Bruce Lindsley Gillingham (born April 16, 1959) is a United States Navy rear admiral and orthopedic surgeon who serves as the 39th surgeon general of the United States Navy. As surgeon general, Gillingham is dual-hatted as the 43rd chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and is responsible to the United States Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and director of the Defense Health Agency for all health and medical matters pertaining to the Navy and Marine Corps. He assumed his present assignment on November 1, 2019.