09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Major General (Ret’d) Alan Hawley
Professor of Disaster Medicine
Glamorgan University

09:10Keynote: The ADF’s Vision Of Continually Improving Medical Care Through Improving Interoperability

• Overview of the ADF’s current medical commitments and challenges on operations
• Steps taken to use medical informatics and support systems to improve care
• Interoperability challenges and opportunities within the services of the ADF and with our coalition partners

Major General Paul Alexander
Commander Joint Health
Australian Defence Force

09:50 Ensuring Medical Readiness Through The NATO COE For Military Medicine

• Standardisation development and training
• Centre of Excellence update for 2010
• What the COE can do to improve upon national medical readiness

Colonel (Dr) Istvan Kopcso
Director
NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine

11:00 Use of Simulation as a Training Platform for the Healthcare Provider

• The use of simulation with task training: laparoscopic, ACL, suturing labs, advanced life support/trauma training
• Field training exercise: Lessons to share from "Operation
• Bushmaster"
• Telehealth tool: the digital stethoscope

11:30 Systems And Technologies That Can Be Utilised In Terror Medicine

• Imaging technologies that can benefit the treatment of mass casualty incident
• Systems that support casualty management
• Current thinking and understanding in the IDF

Professor Shmuel Shapira Lieutenant Colonel (Res).
Director of Military Tract
Hebrew University Hadassah School of Medicine

13:20 Achieving Medical Force Readiness

• Challenges to ensuring medical personnel are fit enough in body and mind
• New initiatives
• Challenges to overcome

Colonel Brian Lien
Command Surgeon, US Forces Command
US Army

14:00 Simulation For Pre Deployment Training Of Medical Professionals In The British Armed Forces

• Challenges faced in training medical professionals for the reality of operations
• What have we learnt since 2001?
• Collective and individual pre deployment training, the use of a variety of simulated environments

Lieutenant Colonel Jan Pilgrim
SO1 G7 Chief Instructor, HQ 2nd Medical Brigade
British Army

15:00 The National Intrepid Center of Excellence: A New Paradigm in the Diagnosis, Treatment Planning and Life Long Follow Up Strategy

• Immersing the soldier in 3D simulation at Forrest for the purpose of desensitisation
• Simulation for TBI: The National Intrepid Center for TBI which will use all kinds of technology to desensitise soldiers
• Avatar simulation - a virtual reality platform

15:50 End Of Conference

16:00 Master Class Begins