ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Biomanufacturing for Supply Chain Resilience	Abstracts should address (identify problems/propose solutions for) the following key areas affecting therapeutic development and commercialization: (1) Critical Manufacturing Challenges: Identify specific biomanufacturing bottlenecks and vulnerabilities that impede efficient therapeutic development and commercialization; (2) Technology Solutions for Manufacturing Gaps: Propose innovative technologies and strategies to overcome biomanufacturing limitations in the following domains: Raw Materials, Equipment and Software, Automation, Measurement and Data Management, Preservation, Transport & Storage, Processes and Quality Systems; (3) Distributed Manufacturing Strategies: Explore technologies and methods enabling distributed manufacturing models and point-of-need manufacturing for therapeutics and medical products, enhancing supply chain resilience and access, including FDA regulatory hurdles, fielding challenges and appropriate Role of Care for manufacturing implementation.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Critical Concerns in Operational Dentistry	Abstracts should address: (1) The evolving nature and operational impact of in-theater dental emergencies; (2) Advances which enhance treatment capabilities and effectiveness (therapies, procedures, field sterilization processes, 3D printing applications, AI interventions, etc.); (3) Methods, materials, and technologies to enhance readiness, resilience, and human performance while minimizing adverse physical, physiologic, and cognitive effects; (4) Development and deployment of smart, ruggedized technologies that improve dental imaging and care by leveraging artificial intelligence; and (5) The importance of focused dental research efforts driven by insightful operational gap analyses.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Current Challenges in DoW Aerospace Medicine	The military aviation environment poses many challenges to the health and performance of aircraft crews and passengers; aircraft occupants must also be protected from the many physical and environmental hazards inherent in operational flying.  Aerospace medicine practitioners are faced with a rapidly changing landscape consisting of fitness-for-duty regulations, options for maintaining or enhancing aircrew performance under extremely stressful conditions, and a variety of human-system interface problems related to new equipment–including helmets, displays, life support equipment, survival gear, and the aircraft itself.  This panel will bring together aviation medicine professionals from around the DoW and internationally, to discuss the latest challenges and developments in this small field while illustrating its importance to the audience, as well as the broad range of clinical and operational challenges.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Evaluating the Impact of Military Policies & Programs on Performance & Readiness	The U.S. military implements programs and policies to enhance performance, reduce injuries, and improve readiness (e.g., Holistic Health and Fitness, Pregnancy and Post-Partum Physical Training). These initiatives can be enterprise-wide or unit-specific, addressing diverse needs across the force. While some initiatives can be evaluated through randomized controlled trials, others require advanced quasi-experimental or causal inference methods. This session highlights research that uses experimental and quasi-experimental approaches to assess these efforts, advancing methodological practices and identifying scalable policies across the Armed Forces. Additionally, it showcases initiatives aimed at improving physical and cognitive performance, fostering knowledge exchange across services, and supporting adoption in diverse operational environments. By emphasizing evidence-based practices, this session aims to drive innovation and effectiveness in military programs and policies.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Global Health Engagement: Partnerships for Military Medical Readiness	The US Department of War (DoW) faces significant challenges in military medical readiness, particularly for potential large scale combat operations. DoW global health engagement, which includes a broad range of health-related operations, activities, and investments (OAI) with allies and partners, is critical for increasing military medical readiness. This breakout session aims to highlight ongoing and novel opportunities for developing solutions to address threats to the joint warfighter through international medical research, medical threat surveillance, and global heath engagement activities. Greater coordination and synergy of research and partnership with global partners and allies will enhance military medical readiness for the US DoW and partners in order to protect and advance U.S. national security priorities. Joint U.S. partner nation co-presentations are strongly encouraged.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Joint Force Innovation: Accelerating Development through Military Experimentation	A great product that meets a military medical need does not ensure fielding to the Warfighter. Multiple aspects—e.g., doctrine, formations, training—must be aligned. This is enabled through experimentation (during tabletop, simulated, and live military exercises), a growing area of opportunity to integrate innovative technologies, assess effects of manipulating warfighting concepts or conditions, and inform requirements. Early and frequent experimentation is essential to creating a ready force able to clear the battlefield, enable return to duty, and overcome contested logistics. This session will educate participants on the value of experimentation. Event planners, capability developers and experimentation participants are invited to submit abstracts addressing: (1) Preparing products/ideas for experimentation, (2) Opportunities for experimentation, and/or (3) How experimentation impacts outcomes, combat operations and survival (lessons learned).
