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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, April 25, 2026
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    NAEMT'S Tactical Emergency Care (TECC) 3rd Editon Provider Course
  • Sunday, April 26, 2026
  • 07:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    NAEMT'S Tactical Emergency Care (TECC) 3rd Editon Provider Course
  • 14:00 - 18:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • Monday, April 27, 2026
  • 07:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 07:00 - 18:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Airway management, basic to advanced, what you need to know! - Session 1
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    An Approach to Expeditionary Musculoskeletal Point-of-Care Ultrasound: The Joint and Extremity Diagnostic and Intervention (JEDI) Protocols - Session1
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Application and Specifics of the new partial Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta PRO (how we teach it in Ukraine) - Session1
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Approach to MASCAL Response - Session 1
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Cricothyroidotomy: Master the Feel - Master the Steel
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Improvised Medicine Workshop
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    POCUS Under Fire: Ultrasound for Unstable Trauma in Austere Environments - Session 1
  • 08:00 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOMA/NAEMSP Medical Oversight of Operational Pre-Hospital Clinicians Course
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Burn Life Support
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Cadaver Development Course (AC/DC) - Procedural Skills Update
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced K9 Casualty Care in the Tactical Operations
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Ventilator Concepts for Prolonged Field Care
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Building Expert Educators: the SMS Instructor Development Course - Day 1
  • 08:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    CONTOMS Medical Directors Course
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Preventing, Assessing and Treating Invisible Wounds: Care for Yourself and Your Patient - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Airway management, basic to advanced, what you need to know! - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    An Approach to Expeditionary Musculoskeletal Point-of-Care Ultrasound: The Joint and Extremity Diagnostic and Intervention (JEDI) Protocols - Session2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Application and Specifics of the new partial Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta PRO (how we teach it in Ukraine) - Session2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Approach to MASCAL Response - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Building Expert Educators: the SMS Instructor Development Course - Day 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Cricothyroidotomy: Master the Feel - Master the Steel
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Just a Fancy BVM- A Mechanical Ventilation Lab - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    K9 Combat/Emergency Casualty Care - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    POCUS Under Fire: Ultrasound for Unstable Trauma in Austere Environments - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    RUSH to Action: Point of Care Ultrasound for Shock - Session 1
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Preventing, Assessing and Treating Invisible Wounds: Care for Yourself and Your Patient - Session 2
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • 07:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 07:00 - 18:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 08:00 - 08:10 East Coast USA Time
    Opening Ceremony & Honor the Fallen
  • 08:10 - 08:20 East Coast USA Time
    SOMSA 2026 Programs of Emphasis & Conference Opening Remarks
  • 08:20 - 08:50 East Coast USA Time
    Address from ASD & SOLIC
  • 08:50 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Senior Leader Welcome
  • 09:20 - 09:50 East Coast USA Time
    Medical Hall of Honor Ceremony
  • 09:50 - 10:15 East Coast USA Time
    SOMA Medic of the Year Presentation
  • 10:15 - 10:30 East Coast USA Time
    Morning Break
  • 10:25 - 10:50 East Coast USA Time
    Tom Deal Memorial Lecture - Standing The Watch: Lessons in Mobility, Lethality and Innovation-from a Special Forces Medic to the founder of TEMS and The United States Surgeon General
  • 10:50 - 11:30 East Coast USA Time
    Wounded Warrior Presentation
  • 11:30 - 11:55 East Coast USA Time
    SOCOM Command Surgeon & SEMA Update
  • 12:00 - 13:00 East Coast USA Time
    Lunch Break
  • 12:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Cadaver Development Course (AC/DC) - Procedural Skills Update - Day 2
  • 13:00 - 13:15 East Coast USA Time
    Machine Learning–Based Correlation of Venous Morphology with Hemorrhagic Shock Stages Using Volumetric M-Mode Ultrasound in a Swine Model
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Allied SOFCOM Update
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Military Working Dogs and Unknown Exposure: complications, solutions, and training
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Scaling Chaos: Mass Casualty Lessons from Civilian Disaster Deployments
