News Release

For Immediate Release -- August 12, 2011

Media Roundtable at the 2011 Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Conference: The Tri-Service Symposium on Combat Casualty Care, Operational Medicine, and Military Human Performance

(Fort Detrick, Md.) - The U.S. Army Research and Materiel Command invites you to the 2011 Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care conference media roundtable Aug. 15 at 1:20 p.m.

The teleconference phone number for Aug. 15 is (210) 249-4234 and access code is 19083#

This year's theme is pre-hospital care. Col. Dallas Hack, director of the U.S. Army Combat Casualty Care Research Program, Col. Lorne Blackbourne, commander of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, and Capt. (retired) Frank Butler.

The ATACCC is the Department of Defenses' premier scientific meeting that focuses on the battlefield medical needs of our Nation's warfighters and on recent advances in trauma surgery and medicine. Previous ATACCC meetings have proven successful in providing the broadest possible view of combat casualty care as it is applied in the operational environment.

The conference generates intense discussion, focused meetings, and informative presentations to help identify strategies and set goals and milestones for the DOD's combat casualty care research programs.

For more information, email Tiffany Holloway at tiffany.holloway@amedd.army.mil.

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