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Military Women`s Health Research	This breakout session examines the imperative to advance rigorous, evidence-based military women’s health research within the Military Health System, informed by current Executive Orders, Department of War Guidance, and Defense Health Agency (DHA) research goals and policy directives. The session highlights research that is aligned with the DHA Strategic Research Plan. Current leadership priorities stress Lethality, Survivability, and Readiness of all forces; therefore, abstracts for this session should present findings of research to optimize and protect female warfighters in order to preserve combat power and enhance combat support.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	One Health in Uniform: Veterinary Medicine Supporting Warfighter Readiness	The U.S. Department of War (DoW) faces significant challenges in military medical readiness, particularly for potential large scale combat operations. DoW global health engagement, which includes a broad range of health-related operations, activities, and investments (OAI) with allies and partners, is critical for increasing military medical readiness. This breakout session aims to highlight ongoing and novel opportunities for developing solutions to address threats to the joint warfighter through international medical research, medical threat surveillance, and global heath engagement activities. Greater coordination and synergy of research and partnership with global partners and allies will enhance military medical readiness for the US DoW and partners in order to protect and advance U.S. national security priorities. Joint US-partner nation co-presentations are strongly encouraged.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Optimizing Nutrition to Support Military Service Members	High quality diets are essential to support optimal health, readiness and performance in Military Service Members; however, current diet quality of service members is suboptimal. This session will focus on diet and dietary supplement-based strategies for optimizing nutrition status, mitigating performance degradations, and enhancing resilience of service members. Assessing nutritional status and evidence-based interventions can provide countermeasures for optimizing mental and physical performance. Abstracts should address one or more of the following topics: (1) The current state of the military nutrition environment and/or strategies to improve the nutrition environment; (2) Nutritional strategies to optimize energy availability and physical performance; (3) Nutrition interventions for injury prevention and/or recovery, (4). Assessment of nutritional status and health-related nutritional biomarkers, (5). Novel nutrition and pharmaceutical interventions to optimize physical and/or cognitive performance.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Optimizing the Human Weapon System: Utilizing Wearable Sensor Data to Inform Readiness	This session invites abstracts focused on the use of wearable sensors to assess Warfighter readiness and optimize performance in operationally extreme environments. Topics may include (1) effective implementation of wearable sensors in operationally unpredictable environments, (2) applications of wearable technologies to enhance performance or mitigate performance decrements caused by stressors (e.g., fatigue, environmental extremes, or workload), and (3) development of algorithms from sensor systems to provide actionable insights for leaders, improving decision-making and mission effectiveness. Submissions should emphasize operational relevance, technological innovation, and the potential impact on Warfighter readiness and mission success.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Sleep: The Key to Medical Readiness	Sleep underlies all aspects of service member medical readiness. However, sleep loss in the military is universal, thus increasing risk to health and performance. Furthermore, sleep is impacted by physical and mental illness and injury and can be an interventional target for treatment or mitigation strategy. Abstracts submitted to this session should focus on sleep in developing strategies and interventions for prevention or treatment in areas such as psychological health, MSKI, TBI, blast injuries, sleep disorders, or other issues impacting medical readiness. Additional focus will be placed on devices and apps that measure or enhance sleep within healthy and/or patient populations.
ANCILLARY SESSIONS	Undersea Operational Research Panel	Undersea medicine is a National Naval Responsibility (per ONR and the Chief of Naval Research). Executing National Defense Strategy requires the joint cognitive and physiological readiness, safety, and health of submariners, as well as Navy/USMC/Army Divers and SEALs. Abstracts should address RDT&E knowledge or materiel efforts towards monitoring, modeling, or mitigating operational challenges/risks associated with diving/submarine operations, e.g.: (1) Undersea effects/considerations of Arctic/cold-water exposure; (2) Toxicity effects (excess O2/CO2; air/water contaminants); (3) Pressure effects (compression/decompression); (4) Psychological/cognitive challenges; 5) Long-term health risks/outcomes. Most issues above are of joint interest to USN/USMC, USA, USAF, Space Force, SOCOM, NASA, and Congress. "
BLOOD & BLOOD PRODUCTS	Blood & Blood Products: Novel Strategies for Treatment of Blood Failure	Abstracts should present innovative scientific, translational, or operational approaches that advance the understanding, development, or deployment of next-generation blood products or blood-derived resuscitation strategies to treat traumatic blood failure, including coagulopathy, oxygen delivery deficits, and endothelial injury, in combat-relevant environments.
