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  • Thursday, May 8, 2025
  • 07:00 – 08:00 East Coast USA Time
    Continental Breakfast
  • 08:00 – 08:30 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette
  • 08:30 – 08:55 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - Welcome, Track Intro & Committee Overview
  • 08:30 – 09:00 East Coast USA Time
    Survival Data from a High-Trauma, Prolonged Care, Resource-limited Trauma System.
  • 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
  • 08:30 – 09:00 East Coast USA Time
    United Centers of Excellence: Building a Future for TBI Recovery
  • 08:30 – 10:15 East Coast USA Time
    Limited Resource Rescue - S1
  • 08:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Austere Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Evaluation: A Protocoled Approach
  • 08:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Cranial Nerve Function Assessment for Early Detection of Nerve Dysfunction
  • 08:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Dental Skills Lab - S2
  • 08:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Special Operations Forces Whole Blood Program, Optimizing Your Program.
  • 08:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Virtual Reality Training for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)‎ S1
  • 08:30 – 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Filling the Trauma Surgical Training Gap: Utilizing Dead Porcine Tissue for Damage Control Resuscitation and Surgery Skill Maintenance in a Low Resource Environment
  • 08:55 – 09:15 East Coast USA Time
    One Surgeons Experience With the Resistance
  • 09:00 – 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Ethical and Effective Utilization of Cadaveric Tissue in Military Training
  • 09:00 – 09:30 East Coast USA Time
    Advancing Traumatic Brain Injury Evaluation in Prolonged Casualty Care. Development and Implementation of the Tactical MACE Exam
  • 09:00 – 09:30 East Coast USA Time
    Feasible Ultrasound Training for Combat Medics Providing Mass Casualty and Prolonged Casualty Care
  • 09:15 – 09:35 East Coast USA Time
    Beyond Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Medical Support to Irregular Warfare in the Pacific
  • 09:20 – 09:40 East Coast USA Time
    Transforming Casualty Care: Leveraging Training Environments to Develop Algorithms for Battlefield Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
  • 09:30 – 09:50 East Coast USA Time
    Austere Trauma Resuscitation in Large Scale Combat Operations
  • 09:35 – 09:55 East Coast USA Time
    Special Interest group for Irregular WarfaRe Medicine (SIIWRM)
  • 10:00 – 10:30 East Coast USA Time
    Morning Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:20 – 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    Post-tourniquet lessons learned
  • 10:30 – 10:50 East Coast USA Time
    PFC Update: Training Non-Medics in Prolonged Filed Care in Preparation of Irregular Warfare
  • 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)
  • 10:30 – 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    Clinical and Operational Considerations for Individualized Return to Duty Post-Concussion
  • 10:30 – 12:15 East Coast USA Time
    Limited Resource Rescue - S2
  • 10:50 – 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    Training in NATO SOFCOM
  • 11:00 – 11:15 East Coast USA Time
    Allied Views on MSIW Training
  • 11:00 – 11:20 East Coast USA Time
    Chest Decompression for the Forward Medic: When, How, and the Future
  • 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)
  • 11:00 – 11:30 East Coast USA Time
    The Application of Performance Nutrition in the Management of Military TBIs and Concussions
  • 11:15 – 11:35 East Coast USA Time
    Ridge Healer: Medical Lessons Learned from Multinational Irregular Warfare Surgical Exercise
  • 11:20 – 11:50 East Coast USA Time
    “Unconventional surgical decision-making during far forward deployments”
  • 11:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Penetrating Neck Trauma in Ukraine
  • 11:30 – 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Proposing a Patient-Centered Approach to Understanding TBI Outcomes Through a Trauma Informed Research Design Evaluating Mental Health Treatment Histories
  • 11:35 – 11:45 East Coast USA Time
    Lessons Learned in NATO
  • 12:00 – 13:00 East Coast USA Time
    Lunch Break with Exhibitors
  • 12:30 – 13:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advancing Low Burden Respiratory Protection for the Warfighter
  • 12:30 – 18:00 East Coast USA Time
    The Application of Performance Nutrition in the Management of Military TBIs and Concussions
  • 13:00 – 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Building a medical ecosystem to support warfighter and civilian health.
  • 13:00 – 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Influence of Traumatic Brain Injury History, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Fatigue on Neurobehavioral Symptoms and Operational Performance in a Training Environment
  • 13:00 – 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Redefining Readiness: Moving Past GWOT-Era Training Practices
  • 13:00 – 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    SOF to SOM Med School
  • 13:00 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Auricular Acupuncture First Principles for Special Operations and Tactical Law Enforcement Medical Personnel - S1
  • 13:00 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Tactical Care for Fire-As-A-Weapon Burns - S1
  • 13:00 – 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Virtual Reality Training for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)‎ S2
  • 13:00 – 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Cranial Nerve Function Assessment for Early Detection of Nerve Dysfunction - S2
  • 13:00 – 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Joint Hyperbaric Medical Officer and Technician Sustainment Training
  • 13:00 – 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Special Operations Forces Whole Blood Program, Optimizing Your Program.