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Enhancing Bloody Airway Simulation in Austere Environments for Pre-Hospital Providers by Integrating Artificial Intelligence/Augmented Reality Algorithms With Expert Feedback - S1
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma in high stress environments: A practical guide on using ultrasound to detect critical injuries on the battlefield. - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Building Expert Educators: the SMS Instructor Development Course - Day 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    From Combat to Care: Maintaining Clinical Precision After Defensive Action - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Hands on PFC nursing skills from the experts in a vignette scenario
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Just a Fancy BVM- A Mechanical Ventilation Lab - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    K9 Combat/Emergency Casualty Care - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Pediatric Resuscitation Lab: A train the trainer lab focused on hands on skills practice and familiarization with a novel bundle of free simulation-based pediatric training resources - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Regional Anesthesia for Austere Trauma - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Snakebite CPG lab
  • 13:15 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Sterility of fresh whole blood units stored for an extended period of time above room temperature
  • 13:30 - 13:45 East Coast USA Time
    Assessing Potential Adjunct Medications such as Hydroxocobalamin and Methylene Blue, with REBOA, in the Management of Hemorrhage in a Large Animal (Sus scrofa) Model of Polytrauma
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Interpreting Threat in Civilian High-Threat Environments: Comparative Lessons from Australia, the United States, and Europe
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Recognition and Management of the End-of-Life Patient in Resource-Limited and Deployed Settings
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    UKR Presentation
  • 13:45 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Expert Care, No Expert Needed: Validating a Field-Deployable Autonomous Closed-Loop Resuscitation system for Severe Haemorrhagic Shock
  • 14:00 - 14:15 East Coast USA Time
    From Brain Impact to Recovery: Optimizing Nutrition Strategies for Concussion Recovery in US Army Rangers
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Aerial Delivery of Fresh and Stored Blood Products: A Review of the Literature and Proposal for Standard Operating Procedures
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Destination Is an Intervention: Why SOF Medics Must Own Capability-Based Evacuation Planning
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    European medical preparation to major engagements and large scale combat operations
  • 14:15 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Phase 3: Dimensions of a Ruler to Measure and Mark Donor Blood Bags for Reliable Filling to 450 mL
  • 14:30 - 14:45 East Coast USA Time
    Impact of Cold Stress Exposure on Warfighters Physiological State and Proficiency of Tactical Combat Casualty Care
  • 14:30 - 14:50 East Coast USA Time
    Practitioner, Not Paramedic: Preserving the Identity and Scope of Special Operations Forces Medics
  • 14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Austin Tactical Paramedic Response to an Officer-involved Shooting
  • 14:45 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Effectiveness of Combat Application Tourniquets Applied Over Wetsuits in Dry and Underwater Environments
  • 15:00 - 15:30 East Coast USA Time
    Afternoon Break
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Enhancing Bloody Airway Simulation in Austere Environments for Pre-Hospital Providers by Integrating Artificial Intelligence/Augmented Reality Algorithms With Expert Feedback - S2
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma in high stress environments: A practical guide on using ultrasound to detect critical injuries on the battlefield. - Session 2
  • 15:30 - 15:45 East Coast USA Time
    Extrimity Combat Trauma in modern drone warfare: Tourniquet Use, Care Pathway Challenges, and Outcome Insights from Operational Research
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Prolonged Tactical Frontline Combat Casualty Care in Ukraine Drone Warfare
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    ReSOFisticated personnel: training medical personnel for casualty evacuations in the “kill zone”
  • 15:45 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Comparing Improvised Versus Commercial Tourniquets for the Control of Junctional Hemorrhage
  • 16:00 - 16:15 East Coast USA Time
    Utilization of Pupillometry to Evaluate Potential Brain Health Effects of Military Free Fall Training
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Enhancing Far-Forward Resuscitation: A Quantitative Analysis of Blood Warmer Devices Used in Austere Environments
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Training UK Special Forces Medics and Doctors
  • 16:15 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Therapeutic Limb Hypothermia Preserves Function in a Novel Survival Porcine Model of Acute Hindlimb Ischemia
  • 16:30 - 16:45 East Coast USA Time
    Human Peak Performance in Special Operations Forces: “Daily Sleep Monitoring in Special Operations Forces: Longitudinal Insights from 11,500+ Nights Using Wearable HRV and Digital Sleep Intervention
  • 16:30 - 16:50 East Coast USA Time
    Bridging the Gap With PA-Enabled Forward Image-Guided Care Across the Roles of Care