BLOOD & BLOOD PRODUCTS	Cellular Therapeutics for Trauma	Abstracts should address the use of cellular therapeutics for treatment of all types of traumatic injury, including burns, brain injury, musculoskeletal trauma, shock, hemorrhage, blast and radiation injury. Cellular therapeutics include the use of cells and/or cell products such as extracellular vesicles, exosomes, conditioned media, cell lysates and engineered products. Abstracts addressing the biology, efficacy and mechanism of therapeutics are welcome; as are those addressing processing, manufacturing, storage or delivery methods.
BLOOD & BLOOD PRODUCTS	Hemorrhage Control & Vascular Dysfunction	Abstracts should focus on hemorrhage control through the use of hemostatic dressings, to include drugs that protect from the onset of vascular dysfunction. Specifically, they should (1) Define the need for hemostatic products in a military-relevant setting (i.e., epidemiological data, justification for use in prolonged field care settings), (2) show the safety & effectiveness for hemostatic products in controlling blood loss (i.e., preclinical, clinical data, and real world evidence important for the development of clinical practice guidelines), (3) Define current and novel hemostatic products that take advantage of physiological factors to direct and optimize their use in combat casualty care, (4) Define mechanism and novel drugs that target components of the vascular and lymphatics to mitigate the onset of vascular dysfunction and tissue edema.
CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT/DATA ANALYTICS	Autonomous Casualty Evacuation in LSCO: Gaps, Challenges, & Opportunities	Success in casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) in Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) may demand utilization of unmanned vehicles of opportunities.  However, some of these vehicles may exceed acceptable ride standards for healthy humans and the risk of such rides on injured casualties is unknown. Abstracts should address the unique challenges of prolonged transport via space, autonomous air, ground, and surface vehicles – especially when leveraging logistical vehicles in extremis, with AI-driven control systems -- focusing on casualty outcome gaps and proposing targeted mitigation strategies. Topics could include trauma physiology in inertial environments, physiologically informed vehicle behavior, remote monitoring of casualties, injury stabilization, and the acceptance of autonomous vehicles as viable means of CASEVAC by mission commanders.
CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT/DATA ANALYTICS	Autonomous Medical Systems for the Field	Abstracts should address: (1) Successes and challenges of implementing state of the art in automated/partially automated medical devices to support trauma care and management (mechanical ventilation, infusion pumps, physiological monitoring, defibrillation etc.), (2) Central monitoring & alarming and role in extending provider capability, and/or (3) Challenges and solutions to medical device interoperability.
CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT/DATA ANALYTICS	New Sensor & Algorithm Technologies to Improve & Support Monitoring, Triage, & CCC	This session will focus on new sensors, technologies, and associated algorithms for sensing and processing physiologic data streams to improve patient monitoring, patient diagnosis, and provide earlier detection of critical conditions, need for life saving interventions, and improved clinical decision support. This includes new Artificial Intelligence technologies, machine learning algorithms, or new techniques for digital signal processing that provide additional insight to clinicians or automated systems.
CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT/DATA ANALYTICS	Robotics & Human-Machine Teaming for Augmenting Combat Casualty Care Delivery	Abstracts should focus on the use of robotics or semi-autonomous systems that can team with medics and other care providers to augment the delivery of care in the pre-hospital environment. Applications include the extension of common robotic or standoff sensor/compute platforms for medical use-cases, as well as novel teleoperated or semi-autonomous medical systems to reduce the cognitive and physical burdens of pre-hospital care providers in providing timely and accurate triage, diagnostics, intervention, and continuous monitoring. Technology focus areas include machine perception and intelligence, scene understanding (e.g. using visual language models), teleoperative robotic assistance for surgical or diagnostic tasks, autonomous robotic medical behaviors, and natural language human-machine tasking and shared situational awareness.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Advances for Managing Complex Organ Injury in Prolonged Field Care	The purpose of this session is to present innovative research and emerging solutions that advance combat casualty care for complex organ injuries. The focus is on technologies, therapeutics, and knowledge products that prevent, predict, or treat secondary organ injury and organ failure following polytrauma. Areas of interest include lung, kidney, and other end-organ dysfunction, as well as clinically relevant approaches to prolonged casualty management in austere and operational environments. Abstracts should address one or both of the following goals for the combat casualty: (1) Development or evaluation of therapeutics to mitigate secondary organ injury following polytrauma or complex injury, (2) Identification of biomarkers or methods to predict and detect secondary organ failure. Submissions must clearly describe how the proposed work improves care when evacuation is delayed or unavailable and in resource-limited settings.