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

a U.S. Army howitzer is fired

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
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. — Meeting

Location:

RAND's Pentagon City Office
4th Floor, 1200 South Hayes Street
Arlington, Virginia 22202-5050

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:

  1. The epidemiology and outcomes of blast-related burn injuries
  2. Prevention and acute management of blast-related burn injuries
  3. Prolonged field care and blast-related burn injuries
  4. The chronic care of blast-related burn injuries
  5. 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
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.

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