Conference Day One: 26th June, 2008

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

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

09.10 German Military Medical Care: Delivering The Best Possible

• Strategic overview of the Bundeswehr medical services
• Operational commitments
• Lessons learned

Rear Admiral (MC) Dr. Christoph Buettner
Deputy Surgeon General of the Bundeswehr
German Armed Forces

09.50 Pre-Deployment Training: The Challenges

• Collective pre deployment training: Simulated hospital environment
• The use of human patient simulators
• Utilising the best training and planning methods
• Unique challenges of training medical personnel for the operational environment

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Davies
SO1 G7 Chief Instructor, Headquarters 2nd Medical Brigade
British Army

11.00 Operational Medical Training: The Dutch Perspective

• Overview of the Centre of Medical Training
• Lessons from operational experience
• Training for casualty care under fire
• Combat medics and combat nurses: Utilising forward medical care

Lt Col Bart van Lierop
The Knowledge and Training Centre
Dutch Armed Forces

11.40 Wound Ballistics: An Introduction For Health, Forensic, Legal, Military And Law Enforcement Professionals

Dr Robin Coupland
Medical Adviser, Assistance Division
International Committee of the Red Cross

12.20 Personnel Recovery And Battlefield Evacuation

• Training and personnel
• The ‘golden hour’: Getting the casualty to the next stage of medical care
• ‘Stay and play’ or ‘Sccop and go’: The relative merits of each strategy
• Looking at the bigger picture: Security issues that need to be considered when extracting a casualty

Major Peter Jongenelen
The Medical staff of the Land Component Command
Dutch Armed Forces

14.00 Challenges Of Aerospace Medical Care

• Unique challenges of the aerospace environment
• The Aeromedical transportation of combat casualties
• Partnership in the Aeromedical panel
• Lessons from recent operations

Captain (N) Cyd E. Courchesne
CD, BSc, MD, D Av Med, Medical Advisor to the Chief of Air Staff, Director Aerospace Medicine
Canadian Forces

14.40 The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (dmicp)

• Achieving anytime and anywhere access to military health records in order to give the best possible care to military personnel
• DMICP being a fully interoperable electronic clinical record system and management information system
• The planned deployment of DMICP to the operational theatre and the expected benefits

Colonel Mike Manson
Assistant Director Medical Information Management, Defence Medical Service Department
UK MoD

16.00 The Future Of Battlefield Health Informatics

• Current and future information needs
• Understanding today's solutions
• What may be possible in the future

Tom Rees
Director of Military Personnel Systems
Logica CMG

16.40 The Royal Navy Medical Branch

• The varied roles in which Royal Navy medical personnel excel: Surface and Submarine Flotillas, Fleet Air Arm and Royal Marines
• The RFA Argus: The primary casualty reception facility
• Lessons learned for current operational commitments

Surgeon Captain David Brown
DACOS Med Ops
Royal Navy

17.20 Chairman’s Summary And Closing Remarks

17:30 Lecture And Drinks Reception: FACES OF BATTLE

Facilitated by the National Army Museum exhibition team

This post conference lecture will give a background to the contemporary Battlefield Medical arena that has been discussed today and will be explored further tomorrow.

Faces of Battle is an exhibition currently on at the National Army Museum in London exploring the pioneering work of Surgeon Harold Gillies, who set up the first hospital dedicated to the treatment of facial injuries during the First World War.

Gillies’ technique used bones and cartilage to reconstruct faces, and pioneered the extraordinary ‘tubed pedicle’ method of skin grafting, which not only reduced infection risks but also allowed larger grafts to be performed. Multiple surgeries were often required and many patients remained in hospital for months or years at a time. Now, ninety years later, the exhibition celebrates the work of Gillies and the courage of the men who suffered such terrible injuries.

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