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Advances in Far-Forward (Roles 1/2) Clinical Care Provision	Severe resource limitations, rapidly changing operational conditions, and high stakes missions place unique demands on medics and front-line clinicians delivering care in battlefield environments, where advanced technologies often fail under austere environmental rigor. This session focuses on advanced clinical and translational research and development in two areas: (1) operational medicine–focused healthcare skill performance, to include novel medical training, tactics, and battlefield care delivery systems ( KRL 5 or higher); and (2) low-technology adjuncts, equipment, medical materiel, or products (for example, hemorrhage control solutions, blood products or substitutes, and tourniquets - TRL 5 or higher) specifically engineered to endure environmental rigors while measurably improving battlefield outcomes from point of injury through Role 2.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Far-Forward Portable Life Support & Imaging Devices	Abstracts should address deployable, far-forward life support and diagnostic imaging technologies that improve casualty survivability and decision-making from point of injury through delayed evacuation. Topics of interest include (1) portable and ruggedized life support systems (e.g., lightweight oxygen generators and ventilation systems); (2) poly-trauma adjuncts that enhance stabilization and outcomes; miniaturized, (3) fieldable imaging technologies for austere or communications-denied environments forward of field hospitals.; and (4) artificial intelligence capabilities that support imaging interpretation, triage, and clinical decision-making when resources or connectivity are limited.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Forward Trauma Care: Enhancing Semi-Fixed Role 1 Facility Capabilities for LSCO	Advances in trauma resuscitation are critical to sustaining warfighter survival and operational readiness during Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO), where prolonged evacuation timelines and high casualty volumes are anticipated. This session will focus on emerging capabilities and concepts relevant to Battalion Aid Station (BAS)–level care, emphasizing interventions by non-surgeon medical officers to bridge the gap between point of injury and definitive surgical care. Topics include early resuscitation strategies, diagnostics to support triage and decision-making in resource-constrained environments, and technologies that are mobile, shelf-stable, low electromagnetic signature, and suitable for austere operations. Submissions may also include modeling and simulation methods to assess system performance and readiness for handling high casualty volumes during LSCO with limited ability to evacuate to MTFs with surgical capabilities.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Future Anti Shock Solutions in the Pre Hospital Environment	Abstracts should address: (1) The likelihood and associated risks of limited or delayed treatment of shock in future pre-hospital Combat Casualty Care, (2) Possible new or existing solutions or challenges of using a low volume anti-shock therapeutic to mitigate ischemia and extend survival while in a non-resuscitation fluid-based field environment; and/or (3)Explanations of mechanisms and therapeutic effects (new or existing) on shock pathophysiology (e.g., metabolic pathway stabilization, cellular oxygen utilization improvement, inflammatory inhibition, cardiovascular functional optimization, and organ preservation) on the warfighter pre hospital.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Implementation, Challenges & Outcomes of Military Medical Research during Active Conflict	This session will address Congressional direction to establish military medical partnerships with Ukraine in the NDAA 2023 and 2024, including research projects within Ukraine related to traumatic brain injury, hemorrhage control, traumatic stress, rehabilitation, wound management, severe sepsis, and trauma registry development. Abstracts should address the research strategy of the study being performed, the findings to date, and the next steps to advance the results from the study and obstacles of collaborations with foreign countries in conducting research. Identify approaches and limitations of conducting research during prolonged active conflict.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Medical Lessons Learned from Ukraine & Israel Conflicts to Improve Casualty Care Strategies	This session will discuss injury patterns and barriers to medical Military conflicts to provide a unique opportunity to learn from experiences in managing casualties in peer-to-peer combat and modern warfare injuries related to technological advancements. A better understanding of the different types and rates of battlefield injuries in these scenarios and difficulties with provision of casualty care are among the lessons to be learned from providers. Abstracts should address evolving battlefield medical needs and lessons learned.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Novel Solutions for Burn Care	This session will highlight research aimed to deliver acute treatments for burn trauma agnostic of injury mechanism to revolutionize point of need burn care in the deployed setting, particularly in austere, prolonged care, atypical burn (radiation, chemical, cold weather, etc.) and/or mass casualty scenarios. Abstracts must include: (1) pre-clinical or clinical research focusing on assessment or treatment of severe burn or atypical burn injuries with therapeutics, technologies, and techniques including proof of concept ; (2) descriptive analysis of how research applies to care for burn injuries in an austere environment including corresponding data; (3) the current technology/knowledge readiness level. Abstracts highlighting compelling, novel models to evaluate candidate solutions for skin or lung burn injury may be considered.