  • 16:30 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    From Classroom to Combat Care: Integrated Blended Learning in the NATO Special Operations Combat Medic Course
  • 16:45 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Preliminary Results for Post-Exercise Photobiomodulation Application on Performance, Recovery, & Behavioral State in a Highly Trained Special Operator Group
  • 16:50 - 17:10 East Coast USA Time
    Role 0–2 and Role 1.5: fighting tourniquet syndrome at the forefront
  • 17:00 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Cognitive Effects of Low Level Blast Exposure in Military Personnel
  • 17:00 - 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Building and Sustaining Prolonged Field Care Competency: Canadian Special Operations Command' Four Phase Curriculum for Special Operations Medical Providers
  • 17:15 - 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Development of a Damage Control Resuscitation Readiness Score and Deployment in Ukraine
  • 18:00 - 20:00 East Coast USA Time
    Opening Welcome Reception with Exhibitors
  • 18:00 - 20:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOMSA Gear Store in Exhibit Hall
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    1 - OPTIMIZING CARE OUTSIDE OF THE IVORY TOWERS: AN ANALYSIS OF HYPOTHERMIA ON ARRIVAL AFTER INTERFACILITY TRANSFER
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    10 - Tactical Combat Casualty Care in Cold Environments: a Scoping Review
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    11 - The Pressure to Perform: Acute Exertional Compartment Syndrome in a Candidate during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    12 - Medical mobility inovation in LSCO: Lessons from Ukraina´s volunteer medics
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    13 - The Rise of Rescue Based Policing: TECC Training on Par with EMS in Hemorrhage Control
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    14 - Translating Nutrition Science: Evidence for Nutraceuticals to Treat Post-Concussion Symptoms and Optimize Warfighter Brain Health
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    15 - Efficacy of a Holistic, Integrated, Interdisciplinary Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program of Military Personnel with a History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and Associated Comorbidities.
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    16 - Bootlegging Ether: Small-scale Production of an Inhaled Anesthetic for Prolonged Field Care and the Guerilla Hospital
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    17 - A poster presentation - Project Torch - a feasibility study to demonstrate IO access and freeze dried plasma administration by non medically trained operators with telemedicine guidance
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    18 - Empowering SOF Medical Mobility Through Pediatric Readiness: Closing the Capability Gap in Irregular Warfare
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    19 - Novel Device for Rapid Carotid Artery Occlusion Device in Combat and Pre-Hospital Settings
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    2 - Regional Anesthesia in Prolonged Casualty Care: Converging Strategies for SOF and Spaceflight Medicine
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    20 - Prehospital Emergency Response in a Partial Hand Amputation with Ulnar Artery Transection: A Case Report
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    21 - TacMed1: An Innovative Education Program in Tactical Medicine Education
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    22 - Patterns of Extremity Injuries and Survival Outcomes: A Retrospective Study of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police (2020–2024)
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    23 - Pararescue Students’ Perceptions of Ask-Tell-Ask Feedback for Medical Training: A Pilot Study
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    24 - NATIONWIDE TRANSPORT BY POLICE TO TRAUMA CENTERS – AN ANALYSIS FROM THE TRAUMA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM REGISTRY
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    25 - SOF Medic Case Study poster "Improvised Nebulizer for TXA Delivery in the Austere Environment"
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    26 - The Incidence of Thrombocytopenia at Deployed Military Treatment Facilities: A Department of Defense Trauma Registry Analysis
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    27 - A Hasty Decontamination Field Kit
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    28 - A Foot Wound That Led to the Brain: An Unexpected Diagnosis of Intracranial Hemorrhage Presenting as Lower Extremity Numbness
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    29 - Traumatic Hemarthrosis and Acute Gait Impairment as the Initial Presentation of Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    3 - Pre-hospital airway management in the civilian and military setting: a systematic review
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    30 - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES OF PRIMARY AMPUTATION VERSUS LIMB SALVAGE IN COMBAT-RELATED EXTREMITY INJURIES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    31 - Food-Dependent Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis in a Special Forces Operator: Diagnostic Considerations and Operational Impact”
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    32 - Cranial Gunshot Wounds and Their Impact on Mortality Among the Rio de Janeiro Military Police (2020–2024)
