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  • Tuesday, May 6th
    13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Thinking Outside the Box - Advanced Medical Support Behind the Enemy Lines
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Oleh Shchepinskyi, COL Dr – Defense Intelligence of Ukraine
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    13:30 - 14:10 East Coast USA Time
    Trauma case reviews with surgeon, doc, medic
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Alex Merkle, PA-C – Logan Health Medical Center, Kalispell MT
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    14:10 - 14:40 East Coast USA Time
    Lessons Learned: Leveraging Medical Support to Strengthen Relationships during a Mass Casualty Event in Post-Global War on Terror Syria
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Joseph G. Maccarelli, Jr., SFC, 18D – 2/3 SFG(A)
    Co-presenter: Thomas J. Mcdonough, Sergeant First Class
    Co-Presenter: Adam O. Burgess, MD – US Army
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    14:10 - 14:40 East Coast USA Time
    Lessons Learned: Leveraging Medical Support to Strengthen Relationships during a Mass Casualty Event in Post-Global War on Terror Syria
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Joseph G. Maccarelli, Jr., SFC, 18D – 2/3 SFG(A)
    Co-presenter: Thomas J. Mcdonough, Sergeant First Class
    Co-Presenter: Adam O. Burgess, MD – US Army
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    14:40 - 15:10 East Coast USA Time
    COLD Blood Protocol (Cold stored O type Low titer Donor) for Medical Support to SOF Training Events in CONUS
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Steven Radloff, CPT/ MD – 1 SFG(A)
    Co-presenter: Chase Danell, MD – Madigan Army Medical Center, JBLM, WA
    Co-Presenter: Justin Vnenchak, SFC – 2-1SFG(A)
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Senior Enlisted Medical Advisors - The Beginning of Giving Back to the SOF Medic Community
    Location: Ballroom B
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    16:00 - 16:20 East Coast USA Time
    Countering the Electronic Warfare Threat: Modeling Electromagnetic Signatures of Portable Ultrasounds Used in Far Forward Environments
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Maya Alexandri, CPT (she/her/hers) – Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Cavazos
    Co-presenter: George Tillman, III, MSG (ret) – Mayo Clinic Military Medicine
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    16:30 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    A Former Ranger Medic’s Lessons Learned from a Mass Casualty in Burma
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Victor Ngo, NRP – Free Burma Rangers
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Tuesday, May 6th
    17:00 - 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Delayed Hemodynamic Collapse Following a Retroperitoneal Gunshot Injury During a Special Operations Training Exercise
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Cara Leonard, CPT/DO – Madigan Army Medical Center
    Co-presenter: Steven Radloff, CPT/ MD – 1 SFG(A)
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    09:10 - 09:30 East Coast USA Time
    Advancing the Combat Medic of the Future
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: John Dominguez, HSGMOR – U.S. Army
    Co-presenter: Timothy Sprunger, CSM – U.S. Army
    Co-Presenter: MSG Jonathan Lopienski
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Special Operations Medicine: Is the Modern Battlefield Ready for the Other 19%
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: DANIEL MCGARRAH, MSG/M.S.S. – Special Operations Command - Central / SOCCENT
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Optimizing the use of Tactical Medications in the Extreme Cold Operational Environment.
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Emily E. Johnston, MD, FACEP, DiMM, FAWM (she/her/hers) – Cascadia Mountain Insitute
    Co-presenter: Wayne Papalski, HMCS/E8 – Naval Special Warfare Group TWO
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Implementing Prolonged Casualty Care During a Chemical Attack Mass Casualty Exercise
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: George Tillman, III, MSG (ret) – Mayo Clinic Military Medicine
    Co-presenter: Matthew Tentis, DMSc, PA-C – Mayo Clinic
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    From Special Operations Medic to Civilian Critical Care Flight Paramedic
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Brock Denis, NR-P, FP-C, SO-ATP – USASOC/CFV Health
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Squaring the Foundations: a discussion on medical training and thought processes for the future fight
    Location: Ballroom B
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Clinical Practice Guidelines performance in Large Scale Combat Operations: perspective from Ukraine
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Jessica Patterson, MD (she/her/hers) – Ethos Solutions
    Co-presenter: Florian Schmitzberger, MD – Ethos Solutions Philanthropic
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Wednesday, May 7th
    16:30 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Air Force Pararescue Experience in Wilderness Medicine: Relevance for the Operational Environment
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Randy Michael, DO, MS, Capt, USAF, MC, FS – United States Air Force
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    08:30 - 09:00 East Coast USA Time
    This Ain’t Your Daddy’s GWOT: Extrapolating Lessons from Ukraine to Ready the Force for Restrained Peer Conflict with China
    Location: 402
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    09:00 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Ethical and Effective Utilization of Cadaveric Tissue in Military Training
    Location: 402
    Presenter: Erik Crouch, SO-ATP – Precision Anatomy | Life For Others Foundation
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    09:20 - 09:40 East Coast USA Time
    Transforming Casualty Care: Leveraging Training Environments to Develop Algorithms for Battlefield Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
    Location: 402
    Presenter: Ericka Stoor-Burning, Dr. (she/her/hers) – Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) / DHA/US Army
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    10:30 - 10:55 East Coast USA Time
    Chronic Multisymptom Illness: the 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline and How it Relates to Care in SOF Personnel (Part 1)
    Location: 402
    Presenter: Robert D. Forsten, COL(ret), DO (he/him/his) – Veterans Health Administration
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    11:00 - 11:30 East Coast USA Time
    Chronic Multisymptom Illness: the 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline and How it Relates to Care in SOF Personnel (Part 2)
    Location: 402
    Presenter: Robert D. Forsten, COL(ret), DO (he/him/his) – Veterans Health Administration
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Thursday, May 8th
    11:30 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Penetrating Neck Trauma in Ukraine
    Location: 402
    Presenter: Tracey A. Parnell, Captain (Retired) , MD (she/her/hers) – Canadian Armed Forces Reserve
    Military Special Operations Forces
  • Friday, May 9th
    08:00 - 08:30 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette: A Former Ranger Medic’s Lessons Learned from a Mass Casualty in Burma
    Location: Ballroom B
    Presenter: Victor Ngo, NRP – Free Burma Rangers
    Military Special Operations Forces