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE	Preserving Warfighter Performance & Readiness through Improved Battlefield Pain Control	This session focuses on innovative RDT&E to enhance battlefield pain management. Abstracts should address one or more of the following: (1) Analysis of Current Limitations: Assessment of limitations in current pain control. (2) Novel Therapeutics: Development of novel analgesics and anesthetics for safe and effective operational use. (3) Innovative Analgesic Strategies: Exploration of multimodal analgesia, combination therapy, and delivery systems for sustained pain relief. (4) Predictive Casualty Care: Approaches to forecast and mitigate adverse effects and accelerate positive outcomes. (5) Operational Integration and Impact: Evidence of a therapy`s integration at lower echelons of care and its function to reduce provider load. Abstracts related to chronic pain will not be considered.
EFFECTS OF TRANSPORATION IN THE WARFIGHTER	En Route Care and the Effects of Transport on Complex Injuries	Abstracts should address issues (high volume casualties, prolonged evacuation, environmental changes) related to movement across multiple platforms (ground, air, and sea) during potentially non-consecutive transfers across roles of care. Abstracts should focus on (1) Emerging solutions that enhance MEDEVAC/CASEVAC capabilities and/or optimize en route provider task performance, (2) Platform/medical team limitations and environment characteristics (i.e. temperature, pressure, vibration, etc.) which would hinder agility and survivability, (3) Technology and/or knowledge solutions that can facilitate overcoming platform and provider performance limitations, and (4) Patient and medical documentation transfers. "
EFFECTS OF TRANSPORATION IN THE WARFIGHTER	Military Injury Biomechanics & Applications to Warfighter Injury Prevention	Abstracts submitted to this session should address any of the following topics: (1) Injury biomechanics and tolerance research for the design of military personnel protective equipment (e.g., helmet and body armor); (2) Injury biomechanics of the head, neck, and spine during military operational tasks; (3) Military vehicle crashworthiness, injury trends, and injury biomechanics of mounted occupants; or (4) Mechanisms and biomechanics of injury for Service Members. Abstracts covering topics such as osteoarthritis and other chronic conditions/injuries, overuse injuries, and studies of long-term effects of trauma are outside the scope of this breakout session.
EFFECTS OF TRANSPORATION IN THE WARFIGHTER	Whole-Body Vibration, Head-Supported Mass, & Posture	Abstracts should address: (1) exposure effects of whole body-vibration (WBV) in aviation and ground vehicles; (2) Combined effects of WBV and head-supported mass (HSM); (3) Posture contribution to WBV and HSM.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT	Developing Novel Solutions to Prevent & Treat Wound Infections on the Front Line	Wound infections remain a critical challenge particularly in multi-domain combat environments. Effective wound care in combat environments requires innovative solutions that address the unique challenges of battlefield medicine. This breakout session will explore innovative solutions to prevent, diagnose, and treat wound infections in austere and resource-limited settings, including the development and application of front-line solutions from early S&T research to mature solution prototypes technologies focused on Role 1 and 2 medical care.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT	Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Combat Wounds	Antibiotic-resistant bacteria represent a silent yet formidable enemy in military medicine, particularly in the treatment of combat-related wounds. This session will delve into the growing threat posed by multidrug-resistant pathogens in battlefield environments and the innovative strategies being developed to combat them.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT	From Lab to Line: The Military`s Role in Advancing Infectious Disease Countermeasures	This session will highlight the military`s end-to-end capabilities in the product development pipeline for infectious disease countermeasures, from discovery to Phase 3 clinical trials.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT	Mitigating Bloodborne Infections in Future Combat Operations	Abstracts should address: (1) Countermeasure development to mitigate the threat blood-borne infections, (2) Epidemiology of blood-borne pathogens that pose a threat of transfusion-transmitted infections, (3) Force Health Protection and public health strategies to mitigate the threat of blood-borne infections, including lessons learned from recent conflicts.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT	Platform Technologies: Revolutionizing Infectious Disease Countermeasures for the Military	This breakout session will explore the role of platform-based technologies (e.g., psoralen, viral vectors, monoclonal/polyclonal antibodies, others) in rapidly developing infectious disease countermeasures.