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    33 - Epidemiological Profile of Firearm Injuries in the Rio de Janeiro Military Police (2020–2024): Patterns of Survival and Operational Challenges
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    34 - PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE TRAITS OF BLOOD WARMING DEVICES AMONG SPECIAL WARFARE MEDICS
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    35 - Decreasing Minimum Blood Donor Deferral Period with Intravenous Iron Supplementation
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    36 - Effective blood delivery to the combat wounded: A feasibility study of the Legacy Mobile Cooling & Warming Blood Storage Container (Prototype)
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    37 - LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: A PRESSURE-SENSING TROCAR IMPROVES SPEED AND ACCURACY IN TUBE THORACOSTOMY
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    38 - When Chronic Back Pain Isn’t Benign: A Rare Tumor Masquerading as Musculoskeletal Pain
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    39 - Massive Hemorrhage and Cranial Gunshot Wounds: TCCC Challenges in Urban Asymmetric Warfare
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    4 - A description of Colorado Trauma Registry patients receiving timely blood product resuscitation
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    40 - A scoping review on the use of viscoelastic assays to guide massive transfusion in trauma
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    41 - Severe Rheumatic Heart Disease Requiring Mechanical Valve Placement in a Special Operations Forces Soldier
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    42 - Double the Damage: Bilateral Partial Quadriceps Tendon Ruptures After a Simple Fall
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    43 - Enhancing Psychological Resilience Through Equine Facilitated Therapy in the SOF Community
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    44 - Recognizing and Managing Chronic Knee Swelling Under Tumor Concern: Lipoma Arborescens in the Field
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    45 - Image quality and patient comfort in ocular ultrasound: A comparison of Tegaderm barrier vs no barrier
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    5 - Erythropoietin use in Autologous Blood Transfusion, a narrative review and considerations for reducing the blood donation interval
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    6 - OUTCOMES IN AUSTERE TRAUMA CARE: AN ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS TRANSFERRED FROM SCENE COMPARED TO INTER-HOSPITAL TRANSFERS
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    7 - Modeling Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachments (FRSDs) Failure Points in Large-Scale Combat Operations: A Stochastic Simulation of Damage Control Surgery
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    8 - Special Operations Medics Bridging the Gap Between Polytrauma Symptoms Recognition and Referral for Treatment
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    9 - Epidemiology of rhabdomyolysis in the Department of Defense Trauma Registry
  • 18:30 - 19:30 East Coast USA Time
    Moderated Poster Session
  • Wednesday, April 29, 2026
  • 07:00 - 08:00 East Coast USA Time
    Continental Breakfast
  • 07:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 07:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 08:00 - 08:30 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette - Wednesday
  • 08:30 - 08:50 East Coast USA Time
    International Track - Main Stage Speaker
  • 08:50 - 09:10 East Coast USA Time
    Austere Resuscitative Surgical Care Track - Main Stage Speaker
  • 09:10 - 09:30 East Coast USA Time
    Military Special Operations Forces Track - Main Stage Speaker
  • 09:30 - 09:50 East Coast USA Time
    Biomarker-Driven Readiness: Bloodwork Insights for Special Operations Forces
  • 10:00 - 10:45 East Coast USA Time
    Morning Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOMSA Gear Store in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:45 - 11:05 East Coast USA Time
    Velico FrontlineODP Spray Dried Plasma: Progress towards a dried plasma for TCCC
  • 11:05 - 10:25 East Coast USA Time
    Medical Support of Irregular Warfare Track - Main Stage Speaker
  • 11:25 - 11:45 East Coast USA Time
    Austin Tactical Paramedic Response to an Officer-involved Shooting
  • 11:45 - 12:05 East Coast USA Time
    SOF-Focused Neurotrauma Review
  • 12:00 - 13:00 East Coast USA Time
    Lunch Break with Exhibitors
  • 13:00 - 13:15 East Coast USA Time
    Dynamic Evaluation of CapnospotTM In Known Pneumothorax Model
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Enhancing Medical Support for Police Special Operations in Brazil’s Narco Warfare Through the NATO SOFCOM Medical Model
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    UAV-Enabled Search, Rescue, and Rapid Medical Resupply for Civilian EMS and SOF Operations
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Ultrasound-Augmented Triage: A Proposal to Refine Field Decision Making in in Tactical Combat Casualty Care
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Manual Pressure Points of Proximal Hemorrhage Control - How to perform, how to teach and the use of ultrasound - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    "rDCR in a backpack" Highly Mobile Remote Damage Control Resucitation System
