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Psychological Health &
presents its annual flagship training conference:
Veteran Affairs Focus Days
The most CME & CE Credits
offered by IDGA in 2009!
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Combat Casualty Care – From the Front Lines
through Reintegration
March 30 - April 2, 2009 • Sheraton Premiere at Tysons
Corner, Vienna, VA
This event will deliver: Obtain invaluable information on the latest
in combat medicine from these unparalleled
Key strategic level briefings into the
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challenges and advancements in
speakers:
military medicine
Lieutenant General James G. Roudebush, USAF, Surgeon General of the
Special focus into the latest treatments
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Air Force
of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and
delivering long term rehabilitation Rear Admiral Richard R. Jeffries, USN, Medical Officer of the Marine Corps
Insights into front line combat casualty Colonel Gregory Boyle, USMC, Commanding Officer, Marine Corps
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care and candid discussions of Wounded Warrior Regiment
interdisciplinary treatment of wounded
Captain Edward Simmer, USN, Senior Executive Director, Psychological
warriors
Health Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic
Assessments of the latest advances in Brain Injury
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wound care, infection control, and pre-
Colonel Barbara Springer, USA, Director, Proponency Office for
deployment training
Rehabilitation & Reintegration, Office of the Surgeon General
Discussions on compassion fatigue and
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Look inside for the complete speaker roster!
reintegration
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Who You Will Meet:
IDGA’s 9th Battlefield Healthcare Training
March 30 - April 2, 2009 Conference will detail best practices and
Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Cor current developments in combat medicine
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Vienna, VA and rehabilitative care as well as facilitate a
forum where treatment initiatives and
Dear Honored Caregiver, advanced research can be discussed,
debated, and developed.
Operations in Iraq and Afghanis
tan continue to create new chal The audience will be comprised of senior-
lenges in warfighter care.
Technological advancements in milit
ary medicine and the refinement of level professionals from military
the continuum of care have led
to the largest number of casualty survi
vors in modern combat history, and units/organizations, government agencies,
have created entirely new
considerations for battlefield med
icine. As a result, the military med contractors, technology service providers
ical community is quickly
focusing on advancing techniques
for front line procedures, rehabilita and academia. Attendees will include
tion, transition, and reintegration
of the wounded warrior.
directors with the following responsibilities:
IDGA’s 9th Annual Battlefield Hea Medical Readiness
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lthcare aims to provide a platform
to deliberate enablers,
objectives, barriers, goals, and Education & Training
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program initiatives to provide com
bat casualty care. A series of
distinguished speakers and participan Surgical Care
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ts will provide a roadmap by prese
nting a wide array of thought-
provoking concepts from their dive Health Services
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rse perspectives.
Medical Plans & Requirements
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This event is the most important of Research & Development
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2009 to address the following critic
al care gaps:
Front Line technologies Force Health Protection
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Patient movement Medical Support
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Medical information systems Logistics
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Polytrauma coordination Communications
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TBI and Combat Stress Injuries Case Management
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Pre and Post Deployment Medical
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Training
Rehabilitation and Reintegration
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Compassion Fatigue
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TBI/Psychological Health Focus Day
TBI/Psychological Health Focus Day Monday, March 30, 2009
Treating the warfighter the best way, the first time, every time
Give time to the issues that matter most. Sign up for the pre-conference Focus Day and dedicate more time to dialogue and networking in a
classroom environment. A series of in-depth and interactive master-classes will examine the healthcare of our wounded warriors.