MENTAL HEALTH	Cognitive & Physical Performance: Aerospace Medicine for Prolonged Cislunar Military Operations	Strategic competition between peers is being pushed into space and beyond low earth orbit. Success in prolonged cislunar military operations demands sustained cognitive & physical performance from space operators, exceeding the challenges of LEO missions that NASA and other space organizations have gained experience in since the 1950s. Critical gaps exist: (1) Limited understanding of combined microgravity, isolation, and radiation effects on executive function, decision-making, and sensorimotor control in *cislunar* environments, impacting cognitive performance (e.g., increased errors, impaired judgment); (2) Insufficient countermeasures for radiation-induced fatigue, nausea, cognitive deficits, and sensorimotor dysfunction, acutely impairing cognitive & physical capabilities on prolonged cislunar missions (unlike shorter LEO missions); (3) Inadequate mitigation of bone loss, muscle atrophy, and other musculoskeletal changes, degrading physical performance beyond what`s seen in LEO. This panel identifies these vulnerabilities and explores advanced and novel countermeasures.
MENTAL HEALTH	Data to Decision: Optimizing Cognitive Performance for the Operational Environment	Warfighter cognitive readiness is the bedrock of mission success in complex, high-stakes environments. While significant advances have been made in monitoring hardware and software, capturing a real-time, actionable picture of a service member`s cognitive state remains an unmet challenge. This session aims to highlight translational research that transforms multi-modal data into tangible performance advantages and long-term resilience. We invite abstracts addressing the full lifecycle of cognitive performance. Submissions should focus on one of the following three key areas: (1) Real-Time Assessment and Prediction, (2) Personalized Optimization and Training, (3) Long-Term Resilience and Restoration.
MENTAL HEALTH	Emerging Psychological Health Threats in Large-Scale Combat Operations	Breakout session will address threats to mental health and functioning in large-scale combat operations, lessons learned from the war in Ukraine and implications for mental health casualties. Focus should be on research and interventions in development to counter these threats from pre-deployment readiness to in combat solutions.
MENTAL HEALTH	Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Military Health, Readiness, & Performance	Abstracts should address (1) Applications of ML/AI in warfighter medical readiness (e.g. psychological health, en route care, ROI, skills training, occupational exposure, musculoskeletal injury, women`s health, etc.); (2) Description of applied algorithms or analytical methods with real data; (3) Leveraging computational resources with practical and ethical applications, (4) validation and supporting information with real data.
MENTAL HEALTH	Precision Readiness: Integrating Pharmacogenomics to Enhance Warfighter Health	Modern military health landscape faces the dual challenges of treating complex conditions like PTSD and chronic pain while ensuring maximum medical readiness and deployability of the force. By analyzing how a service member`s genetic profile affects their response to medications, Pharmacogenomics(PGx) offers a powerful tool for creating personalized therapeutic strategies. The goal is moving beyond reactive treatment to a future of predictive, personalized, and precision-based care that enhances warfighter health, resilience, and overall mission readiness.
MENTAL HEALTH	Role of the Military Family in Supporting Warfighter Readiness	Abstracts should address: (1) Ways family related stressors can harm readiness, (2) The role of programs and supports in supporting military family readiness, and/or (3) Supporting families during deployments to help service members stay deployed.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Accelerating MSKI Rehabilitation & Improving Return to Duty Assessments: Arctic Challenges	Musculoskeletal injuries (MSKI) continue to be the largest threat to military medical readiness, and MSKI occurrence is a leading risk factor for subsequent MSKI. Abstracts should focus on novel rehabilitation therapies and those that challenge dogma, as well as return to duty (RTD) assessments to optimize post-injury physical performance and reduce re-injury with emphasis on MSKI and RTD challenges in arctic environments. Abstracts should address at least one of the following topics: (1) epidemiology/characterization of arctic-environment MSKI; (2) novel rehabilitation strategies to accelerate RTD following common or high-risk arctic MSKI, (3) understanding the existing state and gaps/challenges in RTD assessments for common or high-risk MSKI, (4) RTD assessments to reduce reinjury rates. Abstracts should prioritize non-surgical and pre-hospitalization strategies but may include surgical interventions in the appropriate context.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Exoskeletal Solutions & Amputation-focused Research on Surgical or Rehabilitation Outcomes	Abstracts should address innovative solutions, surgical interventions, and treatments is Service members that will use prosthetic and exoskeletal technologies for return-to-duty activities, to include: (1) medical devices that facilitate rapid return to duty without evacuation to Role 4; (2) optimization of the interface between the user and the device; and/or (3) surgical interventions that optimally prepare the limb for prosthetic use.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Integrating Holistic & Technological Approaches for Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention	Abstracts should address: (1) Holistic approaches to mitigate musculoskeletal injury; (2) Technological tools and strategies to mitigate musculoskeletal injury; and/or (3) Situations where a prioritize holistic and/or technological approach is beneficial to mitigate musculoskeletal injury.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Solutions to Optimize and Accelerate Recovery from Musculoskeletal Injury	Musculoskeletal injuries are the largest threat to the medical readiness of the force. Abstracts should address treatment of musculoskeletal injuries with a focus on optimization of outcomes and/or return to duty. Abstracts may address any of the following topics: (1) understanding rates of musculoskeletal injury, (2) treatment interventions to accelerate recovery and return to duty, and (3) solutions to optimize recovery and return to duty. This session focuses on musculoskeletal injuries sustained during active duty and does not focus on injury prevention, neurological conditions, or surgical techniques.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Traumatic Wound Healing:  Regeneration of Musculoskeletal & Neural Tissues	Abstracts should address traumatic wound healing and recovery to promote musculoskeletal and neural tissue regeneration. Topics can include: (1) muscle and/or nerve regeneration; (2) proper wound closure; (3) minimization of scar formation.