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Dental Skills Lab - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    DNBI Diagnostics: Leveraging Point of Care Ultrasound for Disease Non-Battle Injuries and Prolonged Field Care - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    From Combat to Care: Maintaining Clinical Precision After Defensive Action - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Hands on PFC nursing skills from the experts in a vignette scenario
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Intro to Diploma In Mountain Medicine Knots and patient rescue systems - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Pediatric Resuscitation Lab: A train the trainer lab focused on hands on skills practice and familiarization with a novel bundle of free simulation-based pediatric training resources - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Regional Anesthesia for Austere Trauma - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Team Health: Sports Medicine Tips and Tricks for the Combat and Tactical Medic
  • 13:15 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Performance of Blood Administration Tubing under Gravity Flow: Flow Rate, Priming Time, and Dead Space Across Commercially-Available Blood Tubing Sets
  • 13:30 - 13:45 East Coast USA Time
    Comparing Algorithmic and Intuitive Triage in Mass Casualty Incident Response - Pilot Study
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    As above, so below: Potential, challenges and future of ground robotic systems in tactical evacuation.
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    CBRN and Biodefence Medical Training: A Multinational Approach
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Snakebite CPG panel discussion
  • 13:45 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Tourniquet Use and Associated Complications in Ukraine
  • 14:00 - 14:15 East Coast USA Time
    Promising outcome metrics for the neurological investigation of repeated low-level blast exposure: A needed synthesis for effective research in an emerging injury topic
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Adaptation of training systems to the challenges of the modern battlefield
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Beyond Your Daddy’s GWOT: Actionable Medical Lessons From Ukraine
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    NATO Maritime TCCC: Observations, Analysis, and Lessons Learned
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    When Your Prisoner Is A Patient - Navigating Ethical Quandaries in Tactical EMS
  • 14:15 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Click it or Twist it…, A Prospective Comparative Study of Ratchet vs Windlass Tourniquets
  • 14:30 - 14:45 East Coast USA Time
    Discrepancy Between Peripheral Oxygen Saturation Measurements Obtained Simultaneously from Two Pulse Oximeters in Acutely Ill Patients
  • 14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    A new approach to MASCAL training: leveraging the entertainment and gaming industries for improved realism and modularity
  • 14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Integrating advanced medical capabilities training during Naval Special Warfare Unit Formoza Q course.
  • 14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Optimizing the Efficacy of Commonly Used Tactical Medical Gear and Medications in the Arctic/Extreme Cold Operational Environment.
  • 14:45 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Cold O+ blood for Life-saving transfusion Delivery in the prehospital setting
  • 15:00 - 15:30 East Coast USA Time
    Afternoon Break with Exhibitors
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Manual Pressure Points of Proximal Hemorrhage Control - How to perform, how to teach and the use of ultrasound - Session 1
  • 15:30 - 15:40 East Coast USA Time
    Monitoring Low Level Blast Exposure in Qualified Australian Special Operations Operators
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    A history of mobile surgical teams Role 1-3 and horizon scan
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Forging the Tactical Medic: Lessons From Special Operations applied to Civilian SWAT training
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Swords of iron - lessons learned from combat in a dense urban environment
  • 15:40 - 15:50 East Coast USA Time
    Monitoring Low Level Blast Exposure to Trainees in Australian Special Operations Command
  • 15:50 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Evaluation of Tactical Combat Casualty Care in the Maritime Environment
  • 16:00 - 16:10 East Coast USA Time
    The Efficacy of Androgen Administration on Behavioral and Muscle Function Following Blast Exposure
  • 16:00 - 16:20 East Coast USA Time
    Officer Down: Extrapolating Lessons Learned from Battlefield Medicine to Response in an Urban Shooting
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Fresh Whole Blood is Not The Answer: It's Still a Question
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Synthetic blood substitutes: why modern tech means we don’t need real blood far forward in a deployed UK Special Operations environment
  • 16:10 - 16:20 East Coast USA Time
    A Silica-Based Hemostatic and Regenerative Dressing for Expeditionary Trauma Care: GLP Porcine Hemostasis and Wound Healing Outcome
  • 16:20 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Operational Evaluation of a Novel Flowable Hemostatic Adjunct in Prehospital Trauma: A 17 Case Initial Review
  • 16:30 - 16:40 East Coast USA Time
    Military Free Fall School Medical Waiver Analysis 2024-2025
  • 16:30 - 16:50 East Coast USA Time
    Caring SOFtly: A word from Ukrainian top on impactful mobility and effective interoperability of medical assets.
