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Full Schedule

  • 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
    HOT AIR BALLOON MCI…Everyone Has a Plan Until the First Punch
  • 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
  • 11:10 - 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 - 14:30 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