Danielle Pannebaker

Parasitology (Malaria, Chagas, Leishmaniasis), HIV

Lieutenant Commander Danielle Linda Pannebaker was born and raised in southern California. She graduated with Highest Honors from the University of California, Davis in 2010 with a major in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and a minor in Japanese. LCDR Pannebaker pursued a four-year Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) and commissioned into the United States Navy in 2011. She applied the HPSP to earn her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans in 2015.

After graduating from Tulane, she reported to Naval Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) San Diego where she started Internship followed by Residency in Internal Medicine. After graduation, she passed her American Board of Internal Medicine examination and reported to United States U.S. NMRTC Guam. At U.S. NMRTC Guam, she worked as an Internal Medicine physician and provided support to both Internal Medicine inpatient wards, outpatient clinic, and the Intensive Care Unit. LCDR Pannebaker provided hands-on medical support and care to sailors of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the COVID-19 pandemic while it was docked in Guam in 2020. In 2020, she was selected for Infectious Disease Fellowship at NMRTC San Diego and successfully passed her American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease board exam the same year as graduation in 2022. She transferred to U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit SOUTH (NAMRU SOUTH) in Lima, Peru where she worked as the Parasitology Department Head, Occupational Health Officer, directly contributed to seven different publications and was the coordinator of the Peruvian field mission for the Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command’s Military Tropical Medicine Training Program. LCDR Pannebaker is currently stationed at NMRTC Portsmouth as an Infectious Disease physician.

LCDR Pannebaker is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and her personal awards include the Captain Richard M. Keating Fellow Teaching Award in 2021, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals (2020 and 2022), one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medial (2025), and was recognized as Junior Officer of the Year in 2024.