  • 16:30 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Calcium Supplementation in TCCC
  • 16:40 - 16:50 East Coast USA Time
    Sleep and Pain in the Special Operations Forces Holistic Review and Performance Analysis
  • 16:50 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Developing Force Multipliers: A Train-the-Trainer Program for Prolonged Casualty Care in Support of International Partners in Poland
  • 16:50 - 17:20 East Coast USA Time
    The Rangers' Mastery of the Basics: Innovative Solutions That Mitigate Morbidity and Mortality
  • 17:00 - 17:10 East Coast USA Time
    Advanced Night Stalker First Responder: Training Non-medical Personnel
  • 17:00 - 17:30 East Coast USA Time
    Potential Applications of Electrosurgical Vessel Sealing in Prolonged Field Care
  • 17:10 - 17:20 East Coast USA Time
    Developing a Core Content Model for Law Enforcement-Specific Basic Medical Training
  • Thursday, April 30, 2026
  • 07:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 07:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 08:00 - 08:30 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette - Thursday
  • 08:30 - 08:40 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - Welcome, Track Introduction & MSIW Committee Update
  • 08:30 - 08:50 East Coast USA Time
    Helmets with Wearable Hydraulics Reduce Head Accelerations in Laboratory Testing
  • 08:30 - 08:50 East Coast USA Time
    Training the Military Surgical Resident for Tomorrow’s Battlefield: A Military Unique Curriculum at the Uniformed Services University and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • 08:30 - 08:50 East Coast USA Time
    War Fighter Brain Health Update
  • 08:30 - 10:30 East Coast USA Time
    Heart Rate Variability (HRV): A Practical, Affordable, and Noninvasive Tool to Assess the Warfighter’s Autonomic “Fight or Flight” Response - Session 1
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Building Law Enforcement Medical Programs to Improve Patient Survival - Session 1
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Dental Skills Lab - Session 2
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Filling the Trauma Surgical Training Gap: Utilizing Dead Porcine Tissue for Damage Control Resuscitation and Surgery Skill Maintenance in a Low Resource Environment
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Intro to Diploma In Mountain Medicine Knots and patient rescue systems - Session 2
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Joint Diving Medicine Sustainment Training - Session 1
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Maternal Care in Austere Environment - Session 1
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Musculoskeletal Triage and Care in the Deployed Environment
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Soft Tissue Mobilization: Musculoskeletal Care for the Austere Environment
  • 08:30 - 12:30 East Coast USA Time
    Tactical Medicine Review: earning your TP-C board certification
  • 08:40 - 08:55 East Coast USA Time
    IW and MSIW Efforts at DOW
  • 08:50 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Dynamic Dance with Death: Musical Mobility Empowering Prudential Lethality in SOF Medicine
  • 08:50 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Second Edition, Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines for the Management of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury: Brief Overview
  • 08:50 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Your Brain Under Fire: The Neuroscience of Tactical Decision-Making
  • 08:55 - 09:15 East Coast USA Time
    Summit: Medical Strategies for Modern Conflict
  • 09:15 - 09:45 East Coast USA Time
    Historical Experiences with Medicine in Irregular Warfare
  • 09:20 - 09:40 East Coast USA Time
    Mastering Movement: Multisensory Reweighing and Dual-Tasking for Performance and Recovery
  • 09:20 - 09:40 East Coast USA Time
