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Part of IDGA’s Military Health Week medical technology and
(March 29- April 2, 2010) - Two summits and R&D from these
TBI/Psychological Health Master Class, all in one location! unparalleled speakers:
Col Donald L. Noah, USAF
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
IDGA’s Military Medical Technology Summit delivers: of Defense for Force Health
Protection and Readiness
• The most up-to-date information on medical technologies
for Level 1 to CONUS COL Norvell V. Coots USA,
MC, MD, MSS, FAAD
• Current programs in battlefield clinical informatics Commander, Walter Reed Health Care
• Insight into the latest R&D in amputation care and System ,Walter Reed Army Medical Center
prosthetics COL Joseph F. McKeon, USA, MC, MD, MPH,
• Special focus on the current technologies and R&D for Commander, US Army Aeromedical Research Lab
TBI / psychological health, including virtual reality therapy
LTC William Geesey, USA
• Enhanced aviation and combat life support Product Manager, Medical Communications for Combat
equipment Casualty Care (MC4), U.S. Army
Dr. Wayman Wendell Cheatham, MD, FACE
Special Assistant to the Surgeon General for Medical Research,
Sponsors: Director, Navy Medical Research & Development Center & Director,
Navy Clinical Investigation Programs, Bureau of Medicine & Surgery
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MILITARY IDGA’s Military Medical Technology
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stakeholders and decision makers involved
in the military and government healthcare
MEDICAL IT sector. The summit is designed as a
forum where decision makers and end
users can come together to share their
knowledge, debate the issues at hand,
learn from their peers, and forge solutions
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for their respective challenges. (Non
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audience will be comprised of senior level
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attendees will include those with the
following responsibilities:
• Tactical Commanders
• Chief Medical and Technology Officers
Dear Colleague, • Command Surgeons
• Command Surgeons and Medics
• Directors of Force Health Protection
With each new year of continuous
operations in the asymmetric envi • Directors of medical R & D
comes new lessons learned, new adva ronments of OIF/OEF • Senior Engineers
ncements made in the military heal
community, and new challenges for thcare
the future. Medical advancements
training, and technology are help in treatment,
ing to improve the level of care our
receive from Level 1 to CONUS. warriors can
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This summit is designed to high The Institute for Defense
light the latest technologies that
teams can utilize to improve thei our medical & Government
r quality of care. While our med Advancement (IDGA) is a
continuously strives for improvemen ical community
ts in their clinical capabilities, their non-partisan information based
the best of care is often depend capacity to provide organization dedicated to the promotion of
ant on having the right equipm
in order to properly prevent, diagnose ent and technology innovative ideas in public service and
, and treat our wounded warfighters. defense. We bring together speaker panels
comprised of military and government
Current R&D efforts are transformin professionals while attracting delegates
g the medical community, and lead
advancements in medical are from ing to with decision-making power from military,
Level1 to CONUS. As part of our Milit
which includes the Battlefield Hea ary Health Week, government and defense industries. For
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in order to discuss the current tech ly clinical aspects
nologies, tools and equipment, and
in the care of our warfighters. Som R&D efforts that aid
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3. TBI/ Psychological Health Master Class TBI/ Psychological Health Master Class
Wednesday March 31, 2010
This in depth and interactive focus day will examine the latest issues, best practices and next-generation treatments and technology surrounding the diagnosis
and treatment of traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and general psychological health for the battlefield warfighter. Choose from two tracks: one focusing on the
clinical aspects of TBI and psychological health to earn continuing education credits, and the other on the technology and R&D involved in preventing,
diagnosing, and treating TBI and PTSD.
7:30 am - 8:00 am Registration and Coffee
8:00 am - 9:30 am Joint Opening Session: The Next Generation in Psychological Health Treatment
Hear from Wilford Hall Medical Center’s new clinic to treat patients who suffer therapy, cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure treatments, in
from post traumatic stress disorder. The PTSD Clinic offers evidence based addition to the new virtual modalities.
treatments and a virtual reality program to help Airmen returning from combat.
The Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, using a computer simulated Virtual Iraq Session Leader:
and Virtual Afghanistan, allows Airmen to interact and recreate a traumatic Col Gerald W Talcott, Col, USAF, BSC, Chair, Department of Behavioral
scene and recall sights, sounds, smells, thoughts and feelings. The uniqueness Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Center
of the clinic lies in the fact that it offers evidence-based cognitive behavioral
Track 1: Clinical Focus TRACK 2: Technological and R&D Focus
9:45am-11:45am Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the OEF/OIF conflicts 9:45am-11:45am Panel Discussion on mTBI Research and Evaluation of
TBI has been referred to as the “signature injury” of the OEF/OIF conflict. In many mTBI Pre/Post deployment
respects it differs from TBIs seen in the civilian environment, as many of these TBIs Medical device manufacturer Neuro Kinetics Inc. will sponsor a panel discussion of
are related to blast exposure. There are a number of controversies surrounding the military medical specialists on new techniques for diagnoses and treatment of mild
appropriate diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of returning veterans with known traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory
or suspected TBI, ranging from mechanism of injury to prognosis for long-term (USAARL) at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and three other military medical facilities currently
outcome. This discussion will review some of the neuroscientific and medical issues are collaborating in a comprehensive research project, using Neuro Kinetics’ I-Portal®
being actively discussed in the TBI field, as well as patient management challenges NOTC (Neuro-Otologic Test Center) system to evaluate and characterize vestibular,
being faced by euron-clinicians who treat returning veterans. auditory and oculomotor conditions in soldiers suffering from hard-to-detect mTBI as a
result of blast exposure. In addition to the I-Portal NOTC system, other Neuro Kinetics
What will be Covered: products include its I-Portal® VNG (Video Nystagmography) system and I-Portal® VOG
• Current controversies in TBI, e.g. How do blasts injure the brain?
• Is it mild TBI or PTSD or both?
(Video Oculography) system. The company will demonstrate its equipment and detail
• Diagnostic and treatment approaches to TBI sequelae such as headache, epilepsy,
the battery of tests available.
and cognitive deficits What you will learn:
• Hear about new techniques for diagnoses and treatment of mTBI
How you will Benefit: • Update on current research projects
• You will understand important diagnostic issues in TBI medicine and how it relates
to the OEF/OIF conflicts. How you will benefit:
• You will be able to discuss treatments for TBI that are derived from current clinical • Learn in an interactive forum from leading members of the medical community
practice guidelines and new research advances • Become familiar with current technologies that can aide in the diagnosis of mTBI
Gary M. Abrams, MD, Rehabilitation Section Chief, San Francisco VA, Panel members:
Medical Center; Department of Neurology, University of California, San Dr. Melida Hill, Primary Investigator for USAARL (including Ft. Rucker, Ft.
Francisco Campbell, Tripler Army Medical, Walter Reed Army Medical)
Col. Dr. Michael Hoffer, USN, Navy San Diego Medical Center, Department
Chair of Otolaryngology, Otology / Neurology
See website for additional speakers!
11:45am- 1:00pm LUNCH 11:45am- 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00pm- 3:00pm Persistent Problems after Traumatic Brain 1:00pm- 3:00pm Preventative Equipment in Theater to Reduce Blast
Injury: The Need for Long-Term Follow-Up and Coordinated Injuries
Care Convoys across the desert, patrolling the waters, keeping guard at base and surveying
Now that national attention is being paid to TBI disorders in our troops, the airspace – today’s warfighters are in need of innovative military ballistic helmet pads to
actual mechanism of TBI injury is still little understood. Current research mitigate, cushion, and absorb blasts in the battlefield. By limiting the blast waves of
models suggest TBI from blast injuries to be a significantly different injury exploding IED's, absorbing the shock of high speed boats, and making sure that head
than that caused by actual trauma to the skull. Understand how these to toe personal gear protects and fits, SKYDEX limits the blast force transmitted to the
important differences will affect the national treatment and research into occupants by as much as 71%. By varying SKYDEX’s twin hemispheres – either in
this debilitating condition. Also, discover how the TBI patients’ cognitive and layout, plastic composition, the amount of plastic used or spacing between the hemis,
emotional deficits may decrease their capacity and initiative to seek the functionality of this life-saving equipment can be altered for the specific job it has
appropriate care on their own. to perform.
