Jason Heaton MD

Education

Indiana University School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Heaton is a native of Shelbyville Indiana. He completed his undergraduate
degree at DePauw University followed by his medical degree at Indiana University
School of Medicine on the Health Professions Scholarship Program.

His Naval career began with his OBGYN residency at Naval Medical Center
Portsmouth, VA. He was then assigned to the National Capital Consortium in
Bethesda, MD where he served as faculty at the Uniformed Services University
and on-site medical student clerkship director. After a few years in private practice
in Valparaiso IN, he returned to the Navy to pursue academic medicine and was
stationed at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. While there he served as the on-
site medical student clinical clerkship director, Transitional Year Program Director,
Gynecology Division Head, Assistant Department Head of OBGYN, Chair of
OBGYN residency Clinical Competency Committee, and Chair of the Medical
Staff. In addition, he deployed to Camp Arifjan Kuwait in support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. He spent the last year of his naval career opening a birthing center
for the 12,000 Marines and their families stationed in Iwakuni Japan. He finished
twenty-three years of military service as a Navy captain on 1 October 2021. He currently
serves as the Uniformed Services University, Gynecologic Surgery and Obstetrics on-site clinical clerkship director
at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, CA.

Dr. Heaton’s clinical interests include medical education, simulation training,
operative vaginal delivery, and patient safety/quality. He has enjoyed being an
ACOG section officer and currently serves on the ACOG OB Clinical Practice
Guidelines Committee as well an ABOG oral board examiner.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Staff Obstetrician and Gynecologist 2020-2021 Medical Director, Maternal Infant Care Center Iwakuni, Japan

Teaching Staff Obstetrician and Gynecologist 2007-2020 Naval Medical Center San Diego San Diego, CA

Transitional Year Residency Program Director 2017-2020 Naval Medical Center San Diego San Diego, CA

Chair of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff 2013-2015 Naval Medical Center San Diego San Diego, CA

Department Head, Obstetrician and Gynecologist 2009 Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

Gynecologic Division Head 2008-2009 Naval Medical Center San Diego San Diego, CA

Representative Bibliography

Lutgendorf MA, Spalding C, Drake E, Spence D, Heaton J, Morocco K. Multidisciplinary In Situ Simulation-Based Training as a Postpartum Hemorrhage Quality Improvement Project. Military Medicine. 2017 Mar; 182: 1762-66.

Walton RB, Shaffer S, Heaton J. Group Prenatal Care Outcomes in a Military Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Military Medicine 2015 Jul; 180: 825-829.

Deering MA, Heller J, McGaha K, Heaton J, Satin AJ. Patients presenting with birth plans in a military tertiary care hospital: A descriptive study of plans and outcomes. Military Medicine. 2006 Aug; 171(8): 778-80.

Nalesnik SW, Heaton JO, Olsen CH, Haffner WHJ, Zahn CM. Incorporating problem- based learning into an obstetrics/gynecology clerkship: impact on student satisfaction and grades. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004; 190: 1375-1381.

Shippey S, Heaton JO, Macri C, Macedonia C. Intestinal Helminthes Infestation in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review. Military Medicine. 2002 Nov; 167(11): 954-5.

Farley J, Heaton J, O’Boyle JD. Adenocarcinoma of Unknown Primary Site presenting as an isolated retroperitoneal mass and Trousseau’s Syndrome. Military Medicine. 2001 Sep; 166(9): 831-2.

Farley J, O’Boyle JD, Heaton JO, Remmenga S. Extraosseous Ewing Sarcoma of the Vagina. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2000; 96: 832-33.

Forsnes EV, Eggelston MK, Heaton JO. Enterovesical Fistula Complicating Pregnancy A Case Report. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine. 1999; Mar 44 (3): 297-8.

Forsnes EV, Heaton JO, Bowen E. Intrauterine Listeria Infection of the Nonpresenting Twin. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1998; 92:715.