Mitigating the Impact of Blast-related Burn Injuries: From Prolonged Field Care to Rehabilitation and Resilience
The Ninth Department of Defense State-of-the-Science Meeting on Blast Injury Research

U.S. Army Pfc. Erik Park fires a 155mm howitzer in Paktika province, Afghanistan
Photo by Ken Scar/U.S. Army
Date: |
Tuesday, March 3 – Thursday, March 5, 2020 |
Time: |
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. — Check-In & Registration |
Location: |
RAND's Pentagon City Office |
Attire: |
Business casual for civilians and uniform of the day for military |
Hotel Information: |
Please see suggestions for hotels near the RAND Pentagon City office. |
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Meeting Objectives
To determine what is known and needs to be known on:
- The epidemiology and outcomes of blast-related burn injuries
- Prevention and acute management of blast-related burn injuries
- Prolonged field care and blast-related burn injuries
- The chronic care of blast-related burn injuries
- Game changing opportunities to transform blast-related burn injury research
Agenda
Tuesday, March 3 | Wednesday, March 4 | Thursday, March 5
Tuesday, March 3
- 07:00
- Registration Opens
- 08:00
- Welcome from the Acting Director, Department of Defense Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office
- Dr. Raj Gupta
- 08:10
- Welcome from the Acting Principal Assistant for Research and Technology, US Army Medical Research and Development Command
- Dr. Mark T. Dertzbaugh
- 08:25
- Brief Meeting Overview
- Dr. Charles Engel
- 08:35
- Keynote Address: Military Burn Care: Tales from the Leading Edge of Innovation
- COL Kevin Chung, MC, US Army
- 09:05
- Invited Presentations, Session One
- [TBD], Moderator
- 09:05
- Blast-Related Burns: A Modern History
- Dr. Lee Cancio
- 09:25
- Overview of DoD Burn Research
- Dr. Kai Leung
- 09:45
- Military Health System Burn Injury Prevention Standard: Example of Dermal Burn Science
- Dr. Jeff Colombe
- 10:05
- Q&A Panel
- (Chung, Cancia, Leung, Colombe)
- 10:20
- AM BREAK
- 10:40
- Invited Presentations, Session Two
- [TBD], Moderator
- 10:40
- Civilian Burn Mass Casualty Events and Preparedness Research
- Dr. Colleen Ryan
- 11:00
- Prehospital Burn Care: Prolonged Field Care
- COL Jeremy Pamplin, MC, US Army
- 11:20
- Acute Care Burn Assessment and Management
- Dr. Eileen Bulger
- 11:40
- Impact of Acute Care on Long Term Outcomes
- Dr. Nicole Gibran
- 12:00
- Q&A Panel
- (Ryan, Pamplin, Bulger, Gibran)
- 12:15
- LUNCH & POSTER SET-UP
- 01:30
- Invited Presentations, Session Three
- [TBD], Moderator
- 01:30
- Surgical Advances: Reconstruction & Restoration
- Dr. Rodney Chan
- 01:50
- Psychosocial Aspects of Resilience and Functioning
- Dr. Amanda Reichard
- 02:10
- RAND Literature Review Summary
- Dr. Tepring Piquado
- 02:30
- Q&A for all speakers
- (Chan, Reichard, Piquado)
- 02:45
- PM BREAK
- 03:00
- Scientific Presentations, Session One: Populations and Planning
- [TBD], Moderator
- 03:00
- Burn injuries in US service members: 2001-2018
- Ms. Katheryne Perez
- 03:15
- US Army Burn Center Registry and Burn Injury Model System
- Dr. Radha K. Holavanahalli
- 03:30
- TBI, Burns and Blast: Is PTSD all about the Blast?
- Dr. Mary Jo Pugh
- 03:45
- National Trauma Research Action Plan: A Burn Research Agenda
- Dr. Nicole S. Gibran
- 04:00
- Q&A for all speakers
- (Perez, Holavanahalli, Pugh, Gibran)
- 04:15
- Closing Remarks
- Dr. Gupta
Dr. Engel
- Dr. Gupta
- 04:30
- Adjourn
Wednesday, March 4
- 07:00
- Registration Opens
- 08:00
- Welcome
- Dr. Gupta
- 08:10
- Scientific Presentations Two: Injury Assessment and Technology
- [TBD], Moderator
- 08:10
- A Warrior Avatar for Model Based Blast and Burn Injury
- Dr. Przekwas
- 08:25
- In vivo terahertz spectral imaging for burn depth diagnosis
- Dr. M. Hassan Arbab
- 08:40
- Creating an Automated, Enhanced Lund Browder Diagram to Calculate TBSA
- Mr. Gregory T. Rule
- 08:55
- Blood mRNA Integrity is a Marker of Radiation Exposure
- Dr. Lauren Moffatt
- 09:10
- Speaker Q&As
- (Przekwas, Arbab, Rule, Moffatt)
- 09:25
- AM BREAK
- 09:40
- Scientific Presentations Three: Intervention Research
- [TBD], Moderator
- 09:40
- Burn Resuscitation: Can We Be Better?
- Dr. Jeanne Lee
- 09:55
- Glycopolymer-based Infection Control of Polytraumatic Burns
- Dr. Kaveri Parker
- 10:10
- Nanofiber Dressings for Infection Prevention and Pain Relief
- Dr. Jessica Amber Jennings
- 10:25
- [TBD]
- [TBD]
- 10:40
- Speaker Q&As
- (Lee, Parker, Jennings)
- 10:55
- Work Group Roles and Responsibilities
- Emily Hoch
- 11:15
- LUNCH AND POSTERS
- 12:30
- Break Out to Work Groups*
- Expert Panelists
- 04:00
- Adjourn directly from work groups
* Breaks are determined within each Work Group.
Thursday, March 5
- 07:00
- Registration
- 08:00
- Reconvene in Work Groups*
- 12:00
- LUNCH AND POSTERS
- 01:00
- Work Group Reports
- Dr. Engel, Moderator
- 01:00
- Work Group A: Dr. Cancio
- 01:20
- Work Group B: Dr. Dewey
- 01:40
- Work Group C: Dr. Donelan
- 02:00
- Work Group D: Dr. Gibran
- 02:20
- Work Group E: Dr. Iyar
- 02:40
- Work Group F: Dr. Reichard
- 03:00
- Closing Remarks and Adjourn
- Dr. Gupta
* Breaks are determined within each Work Group.
Questions/Comments
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