What will be Covered: What you will learn:
• Prevalence of common issues after TBI • Hear about how advanced equipment technologies for use in the battlefield can
• How can we identify issues related with TBI decrease the force of blasts
• Learn about recent trials that have shown a mitigation of blast force by 71%
How you will Benefit:
• You will be familiarized with common issues after TBI How you will benefit:
• You will learn about defining TBI from other blast injuries • Become knowledgeable on the latest equipment that can be fielded for protection
from blast injuries
Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD, Chief, PM&R Service, VA Boston Healthcare, • Discuss in an interactive forum the technology and research behind this latest
System Healthcare System technology
Peter Foley, Chief Technology Officer, SKYDEX
3:15- 5:00pm
Pre- and Post- Deployment TBI Screening
It is estimated that one in five soldiers on active deployment for a year’s deployment is • Mechanisms for implementing large scale screening as an effective force
at risk for TBI. The Ft. Carson Soldier Readiness center has incorporated this knowledge management tool
into their comprehensive approach to screening both pre- and post- deployment in the
ongoing investigation into the best ways to identify TBI and those at risk for TBI. Caring How you will benefit:
• Explain the benefits of assessing how a soldier is "ready" not just "healthy" or
for our soldiers should be along a continuum, addressing the needs of those who fall
somewhere in between "healthy" and "casualty.” "casualty"
• Compare current and emerging TBI screening models
What will be covered: • Describe how to caregivers for utilizing all screening guidelines effectively
• Importance of both pre- and post- deployment screening for soldier readiness
COL Heidi Terrio, USA, MD, MC, MPH, Chief, Deployment Health, Ft.
• Guidelines for evaluating the severity of combat stress injuries in individuals
Carson, CO
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4. Main Day Summit One Main Day Summit Two
Thursday, April 1, 2010 Friday, April 2, 2010
7:15 Registration and Coffee 7:15 Registration and Coffee
7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:00 Update on Meeting the Medical Technology 8:00 Cutting Edge Medical Technology and R&D efforts from the
Morning
Morning
Keynote
Keynote
Challenges of Force Health Protection Walter Reed Health Care System
Col Donald L Noah, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of COL Norvell V. Coots USA, MC, MD, MSS, FAAD, Commander,
Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness Walter Reed Health Care System, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
8:45 MC4 – Enabling Improved Situational Awareness & 8:45 Current R&D in Limb Salvage and Rehabilitation
Continuity of Care on the Battlefield •
Inaccuracy of standardized severity scores for limb salvage
•
Challenges & lessons learned: Integrating, fielding, training & •
Current case studies
MC4 Focus
supporting the DoD’s tactical medical recording systems MAJ Joseph Hsu, USA, MD, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
•
Medical command and control (C2) uses, impact and way
forward via MC4 9:30 Networking and Refreshment Break
LTC William E. Geesey, Product Manager, Medical
Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), U.S. Army 10:15 Effects of Using Human Patient Simulator (HPS) versus a
CD-ROM on Cognition and Critical Thinking Relative to
CD-ROM teaching
Simulation vs
9:30 Networking and Refreshment Break Combat Care
•
Results of the recent study
10:15 Update on New Technology for Combat Casualty •
Possible impact on the choice of teaching aids and strategies for lower-
Care level and higher-level cognition
COL Dallas C. Hack, USA, M.D., Director, US Army Combat COL (Ret) Don Johnson, USAFR, PhD, Director of Research, US
Casualty Care Research Program Chair, Joint Technology Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing, Ft. Sam Houston