  • 13:05 – 13:25 East Coast USA Time
    Medical Intelligence in Support of Irregular Warfare
  • 13:20 – 13:40 East Coast USA Time
    Closing Prolonged Critical Care Gaps in Special Operations Medicine with Allies and Partners: Global Health Research Interoperability Program Highlighting Approaches Needed for Defense Support
  • 13:25 – 13:45 East Coast USA Time
    Non Profits Within the Global SOF Network
  • 13:30 – 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Surgical Training for Physician Assistants and their Potential Impact
  • 13:30 – 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Blast Waves to Brain Waves: Pioneering Care for SOF Brain Health
  • 13:30 – 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Creation of a Mobile O2 Transport Requirements (MOTR) application for aeromedical evaluation
  • 13:30 – 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOF Medic to Civilian Critical Care Flight Paramedic
  • 14:00 – 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Harnessing the Herd: Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy’s Benefits for Veterans
  • 14:00 – 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Military Occupational Specialties Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury, 2012-2023
  • 14:00 – 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    SOST modernization: learning from our friends and allies.
  • 14:00 – 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Starting a Business 101
  • 14:20 – 14:40 East Coast USA Time
    Prolonged Casualty Care for the Layperson
  • 14:30 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    DAP Operational Optimization Resolution (DOOR) Seed project results
  • 14:30 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Home Front and Abroad: Cross Connection of Operational Resiliency for U.S. Customs and Enforcement Officers and Special Forces
  • 14:30 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOCOM Medical Aquisition
  • 14:40 – 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Expeditionary Medical Crisis Standards for Care: A Proposed Framework to Support Crisis Management, Interoperability and Global Health Engagement
  • 14:50 – 15:10 East Coast USA Time
    Hypovolemic Arrest – Ukrainian Military Resuscitation Methodology and Outcomes (2022-2025)
  • 14:50 – 15:10 East Coast USA Time
    The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and Special Operations Medicine: Synergy to Mitigate Global Emerging Threats
  • 15:00 – 15:20 East Coast USA Time
    USAMRIID Capabilities and a Discussion of Emerging Disruptive Technologies in Biodefense
  • 15:00 – 15:30 East Coast USA Time
    Afternoon Break with Exhibitors
  • 15:10 – 15:30 East Coast USA Time
    Augmented Reality Headsets for Far Forward Medics Doing Surgery?
  • 15:15 – 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Auricular Acupuncture First Principles for Special Operations and Tactical Law Enforcement Medical Personnel - S2
  • 15:15 – 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Tactical Care for Fire-As-A-Weapon Burns-S2
  • 15:30 – 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Neuro Trauma Review for the Special Operations Forces Medic.l: Former 18D now 4th year neurosurgery resident reviews neuro trauma management protocols and lessons learned at level 1 trauma center.
  • 15:30 – 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Playing the Numbers Game -- Making Data Meaningful
  • 15:30 – 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    When to Stop: End-of-Life Care in the Austere Setting
  • 15:30 – 16:15 East Coast USA Time
    DARPA Programs Overview
  • 15:55 – 16:15 East Coast USA Time
    MARITIME IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICAL SUPPORT TO IRREGULAR WARFARE
  • 16:00 – 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    A retrospective analysis of TBI in female service members during the Global War on Terrorism
  • 16:00 – 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Rhythmical Reasoning as the Solid Foundation of Unconventional Resilience and Interoperable Performance in Austerity
  • 16:15 – 16:35 East Coast USA Time
    Sustaining Distributed Medics in Denied Environments
  • 16:15 – 16:45 East Coast USA Time
    Duke PA Program
  • 16:30 – 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Management of mild traumatic brain injury in terms of war of drones: expectations and reality. Do we always stick to guidelines?
  • 16:45 – 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Wrap Up
  • 17:00 – 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Bridging the Gap: Advancing Brain Health and Operational Resilience in Australian Special Forces
  • 17:00 – 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    The Science of Poise: Strategies for Flourishing in High-Stakes Environments with the Paramedic Mindset
  • 17:30 – 18:00 East Coast USA Time
    Use of an Intraoral Neuroprosthesis for the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Associated Nocturnal Behavior Disorder in Special Forces: Case Reports of Four Patients
  • 19:00 – 21:00 East Coast USA Time
    Reception