Main Conference Day One: Monday, March 29, 2010

7:45 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Karl Schlenker
Vice President
Minnesota Thermal Science

8:00Opening Keynote: Meeting The Medical Challenges Of The Battlefield Surgeon General Keynote

VADM Adam Robinson, USN, MC
U.S. Navy Surgeon General & Chief
U.S. Navy BUMED

8:45 From The Battlefield To The Playing Field: A New Model For Effective Rehabilitation

• Amputee rehabilitation
• Polytrauma / in-patient rehabilitation
• Advanced rehabilitation

COL Barbara Springer, USA, PT, PhD, OCS, SCS
Director, Proponency Office for Rehabilitation & Reintegration
Office of the Army Surgeon General

9:25 Mirror Therapy For Amputee Wounded Warriors

• Better understanding of the origins of phantom limb pain
• Mirror therapy for phantom limb pain
• Future directions for research in amputee care

CDR Jack Tsao, MC, USN
Ass. Prof., USU
WRMC

10:50 Military Telemedicine For The Battlefield

• Past, present and future clinical aspects
• Lessons learned and challenges faced

MAJ Kevin Chung, MD, USA
Medical Intensivist
ISR/BAMC

11:30 Citizen Soldiers: The National Guard Perspective

• Critical skills needed for the deployed trauma surgeon
• Lessons learned and challenges faced from the playing field, to the battlefield

COL Harry P Marshall Jr, MD, FACS
Deputy Commander
District of Columbia National Guard – Medical Detachment

1:25Afternoon Keynote: Canadian Perspective On Battlefield Healthcare

Commodore Hans W. Jung, OMM, CD, MD, MA, QHP
Canadian Forces Surgeon General/ Commander Canadian Forces Health Services

2:05 Update On DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program

• Creation of a fully functional (motor and sensory) upper limb that responds to direct neural control
• Update on testing in human clinical trials

COL Geoffrey Ling, USA, MD, PhD
Program Manager, DSO
DARPA

3:30 Update On DARPA’s PREVENT Program

• The Preventing Violent Explosive Neurologic Trauma (PREVENT) Program: Protecting our warfighters from traumatic brain injury resulting from such explosions
• Current test systems and predictive models to characterize blast exposure in order to optimize treatment paradigms, explosive blast mitigation, and protective strategies

COL Geoffrey Ling, USA, MD, PhD
Program Manager, DSO
DARPA

4:10 Update from the Defense And Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC)

• Current initiatives in state-of-the-art clinical care, innovative clinical research initiatives, and educational programs

COL Michael S. Jaffee, USAF
FS National Director
DVBIC

4:50 US Joint Forces Military Medicine

• Lesson learned in the Joint fight
• Challenges faced for future initiatives

RADM Mike Mittelman, USN
Command Surgeon
US Joint Forces Command

5:10 End Of Day One