Operation Inherent Resolve, and served as the Chief of Clinical Operations for Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.

She spent considerable time “in-country” actively supporting the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coalition medical units whose missions ranged from point-of-injury care to hospital-level capabilities. She has served in various operational, hospital, and expeditionary units in the reserves and continues to serve as a Commander in the United States Navy Reserve.