7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:00 Morning Keynote: Cutting Edge Medical Technology And R&D Efforts From The Walter Reed Health Care System

COL Norvell V. Coots USA, MC, MD, MSS, FAAD
Commander, Walter Reed Health Care System
Walter Reed Army Medical Center

8:45 Current R&D In Limb Salvage And Rehabilitation

• Inaccuracy of standardized severity scores for limb salvage
• Current case studies

MAJ Joseph Hsu, USA, MD
US Army Institute of Surgical Research

10:15 Current Initiatives In Rehabilitation At The Center For Intrepid, TX

• Overview of Rehabilitation Science Program
• Current Amputee Research

LTC Rachel Evans, USA
Research Director
Center for the Intrepid, TX

11:00 Advancements In Prosthetics And Amputee Rehabilitation Technologies From WRAMC

• Update on Clinical techniques in Amputation
• Lessons learned in rehabilitation technologies

COL Paul F. Pasquina, USA, M.D.
Chief, Integrated Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
National Naval Medical Center

1:00 Virtual Therapy And Telehealth In The Air Force

• Update on current VR therapy initiatives
• Advances in telehealth

LtCol Timothy Lacy, MD, USAF, MC
Chief, Telehealth
Air Force Medical Support Agency

2:00 Afternoon keynote: Navy: Navy Medicine Research Overview

Dr. Wayman Wendell Cheatham, MD, FACE
Special Assistant to the Surgeon General for Medical Research, Director, Navy Medical Research & Development Center & Director, Navy Clinical Investigation Programs
Bureau of Medicine & Surgery

2:45 Wound Care R&D: Wound Biomarkers: High Energy Penetrating War Injuries

• Overview of high energy extremity injuries
• Hyper-inflammatory response and the mechanism of wound failure
• Predictive models of wound closure

CDR Eric Elster, USN, MC, FACS
Combat Casualty Care, Naval Medical Research Center & Department of Surgery NNMC Bethesda & Assistant Professor of Surgery
Uniformed Services University

3:30 End Of Summit