Registration & Coffee
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM
Continuum of Care
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
The Tampa Transitional Transdisciplinary Team: Building Bridges to Community and Home
To meet the evolving needs of Polytrauma patients, the Tampa Transitional The “Virtual Bridge” from hospital to home, “the telehealth comfort
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Transdisciplinary Rehabilitation team has identified important factors zone”
influencing the success of its patients: What you will learn:
• Traditional roles have been expanded both in scope and in time (early • Strategies that progress patients toward community involvement,
involvement) meaningful employment, and an overall improved quality of life
• Greater collaboration is needed between disciplines as co-morbidities of • Transdisciplinary groups and programming to address and integrate the
PTSD, substance abuse, and pain seem to be the norm in this patient diagnosis of TBI and PTSD
population • Expanded team member roles are necessary to effectively treat returning
• Support is needed at each transition to maximize patient success, through
service members. Early involvement is critical for improving outcomes
concerted effort a true Transdisciplinary team is best equipped to “bridge” • The role and benefits of telehealth in the home and beyond the acute,
from hospital/clinic to home post-acute, and residential rehab settings
What will be covered:
• Bridging the gap from hospital bed to meaningful work
Session Leader:
• The Transdisciplinary team approach to bridging services from Rehab (TBI)
Lisa Perla, ARNP, CNRN, Polytrauma Network Site Coordinator, James
to Mental Health (PTSD) A. Haley VA Medical Center, Tampa
• The Transitional Transdisciplinary Nursing Model bridging from the
residential program back to the acute hospital
Clinical TBI Treatment
10:15 AM – 12:15PM
Persistent Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury: The Need for Long-Term Follow-Up and
Coordinated Care
Now that national attention is being paid to TBI disorders in our troops, the What will be covered:
actual mechanism of TBI injury is still little understood. Current research • Prevalence of common issues after TBI
models suggest TBI from blast injuries to be a significantly different injury • How can we identify issues related with TBI
than that caused by actual trauma to the skull. Understand how these How you will benefit:
important differences will affect the national treatment and research into • You will be familiarized with common issues after TBI
this debilitating condition. Also, discover how the TBI patients’ cognitive and • You will be able to network with different people to help patients with TBI
emotional deficits may decrease their capacity and initiative to seek
appropriate care on their own. Session Leader:
Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD, Chief, PM&R Service, VA Boston Healthcare
System Healthcare System
Lunch
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM
Future of Care
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Traumatic Brain Injury in OIF/OEF: Early Detection, Assessment, and Treatment
Many of the mental health consequences of the current conflicts have been Actual effects in the brain from initial blast trauma vs. recurring blast traumas
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seen in other wars and in other trauma exposed populations. There is Assessing the true level of TBI and how to properly treat the warfighter
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evidence that the high rates of trauma experienced by those stationed in How you will benefit:
the Southwest Asia theaters will result in increased demands on the • Understand how the difference in mechanism of injury separates the blast
Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and TBI from skull trauma TBI
community healthcare systems as these service members return, move back • Discover how these differences will affect the treatment and rehabilitation
to civilian status, and become eligible for VA health benefits. As the number of OIF/OEF causalities and veterans
of OIF/OEF veterans grows, their continued care is a national health care
concern. Session Leader:
What will be covered: Kimberly Meyer, ARNP, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
• Past and current research for detection of TBI
(DVBIC), Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Psychological Changes
3:15 PM – 5:15 PM
The Role of Psychological Health in Functional Outcomes from Traumatic Brain Injury
This session will discuss the mechanisms by which environment and brain as mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
experience may act upon brain systems to produce beneficial or harmful You will understand similarities and differences in the effects of traumatic
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physiological changes. We will discuss the implications of these changes psychological stress and traumatic brain injury
upon building resilience against and promoting recovery from trauma. We You will comprehend the potential role that inflammatory mechanisms
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will also discuss the potential for psychological trauma effects to interact have on psychological health after TBI
with TBI, causing confusion or aggravation of symptoms.
