Operational Medicine Symposium & Technology Showcase 2024 | Defense Strategies Institute | 25 March 2024 | Henry B. González Convention Center, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205

One of the largest and most influential military medical events in North America for senior medical officials, clinicians, government leaders, and solution providers. OpMed offers the unique opportunity to learn, network and engage with military medical professionals in an information driven, networking focused environment.

Each year this foremost symposium provides an opportunity for the services, medical units, industry partners and practitioners to advance military medical knowledge, techniques, and combat skills to support the delivery of high-quality healthcare in operational environments. Attend for the opportunity to explore prospects and partnerships with operational leaders and key decision makers who are at the forefront of improving warfighter health, strength, and survivability.

Symposium will bring together senior leaders from across the military, government healthcare agencies, academia, and industry to explore the optimization of military medicine through the modernization and implementation of policies, education, training, research & development, and emerging technologies to maximize warfighter health, strength, and survivability. As the United States recognizes the potential for a future high-end fight marked by mass casualties, the Operational Medicine Symposium will explore how to sustain life at the point of injury and beyond.

The Symposium will explore topics in operational medicine such as traumatic brain injuries, burn care treatment, infectious disease prevention, psychological stressors, contested logistics, tactical combat casualty care, and more. Speakers will address how the Military Health System is supporting the National Defense Strategy to prepare for large scale combat operations by ensuring a ready medical force and a medically ready force. Join over 1,000 individuals at the premier military medical event to hear medical experts, practitioners, and clinicians from across the military medical community discuss how to maximize care for the wounded and injured, including at the point of injury, en route, and in facility on land, sea, or aerospace.

2024 Speakers

The Honorable Lester Martinez-Lopez
MD, MG (Ret), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

Brig Gen John Andrus
USAF, MD Joint Staff Surgeon

MG Jill Faris, USA
Director, Office of the Joint Surgeon General, National Guard Bureau

Maj Gen Sean T. Collins, USAF
Air National Guard Assistant to the Surgeon General for the Department of the Air Force and Space Force, and Director of Space Force Medical Operations

Maj Gen Jeannine Ryder, USAF, NC
Commander, Air Force Medical Agency (FOA), Chief of Air Force Nurse Corps

MG Joseph Marsiglia
USA Commanding General, 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support), Army Reserve

BG Clinton Murray
USA, Commanding General, US Army Medical Center of Excellence

RDML Guido Valdes
USN, MD, Commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific; Director, Medical Corps, Brig Gen Robert

Bogart, USAF
Commander, 711th Human Performance

COL Jennifer Gurney,
USA, MD, Chief, Joint Trauma System

Chief Master Sergeant Taliah Wilkerson, USAF
Senior Enlisted Leader, Medical Education and Training Campus

CAPT Lynelle Boama
USN, MD, Director of Maritime Operations, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

2024 Sponsors

LEAD DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Leidos

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Humacyte
• Smith Nephew

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Accenture Federal Services
• DLH
• Thornhill Medical

REGISTRATION SPONSOR:
• Intel

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Moderna

LOUNGE SPONSOR:
• American Systems

WIFI SPONSOR:
• Parsons

LUNCHEON SPONSOR:
• ManTech

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Zoll
• Tier1
• Hamilton Medical