Battlefield Healthcare: What's this event about?

Defence IQ’s Battlefield Healthcare conference will provide a forum for top experts involved in military healthcare from the battlefield through to care back home. Battlefield Healthcare’s aim is to provide military medical professionals the information they need to provide the best possible care to military personnel.

Topics on the agenda for Battlefield Healthcare include:

Lessons Learned From The Front Line To Rehabilitation, Including:

• Operational experience from the Commanding Officer ITU Op Herrick 7, Afghanistan
• Personnel Recovery and battlefield evacuation from the RAF, Dutch Armed Forces and Canadian Forces
• Analysis of the Landstuhl Medical Centre as part of the trauma network from the Gulf to the USA
• Discussion of TBI and PTSD as seen in the current conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan; current treatment advances and future areas of research in diagnosis, treatment and prevention

The Future Of Strategic Medical Healthcare:

• Analysis of the UK MoD’s Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP)
• The importance and future of Pre-deployment training and medical logistics

Tell me who is speaking?

Major General Hawley OBE QHP Director General Army Medical Service UK MoD

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

• Rear Admiral (MC) Dr. Christoph Buettner, Deputy Surgeon General of the Bundeswehr, German Armed Forces
• Colonel Brian Lein, Commander, Landstuhl Army Medical Centre, Germany
Surgeon Captain David Brown, DACOS Med Ops, Royal Navy
• Colonel Mike Manson, Assistant Director Medical Information Management, Defence Medical Service Department, UK MoD
• Captain(N) Cyd E. Courchesne, CD, BSc, MD, D Av Med, Medical Advisor to the Chief of Air Staff, Director Aerospace Medicine, Canadian Forces
• Colonel Jonathan Jaffin, Deputy Commander, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, United Stated Army
• Colonel Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, Director, Proponency of Behavioural Health Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army
• 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
• Captain Eamonn Sullivan MSc (crit care), RN, QARANC (V), Officer Commanding (OC) ITU Op Herrick 7, 256 Field Hospital, British Army
• Proffessor Lorna J Martin, Chief Specialist / Head of Division, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, University of Cape Town South Africa

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

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