What will be covered: Session Leaders:
• Potential aggravating effects of exposure to traumatic psychological stress
Catherine Harrison, Ph.D., Senior Research Psychologist, Air Force
prior to or post traumatic brain injury: evidence and potential mechanisms Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Biosciences
• Potential benefits of properly calibrated stress
and Protection Division, Biomechanics Branch, Wright-Patterson Air
• Potential beneficial effects of moderating post-injury effects of
Force Base, OH
inflammation on psychological health Stuart Hoffman, PhD, Research Director, Laurel Highlands Neuro-
How you will benefit: Rehabilitation Center, Johnstown, PA
• You will understand the way in which environmental stimuli act upon the
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Main Summit Day 1
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Registration & Coffee 11:00 AM Current MEDEVAC Operations in OEF/OIF
7:15 AM
Current Medevac update
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Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
7:45 AM Force Structure issues facing Army Medevac Operations
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Patient movement and on board medical capabilities initiatives
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Global Care for Wounded Warriors
Morning Keynote
8:00 AM COL Robert D. Mitchell, USA, MS
Air Force expeditionary medical support Director, Medical Evacuation Proponency
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Progression of aeromedical evacuation Aviation Consultant to the Army Surgeon General
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Concept of enroute care
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11:45 AM The Forward Surgical Team Experience in OEF/OIF
Lt Gen James G. Roudebush, USAF, MC, CFS
Surgeon General of the Air Force Impact of Split Based Operations
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Outcomes
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Battling Drug-Resistant Bacteria Related to the GWOT
8:45 AM Blood Transfusion
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A review of the emergence and impact of multi-drug Environment
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resistant bacteria associated with GWOT trauma LTC Shawn C. Nessen, USA, DO, FACS
Future directions in the control and treatment of multi-drug Commander, 541st Forward Surgical Team
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resistant bacterial infections 44th Medical Command
COL Glenn Wortmann, USA, MD
12:30 PM Lunch
Chief, Infectious Disease Service, Department of Medicine
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Rehabilitation from the Battlefield to the Playing Field
Afternoon Keynote
1:30 PM
Application of Modalities to Accelerate Wound Repair
9:30 AM Amputee Rehabilitation
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Overview of modalities in wound healing Polytrauma/Inpatient Rehabilitation
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Characterization of the mechanisms of biomechanical Advanced Rehabilitation
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modalities COL Barbara Springer, USA, PT, PhD, OCS, SCS
Therapeutic potential of modalities Director, Proponency Office for Rehabilitation & Reintegration
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LTC (P) Alexander Stojadinovic, USA, MD Office of the Surgeon General
Assistant Chief, Department of Surgery
The Armed Services Blood Program
Walter Reed Army Medical Center 2:15 PM
Overview of OIF/OEF blood operations
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10:15 AM Networking Break Proper collection, processing, storage, distribution, and
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transfusions of blood
Lessons learned
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COL Francisco J. Rentas, USA, PhD, MS, SBB, Director,
Armed Services Blood Program Office
Networking Break
3:00 PM
Concurent Tracks. Choose Track A or B
TRACK A – Military Medical Logistics TRACK B – Wounded Warrior Transition and Reintegration
Navy Medical Logistics Marines Taking Care of Marines
3:30 PM
Acquisition Management Accountability and tracking
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Medical Equipment Logistics Solutions (MELS) Non-medical case management
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Operational Medical Logistics (OML) Transition to VA
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Healthcare Services Strategies (HSS) Col Gregory Boyle, USMC
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Production of Medical Deployable Platforms Commanding Officer
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Tom Lippert Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment
ILS Coordinator, Fleet Hospital Program Office
Naval Medical Logistics Command
Army Medical Logistics Beyond the Yellow Ribbon: The Challenge of
4:15 PM
Rehabilitation and Reintegration for Combat Veterans
Managing Medical Materiel Life Cycle Projects
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Equipping and Sustaining the Medical Force Holman, Vincent B From battlefield to stateside: the dynamics
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LTC MSC 62 MED BDE S3 The elements needed for a successful rehabilitation
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Managing Medical Strategic Centralized Programs Factors for a prosperous reintegration
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Advancing Performance Excellence LTC Kevin T. Galloway, USA, RN
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LTC Vincent Holman, USA, 62 MED BDE S3 Chief Clinical Care Branch Manager, Proponency Office for
Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Office of The Surgeon General Health Policy and Services
End of Day One
5:00 PM
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mit Day 2
ednesday, April 1, 2009
Registration & Coffee 11:45 AM DARPA’s Preventing Violent Explosive Neurologic