    The Golden Hour is Dead - Long Live the Golden Hour
  • 09:20 - 10:05 East Coast USA Time
    "Brain health challenges and care continuity for modern Special Operations"
  • 09:40 - 10:00 East Coast USA Time
    ARSC Presentation
  • 10:00 - 10:45 East Coast USA Time
    Morning Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:00 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOMSA Gear Store in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:05 - 10:10 East Coast USA Time
    Block Intro - Allied Perspectives on Medical Support to Irregular Warfare
  • 10:10 - 10:30 East Coast USA Time
    The Unseen Role of SOF Medics in Military Assistance Operations
  • 10:30 - 10:50 East Coast USA Time
    Force Multipliers: How International Collaboration Enhances Medical Training in Irregular Warfare
  • 10:45 - 11:05 East Coast USA Time
    Abscess, Skin Infections, and Necrotizing Fasciitis for the Forward Medic
  • 10:45 - 11:15 East Coast USA Time
    Performance Nutrition for SOF in High OPTEMPO and Extreme Environments: Fueling, Gut Integrity, and Recovery Under Stress
  • 10:45 - 11:25 East Coast USA Time
    The Future of the Military TBI Field
  • 10:45 - 12:45 East Coast USA Time
    Heart Rate Variability (HRV): A Practical, Affordable, and Noninvasive Tool to Assess the Warfighter’s Autonomic “Fight or Flight” Response - Session 2
  • 10:50 - 11:10 East Coast USA Time
    Irregular Warfare in South America: Medical and Tactical Challenges in High-Threat Criminal Environments
  • 11:05 - 11:35 East Coast USA Time
    Planning the Deployment and Employment of Role 2 Facilities in Drone Dominated Warfare
  • 11:10 - 11:30 East Coast USA Time
    Surgery for Irregular Warfare in the Pacific, relearning hard won lessons
  • 11:15 - 11:45 East Coast USA Time
    Psychedelic Medications for PTSD, Addiction and other forms of therapy
  • 11:25 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    Understanding & Addressing Gut Health After TBI: A Functional Approach
  • 11:30 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - Allied Perspectives Block Q&A
  • 11:35 - 12:00 East Coast USA Time
    The SOF medical multi-tool: plasma
  • 12:00 - 13:00 East Coast USA Time
    Lunch Break with Exhibitors
  • 13:00 - 13:05 East Coast USA Time
    Block Intro - Medico-Ethical Dilemmas in MSIW
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Damage Control Pain Management in Ukraine
  • 13:00 - 13:30 East Coast USA Time
    Evaluation of Remote Sleep Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment to Reduce Operational Readiness Impacts and Improve Sleep Related Outcomes
  • 13:00 - 13:45 East Coast USA Time
    Mobile Brain Care for SOF: Deployable Solutions for TBI, Sleep Disruption, and Trauma Recovery
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Auricular Acupuncture First Principles for Special Operations & Tactical Law Enforcement Medical Personnel - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    Austere Clinician Medical Stress Shoot - Session 1
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Building Law Enforcement Medical Programs to Improve Patient Survival - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Joint Diving Medicine Sustainment Training - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Maternal Care in Austere Environment - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Musculoskeletal Triage and Care in the Deployed Environment
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    RUSH to Action: Point of Care Ultrasound for Shock - Session 2
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    The War for Your Mind: Resilience Across Time from MACV-SOG to GWOT. Personal Experiences, Observations and Recommendations for Future SOF.
  • 13:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Ventilator Confidence: From Scary Ornament to Clinical Force Multiplier
  • 13:05 - 13:25 East Coast USA Time
    Palliative Care - A SOF(T) Skill?