Coordinating Group 6 (Combat Casualty Care) US Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command 11:00 What (if any) Is the Role for Automated Care On The
Battlefield
11:00 Virtual Therapy and Telehealth in the Air Force •
Towards the Cybernetic Medic: Radical New Technology for Combat
•
Update on current VR therapy initiatives Casualty Care
•
Advances in telehealth •
Understand the critical care technology gap on the current battlefield
LtCol Timothy Lacy, USAF, MC, Chief, Telehealth, Air Force •
Describe the systems approach to augmenting medic and provider
Medical Support Agency capabilities on the battlefield
COL Leopoldo C. Cancio, USA, MD, MC, US Army Combat Critical
11:45 Remote Patient Monitoring: Deployed Military and Care Engineering Program, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Beyond
James J. DelloStritto, Principal Researcher, Blue Highway, 11:45 Advancements in Prosthetics and Amputee
LLC Rehabilitation Technologies from WRAMC
•
Update on Clinical techniques in Amputation
12:30 LUNCH •
Lessons learned in rehabilitation technologies
COL Paul F. Pasquina, USA, M.D., Chief, Integrated Department
1:45 Enhanced Aviation and Combat Life Support of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Walter Reed Army Medical
Afternoon
Equipment: Medical technology for Level 1 Center, National Naval Medical Center
keynote
MEDEVAC teams
COL Joseph F. McKeon, MC, MD, MPH 12:30 LUNCH
Commander, US Army Aeromedical Research Lab
1:30 Navy Medicine Research Overview
keynote: Navy
Afternoon
2:30 Use of Medical Equipment in the Military Dr. Wayman Wendell Cheatham, MD, FACE
Aeromedical Environment: Challenges and Design Special Assistant to the Surgeon General for Medical Research,
Considerations Director, Navy Medical Research & Development Center & Director,
•
Military airworthiness and environmental test requirements for Navy Clinical Investigation Programs, Bureau of Medicine & Surgery
medical carry-on equipment.
•
Examples of challenges in meeting these requirements 2:15 Chest Pain Evaluation Down Range - A Modern Cost
•
Equipment design considerations for use in the helicopter Savings Approach
environment •
Review the burden of cardiovascular disease in the deployed setting
Khalid Barazanji, Ph.D. Chief, Airworthiness Certification •
Introduce the application of cutting edge technology to reduce
and Evaluation Branch, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research aeromedical evacuations
Laboratory, Ft. Rucker, AL •
Understand the logistical implications of instituting advanced cardiac
imaging within the AOR
3:15 Networking and Refreshment Break Maj Kevin Steel, USAF, MC, DO, Chief, Advanced Cardiac Imaging,
Department of Cardiology San Antonio Military Medical Center
4:00 The Future Of Battlefield Health Informatics
•
Information flow from Theater to the Clinical Data Repository- 3:00 Networking and Refreshment Break
•
Information sharing between the DoD and VA
•
What’s next 3:45 Wound Biomarkers: High Energy Penetrating War Injuries
Rick Barnhill, PM, Clinical Informatics, Western Regional •
Overview of high energy extremity injuries
Wound Care R&D
Medical Command, Madigan Army Medical Center •
Hyper-inflammatory response and the mechanism of wound failure
•
Predictive models of wound closure
4:45 Keynote Session CDR Eric Elster, USN, MC, FACS, Combat Casualty Care, Naval
Keynote
Closing
Dr. Edward F. Gabriele, Special Assistant to the Navy Medical Research Center & Department of Surgery NNMC
Surgeon General for Ethics & Professional Integrity, BUMED Bethesda & Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services
University
5:30 End of Day One
4:30 End of Summit
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12th Battlefield
Healthcare
Summit!
MILITARY
MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
TM
The Next Generation of Treatment, Training, and Technology
March 31 - April 2, 2010 | Sheraton Premiere at Tysons
Corner Hotel, Vienna, VA