7:15 AM
Trauma (PREVENT) Program
Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
7:45 AM Mechanisms of explosive blast injury at the molecular as well
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as the macroscopic scales
Morning Keynote
Meeting the Medical Challenges of the Battlefield
8:00 AM Characterizing the injury over the pathophysiological evolution
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Strategic challenges Coupled effects on the central nervous system
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Mission shift COL Geoffrey Ling, USA, MD, Ph.D
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Advancements in the field Program Manager, DARPA / DSO
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RADM Richard R. Jeffries, USN, MC
12:30 PM Lunch
Medical Officer of the Marine Corps
DARPA’s Trauma Pod Program The Continuum of Resilience: Keeping Warriors,
8:45 AM 1:30 PM
Families, and Units Fit and Ready
Robotic surgical performance
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Afternoon Keynote
CT scanning and image reconstruction Prevention IS the best medicine
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Future applications Reintegration is an important part of resilience for all
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COL Geoffrey Ling, USA, MD, PhD, Program Manager, warriors and families
DARPA / DSO Line leaders play a key role at all points on the continuum
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CAPT Edward Simmer, USN, MD, MPH
Compassion Fatigue of the Caregiver
9:30 AM Senior Executive Director, Psychological Health Defense
Definition of Compassion Fatigue Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and
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Identifying risk factors Traumatic Brain Injury
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Identifying protective factors
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New Vitals Signs for Combat Casualty Care
LCDR Pamela L. Herbig, USN, NC 2:15 PM
Director and Assistant Professor Uniformed Services Obtaining accurate vital signs
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University Measuring bleeding, autonomic compensation, organ
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perfusion, and function
10:15 AM Networking Break Processing vital signs
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COL Leopoldo C. Cancio, MD, MC, US Army Combat
11:00 AM The Effects and Requirements of Leaders in War Critical Care Engineering Program, US Army Institute of
and Peace Surgical Research
Identify issues of the combat caregiver
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Networking Break
Identify leadership requirements at home and deployed in 3:00 PM
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today’s operational environment
Identify the impact of leadership on the combat caregiver
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and the mission
Lt Col Laurie Hall, USAF, NC
Internal Medicine Clinic, 81st Medical Operations
Squadron, Keesler AFB MS
Concurent Tracks. Choose Track A or B
TRACK A – Advancements in Reconstructive Surgery TRACK B – Pre-Deployment Medical Training
Project C.A.R.E
3:30 PM
Program overview
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Double Session: The Real Assessment
Best practices in reconstruction
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Humanitarian efforts for plastic surgery Observations from the force
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CDR Craig Salt, USN, MD Roles and responsibilities
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Dept of Plastic Surgery Capturing the best planning and training methods
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Naval Medical Center, San Diego SGM Chet Sechrest, USA
Operations Sergeant Major 91st CA BN
Face Trauma in OEF/OIF
4:15 PM NOTE: This session runs from 3:30 to 5:00
Wartime facial injuries
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Immediate and delayed reconstruction
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Case studies Interactive training and assessment
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Maj Daron C. Praetzel, USAF, MD session – a must attend!
Chief, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Wright Patterson Medical
Center
End of Main Summit
5:00 PM
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Veterans Affairs Focus Day
Veterans Affairs Focus Day Thursday, April 2, 2009
Treating the warfighter the best way, the first time, every time
Give time to the issues that matter most. Sign up for the pre-conference Focus Day and dedicate more time to dialogue and networking
in a classroom environment. A series of in-depth and interactive master-classes will examine the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
Registration & Coffee
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM
Center for Women Veterans
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
You Served – You Deserve: The VA Center for Women Veterans
An aggressive push to ensure women veterans receive the highest quality of changes, revisions or new initiatives to address these deficiencies
care in VA medical facilities was pledged by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. Developing collaborative relationships with other Federal, state, and
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James B. Peake. Although the VA already has services for women patients community agencies to coordinate activities on issues related to women
equal to those men receive, the VA is expanding its women-centric focus to veterans
initiate new programs that meet the needs of women veterans. The • Coordinating outreach activities that enhance women veterans' awareness
demographic shift that brings increasing numbers of women to VA for care of new VA services and benefits
and the need for changes, has lead to the formation of a work group to How you will benefit:
