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Full Schedule

  • 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 ASW SOLIC
  • 08:50 - 09:20 East Coast USA Time
    Senior Leader Welcome
  • 09:20 - 09:40 East Coast USA Time
    Medic Vignette: From POI to Rehabilitation: Prolonged Field Care in the Austere Environment
  • 09:40 - 10:15 East Coast USA Time
    Wounded Warrior Presentation
  • 09:50 - 10:15 East Coast USA Time
    SOMA Medic of the Year Presentation
  • 10:15 - 22:25 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 - 11:20 East Coast USA Time
    Medical Hall of Honor Ceremony
  • 11:20 - 12:00 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
    Advanced Snakebite Management: A Hands-On Workshop Utilizing the 2026 JTS CPG
  • 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 2
  • 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
  • 13:15 - 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
  • 14:30 - 15:00 East Coast USA Time
    The FAM100 Project: Physiological Insights from 100 Days in the Arctic
  • 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