Conference Day Two: 27th June, 2008

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Dr John Navein
MB ChB MRCGP DCH DTM&H DMCC LRCP MRCS

09.10 Meeting The Challenges Of Combat Casualty Care

• The role of the Army Medical Service (AMS) within current operational commitments
• Strategic challenges of delivering Good medicine in bad places
• Cooperation with coalition partners to deliver the best possible support
• Rehabilitation and AMS work in the UK

Major General Hawley
Director General Army Medical Service
UK MoD

09.50 Requirements For The Uk Military Medical Services

Colonel Derek McAvoy
IPTL, Medical and General Supplies IPT
UK MoD

10.30 The Royal Airforce (raf) Medical Care

• Overview of assets and commitments
• The strategic and tactical challenges faced
• Aeromedical transportation of casualties

Wing Commander Alan Cranfield
OC, Tactical Medical Wing
RAF

11.30 Advanced Imaging Techniques In Combat

• Damage control radiology and analysis
• Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
• Future directions of advanced imaging

Dr Ed Callaway
NightHawk Radiology Services/ Former Teleradiology Consultant
USAF

12.10 Caring For America’s Combat Casualties: The Walter Reed Army Medical Center

• Overview and mission statement
• Level V care
• The scope of plastic surgery initiatives
• Excellence in research programmes across the board

Major General Carla Hawley-Bowland
Commanding General, North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center
United States Army

13.40 Uk Battlefield Blood Supply

• Strategic overview of current commitments
• The requirements for blood supply
• Lessons learned from current operations
• The way ahead: Future requirements

Dr Heidi Doughty
Consultant in Haematology & Transfusion Medicine - NHS Blood and Transplant & University Hospital, Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Commanding Officer, 202 Field Hospital
British Army

14.20 Intensive Care Unit (itu) And High Dependency Unit (hdu): Experiences From Afghanistan

• Overview of the ITU/HDU unit in Afghanistan
• Unique challenges that are faced

Captain Eamonn Sullivan MSc (crit care)
RN, QARANC (V), Officer Commanding (OC) ITU Op Herrick 7, 256 Field Hospital
British Army

15.30 Landstuhl Medical Centre (lrmc), A Centre Of Excellence As A Level Ii Trauma Centre

• Supporting troops from Afghanistan and Iraq as part of a trauma network
• The Level II designation is unique for LRMC in that it is the first medical facility outside of the United States to be verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
• What now: Continuing to excel in combat casualty support

Colonel Brian Lein
Commander
Landstuhl Medical Centre Germany

16:10 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) And Traumatic Brain Injury (tbi)

• The importance of pre and post deployment screening
• Current and emerging TBI screening programmes
• The unique challenge of rehabilitation of combat casualties: A long term vision

Colonel Jonathan Jaffin Deputy Commander, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command United Stated Army

Colonel Elspeth Cameron Ritchie MD, MPH, Director, Proponency of Behavioural Health Office of The Surgeon General United States Army

17:20 Chairman’s Summary And Closing Remarks Of Conference

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