focus on women’s needs in prosthetics and rehabilitation, hiring women’s • Learn about changes VA-wide and assess the impact these changes may
advocates in VA medical centers, developing quality measurements have on the delivery of services to homeless women with children, rural
specifically for women patients, purchasing more state-of-the-art, specialized and elderly women veterans, and minority women veterans
women’s health care equipment, and expanding medical education in • Asses how to establish and continue relationships with state and county
women’s health for VA care providers. departments of veterans affairs
What will be covered:
• Policies, practices, programs, and related activities that are unresponsive
Session Leaders: Major General (Ret) Irene Trowell-Harris, RN, Ed.D,
and insensitive to the needs of women veterans, and recommending Director, VA Center for Woman Veterans
Enhanced VA Coverage
10:15 AM – 12:15PM
The VA Center for Minority Veterans
The mission of the Center for Minority Veterans includes serving in an community agencies to coordinate activities on issues related to minority
advisory role to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on the adoption and veterans
implementation of policies and programs affecting veterans who are Coordinating outreach activities that enhance minority veterans'
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minorities; making recommendations to senior VA officials for the awareness of new VA services and benefits
establishment or improvement of programs; promoting minority veterans' How you will benefit:
use of benefits; analyzing and e VAluating complaints made by or on behalf • Learn about changes VA-wide and assess the impact these changes may
of minority veterans; and consulting with, and providing assistance and have on the delivery of services to homeless veterans with children, rural
information to external local, state and federal stakeholders. and elderly veterans, and minority women veterans
What will be covered: • Asses how to establish and continue relationships with state and county
• Policies, practices, programs, and related activities that are unresponsive
departments of veterans affairs
and insensitive to the needs of minority veterans, and recommending
changes, revisions or new initiatives to address these deficiencies Session Leader: Colonel (Ret) Lucretia M. McClenney, ANC, Director,
• Developing collaborative relationships with other Federal, state, and
VA Center for Minority Veterans
Lunch
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM
Polytrauma at the VA
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Polytrauma Care at the VA
Polytrauma care is for veterans and returning service members with injuries Hearing loss
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to more than one physical region or organ system, one of which may be life Amputations
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threatening, and which results in physical, cognitive, psychological, or Fractures
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psychosocial impairments and functional disability. We provide • Burns
comprehensive, high-quality, and inter-disciplinary care to patients. Teams of • Visual impairment
physicians from every relevant field plan and administer an individually How you will benefit:
tailored rehabilitation plan to help the patient recover as much as possible. • Gain an understanding of what polytrauma is
What will be covered: • Obtain new diagnosis and rehabilitation techniques
• Overview of what polytrauma covers:
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Session Leaders: Call Sherryl Jacobs at 416-597-4710 for updates.
VA Primary Care
3:15 PM – 5:15 PM
The OEF/OIF Primary Care Movement
Through the experiences and struggles of returning combat veterans over benefit:
the years, we have learned about the impacts of war on military service Learn to characterize the mental health conditions and assess the needs
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personnel. We have learned that war often involves combat that may cause for mental health treatment
physical wounds and injuries. We have learned that war may frequently • Obtain techniques to identify and develop instruments for collecting and
involve psychological traumas that may cause emotional disturbances. We tracking information necessary to analyze the effects of comorbid mental
have learned that war may involve toxic environmental exposures that may and physical conditions
cause acute and chronic health effects. We have learned that the complex • Learn to describe a model of enhanced, integrated, multidisciplinary
and challenging environment of war may result in medically unexplained treatment that addresses mental health conditions
symptoms. Mental health conditions contribute to functional impairment in How you will benefit:
individuals with physical illness due to occupational and environmental • Learn to characterize the mental health conditions and assess the needs
hazards. Underrecognition and inattention to co-morbid mental health for mental health treatment
conditions prolongs unemployment, financial instability, and medical • Obtain techniques to identify and develop instruments for collecting and
disability. We propose to evaluate whether more effective recognition and tracking information necessary to analyze the effects of co-morbid mental
treatment of mental health conditions can minimize functional impairment and physical conditions
and improve employment performance among individuals seen in the VA. • Learn to describe a model of enhanced, integrated, multidisciplinary
What will be covered: treatment that addresses mental health conditions
• The state of primary care for returning veterans
• Developments and tactics to recognize and asses mental health issues
Session Leader: Stephen Hunt, MD, MPH, Medical Director,
• Multidisciplinary treatment and the future of rehabilitation How you will
Deployment Health Clinic, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
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