7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:00 Morning Keynote: Update On Meeting The Medical Technology Challenges Of Force Health Protection

Col Donald L Noah
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness

8:45 MC4 Focus: MC4 – Enabling Improved Situational Awareness & Continuity Of Care On The Battlefield

• Challenges & lessons learned: Integrating, fielding, training & supporting the DoD’s tactical medical recording systems
• Medical command and control (C2) uses, impact and way forward via MC4

LTC William E. Geesey
Product Manager, Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4)
U.S. Army

10:15 Update On New Technology For Combat Casualty Care

COL Dallas C. Hack, USA, M.D.
Director, US Army Combat Casualty Care Research Program Chair
Joint Technology Coordinating Group 6 (Combat Casualty Care) US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

11:00 Remote Patient Monitoring: Deployed Military And Beyond

• Low cost wearable and unobtrusive sensing
• Compact wearable gateways for sensor analysis
• Value added services to monitor the status of individuals in commercial or military applications

James J. DelloStritto
Principal Researcher
Blue Highway, LLC

11:45 Simulation vs CD-ROM teaching: Effects Of Using Human Patient Simulator (HPS) Versus A CD-ROM On Cognition And Critical Thinking Relative To Combat Care

• Results of the recent study
• Possible impact on the choice of teaching aids and strategies for lower-level and higher-level cognition

COL (Ret) Don Johnson, USAFR, PhD
Director of Research, US Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing
Ft. Sam Houston

1:45Afternoon keynote: Enhanced Aviation And Combat Life Support Equipment: Medical Technology For Level 1 MEDEVAC Teams

COL Joseph F. McKeon, MC, MD, MPH
Commander
US Army Aeromedical Research Lab

2:30 Use Of Medical Equipment In The Military Aeromedical Environment: Challenges And Design Considerations

• Military airworthiness and environmental test requirements for medical carry-on equipment.
• Examples of challenges in meeting these requirements
• Equipment design considerations for use in the helicopter environment

Khalid Barazanji, Ph.D.
Chief, Airworthiness Certification and Evaluation Branch, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory
Ft. Rucker. AL

4:00 The Future Of Battlefield Health Informatics

• Information flow from Theater to the Clinical Data Repository-
• Information sharing between the DoD and VA
• What’s next

Rick Barnhill
PM, Clinical Informatics, Western Regional Medical Command
Madigan Army Medical Center

4:45 Closing Keynote: Keynote Session

Dr. Edward F. Gabriele
Special Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General for Ethics & Professional Integrity
BUMED

5:30 End Of Day One