NEUROMUSCULAR SKELETAL	Warfighter Neck & Back Pain: Mechanisms to Modeling to Information Guidance	Abstracts should address specific neck and back issues that impact deployment readiness. Topics of interest include: (1) quantitative approaches to determine mechanisms of injury; (2) modeling/analytic approaches to describe injury/disorder and inform decision guidance tools; and/or (3) decision guidance systems to inform prevention and treatment.
OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES	Directed Energy Medical Research for the Future Fight	Directed Energy Weapons have become important tools in the force continuum, with capabilities including intermediate-force and counter-materiel applications. Health research characterizing DE injuries and informing medical countermeasures to the effects of DE exposures (non-ionizing, modulated acoustic) provides military medical personnel with reassurance for management of injuries from what has been historically low collateral damage capabilities. Abstracts should expand upon existing research that informs DE health effects parameterization and the consequences of exposures to known DE weapons and/or systems (DoD and/or adversarial), with research findings supporting health readiness solutions. Topics should address efforts to improve understanding of DE injury modeling, task performance impact, detection & diagnosis of DE injuries, treatment & management of wounds (physical & behavioral) from DE exposure and Force Health Protection measures.
OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES	Human Performance Optimization in Cold-Weather & High-Altitude Environments	Executing missions or providing medical care at high-altitude and/or cold environments create significant operational challenges for warfighters. Exposure to extreme cold (including cold-water immersion) or high-altitude undermines performance and increases risk for cold-weather injuries or high-altitude illnesses, both of which compromise the health, readiness, and effectiveness of warfighters. Abstracts submitted to this session should address any of the following topics with a specific focus on extreme cold and/or high-altitude environments: (1) Sustaining physical and cognitive performance; (2) Injury and illness prevention, including physiological countermeasures such as therapeutics, nutrition, or supplementation; (3) Gear, clothing, and human factor considerations; (4) Medical treatment of cold-weather injuries and high-altitude illnesses.
OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES	Novel Methods for Identifying, Mitigating & Determining Health Impacts of OEH Exposures	Abstract should address: (1) Modernized/automated OEH sensors/sampling, (2) Automated Health and/or Mission Risk Assessment capability, (3) Novel sampling/analysis methods, (4) Adverse cellular/molecular responses associated with operational exposures, 5. Computational modeling of biologic systems and response to complex exposures to further risk prediction, 6. Bioindicators/biomarkers of exposure(s) that indicate negative health outcomes.
OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES	Ops in a Nuclear Environment: Ensuring Medical Readiness & Preparing for Complex Injuries	This session explores research and strategies for managing acute radiological emergencies in military conflicts. The session will delve into the complex pathophysiology of ionizing radiation (IR) injuries. Abstracts should emphasize translation of research into medical practice, enhancing immediate response and long-term resilience of military personnel. Topics of interest include: (1) Development of safe and effective prophylaxis for IR exposure, (2) Biodosimetry for rapid and accurate assessment of radiation injury, (3) Strategies to facilitate approval of medical countermeasures under The Animal Rule, including organ-on-a-chip, multi-omic analyses, etc., (4) Strategies to mitigate, triage, and treat radiation combined injuries, particularly for mass casualty events, (5) Identification of sub-lethal effects that can impact military operations, (6) Long-term care considerations in austere environments.
OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES	Warfighter Exertional Illness & Operations in Extreme Environments	Warfighters operate in a variety of austere environments—including hot and underwater settings, and surveillance-heavy terrains. These conditions can increase physiological strain, degrade physical and cognitive performance, unmask underlying health issues, and heighten the risk of exertional illnesses such as heat illness, rhabdomyolysis, and sudden cardiac collapse. This session focuses on the interplay between physical activity and environmental stress, exploring mechanisms of exertional illness, performance degradation, and operational risk for future combat. Abstracts are sought that explore mechanisms of exertional illness and environmental stress, as well as approaches to optimize performance and readiness of the warfighter. Submissions should address: (1) The causes, risk factors, and mechanisms of exertional illnesses and performance degradation in training and operational environments, (2) Methods and interventions to optimize, measure, and sustain both physical and cognitive performance, and (3) Strategies to mitigate risk, reduce injuries and optimize RTD, including training adaptations, monitoring tools, practice guidelines, technology, and psychological resilience.
SENSORY SYSTEMS	Auditory & Vestibular Health: Combat Support, Injury Mitigation, & Technological Advancements	Reducing the risk of auditory and vestibular injury (including visual perception and balance disturbance) and enhancing performance are essential for warfighter safety and mission success. This session will explore health and performance of the auditory and vestibular systems, injury mitigation, performance enhancement, assessment, treatment, and clinical implementation. Abstracts should address novel research in one or more areas of auditory and balance health: (1) warfighter performance impact; (2) advancements in measurement and diagnosis; (3) innovations in mitigation strategies (e.g., advanced hearing protection, communication systems, noise dosimetry, custom earplugs, fit verification, 3D scanning/printing); (4) progress in treatment methodologies; or (5) workforce innovations. "
SENSORY SYSTEMS	Saving Servicemembers` Sight	Eyesight essential for warfighter function. Combat injuries can be complex and lead to long term visual impairment. Abstracts in this session should address: (1) Combat-relevant models of traumatic ocular injury; (2) Novel devices or treatments to diagnose or stabilize ocular injuries and minimize vision loss in a deployed environment; (3) New surgical techniques, procedures, or devices that can enhance visual recovery, quality of life, and return to duty after ocular trauma, (4) Elucidating the epidemiology of combat eye injuries and illness so that leaders can make better informed decisions.
TBI/BLAST	Drugs/Devices for Battlefield Brain Trauma	Breakout session will address the latest research supporting therapeutics or devices aimed at treating battlefield brain trauma. Priority given to drugs or devices which can be used in prolong care situations to improve mortality and outcomes of injured warfighters.
TBI/BLAST	Managing the Golden Hour & Beyond: Innovative TBI Care in Contested Combat Environments	The intent of this session is to present research on current or near-future (within 3 years) systems, devices, and methods that address the following: (1) Capabilities to assess, diagnose and monitor TBI at or near point of injury, (2) Treatment interventions for TBI at or near point of injury to maintain combat effectiveness, prevent overuse, and dangers of long-range medical evacuations in LSCO, (3). Capabilities to better inform nearby Role 2 on details of Warfighter TBI to better ready the Role 2 for more immediate interventions. Data-driven presentations that fall into one or more of these categories are welcome.
TBI/BLAST	Progress & Efforts toward the NASEM TBI Consensus Report - Eight Recommendations	Abstracts should address and demonstrate successful efforts and ongoing actions of at least one of the eight recommendations from the NASEM TBI Consensus Study Report : (1) Create and implement updated TBI classification system; (2) Integrate acute/long-term person/family-centered TBI management; (3) Reduce unwarranted variability and gaps in administrative and clinical care guidance to ensure high-quality TBI care; (4) Enhance awareness and identification of TBI by health care providers and the public; (5) Establish and reinforce local and regional integrated TBI care delivery systems; (6) Integrate TBI system of care and research into a learning health care system; (7) Improve quality and expand the range of TBI studies and study designs; (8) Create a national framework and implementation plan for improving TBI care. Reference: https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/25394
TBI/BLAST	Sustaining Brain Health Readiness against Emerging Threats in the Operational Environment	Abstract should address: (1) emerging evidence related to characterization of warfighter brain health related health and performance effects on Service Members from repeated low level blast overpressure exposure in the training environment and implications for occupational exposure limit development, (2) emerging evidence related to BOP injury mechanisms leveraging objective measures obtained from human and relevant advanced pre-clinical models, and (3) emerging evidence related to duty-limiting threats to warfighter brain health in the operational environment including low and high level blast exposure, stress, and other effects related to autonomous platforms. "