  • 13:25 - 13:45 East Coast USA Time
    Moral Injury in IW Medicine - Preparing Practitioners, Units & Commanders for a New Reality
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Scalable and Safe: Advantages of 1:1 Component Therapy in Modern Day Role 2 Settings
  • 13:30 - 14:00 East Coast USA Time
    Spine Optimization and Recovery Conditioning Program for Rotary Wing Pilots and Crew: A Theoretical Approach
  • 13:45 - 14:05 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - Medico-Ethical Dilemmas Block Q&A
  • 13:45 - 14:15 East Coast USA Time
    Translating Policy into Practice: Educating and Protecting the Force from Blast Overpressure
  • 14:00 - 14:20 East Coast USA Time
    Medical Mobility Redefined: Hyper-mobility as Force Multiplier in SOF
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Multi-system Combat Trauma in Denied Environments: Rethinking Damage Control Surgical Decision-Making in Contested Evacuation Settings
  • 14:00 - 14:30 East Coast USA Time
    Signals in the Noise: Emerging Themes from the VALOR Special Operations Interviews
  • 14:15 - 14:45 East Coast USA Time
    Neurophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury and Austere Care Considerations
  • 14:20 - 14:25 East Coast USA Time
    Block Intro - Creating Capabilities
  • 14:25 - 14:45 East Coast USA Time
    Preparing the Next Generation for Medical Support to Irregular Warfare
  • 14:30 - 14:50 East Coast USA Time
    A Field-Deployable Blood Salvage and Resuscitation System for Non-Compressible Torso Hemorrhage
  • 14:45 - 15:05 East Coast USA Time
    Dr. Jeremy Pamplin, M.D., Biological Technologies Office Program Manager, DARPA – Breakthrough Innovations for Medical Care in Denied Environments
  • 15:00 - 15:45 East Coast USA Time
    Afternoon Break with Exhibitors
  • 15:00 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Tactical Care for Fire-As-A-Weapon Critical Burns
  • 15:05 - 15:20 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - Creating Capabilities Block Q&A
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Auricular Acupuncture First Principles for Special Operations & Tactical Law Enforcement Medical Personnel - Session 2
  • 15:15 - 17:15 East Coast USA Time
    Austere Clinician Medical Stress Shoot - Session 2
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Cold Weather Medical Development within UK Commando Forces
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Understanding Invisible Wounds: Proactive CISM and Mental Readiness Training for Junior Providers
  • 15:30 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Why Exercise Matters After Brain Injury: Evidence-Based Guidance for Clinicians
  • 15:35 - 15:40 East Coast USA Time
    Block Intro - MSIW Enablers
  • 15:40 - 16:00 East Coast USA Time
    Broken Bones and Broken Boarders: MSIW and Security Concerns from Europe to the Pacific
  • 16:00 - 16:20 East Coast USA Time
    Structural Vulnerabilities in Western nation’s Medical Logistics: Strategic Risks and potential solutions.
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    5G-Enabled Medical Telementored NATO field experiment with Unmanned Medical Resupply for Point of Injury Chest Trauma Care
  • 16:00 - 16:30 East Coast USA Time
    Why You Should Always Pack a Coloring Book (and other portable NICoE techniques)
  • 16:20 - 16:40 East Coast USA Time
    How to Win the Medical Messaging Battle During Irregular Warfare-What Medical Command Teams Need to Know
  • 16:30 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    Anomalous Health Incidents -Causation, Mitigation, Identification, and Treatment of an Emerging Directed Energy Medical Threat.
  • 16:40 - 17:00 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW - MSIW Enablers Block Q&A
  • 17:00 - 17:05 East Coast USA Time
    MSIW Track Closing
  • 18:30 - 20:30 East Coast USA Time
    Mission Possible: Networking & Fundraising Reception
  • Friday, May 1, 2026
  • 07:00 - 08:00 East Coast USA Time
    Continental Breakfast
  • 07:00 - 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 07:30 - 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 07:55 - 08:00 East Coast USA Time
    SOMSA Program Conference Update
  • 08:00 - 08:30 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette - Friday
  • 08:30 - 09:00 East Coast USA Time
    TCCC Update
  • 09:00 - 09:30 East Coast USA Time
    PFC Update
  • 09:30 - 10:00 East Coast USA Time
    JTS Update
  • 10:00 - 10:30 East Coast USA Time
    SOMA Business Meeting & Awards Presentation
  • 10:30 - 11:00 East Coast USA Time
    ATMA Update
  • 11:00 - 11:30 East Coast USA Time
    THOR Annual Update
  • 11:30 - 11:45 East Coast USA Time
    Closing Remarks