VCURES Represented in Force at 2002 Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Meeting.

Five VCURES investigators attended the 2002 Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care (ATACCC) (http://www.usaccc.org/ataccc/) meeting in St. Pete Beach, FL September 9-13 2002. The VCURES team had 6 presentations, which was more than any nonmilitary entity at the meeting.

The ATACCC is the Department of Defense’s premier scientific meeting that addresses critical advances in trauma medicine and the unique medical needs of the warfighter. It focuses on growing and changing operational issues and the technologies available today and in the future that can be used to meet these increasingly complex goals. Nearly all of DOD's combat casualty care scientists and NASA's biomedical researchers present their latest research results.

VCURES submitted materials to the ATACCC meeting that resulted in three oral presentations and three poster presentations. These presentations profiled VCURES work that is funded by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy’s combat casualty care research programs as well as other work with casualty care implications. “The work was extraordinarily well received and really provided a high profile for VCU and VCURES with its Operation Purple Heart research program in combat casualty care. People were impressed that there was a university with a concerted effort addressing the casualty needs of the warfighter,” noted Dr. Ward.

Those VCURES investigators attending and presenting work include:

Marcus Carr , MD, PhD: Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Ivo Torres Filho MD, PhD: Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Luciano Torres: Department of Physiology
R. Wayne Barbee, PhD: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Physiology
Kevin R. Ward, MD: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Physiology

Others VCURES investigators involved in the work leading to the presentations include:

Gary Wnek, PhD: Professor and Chairman VCU Department of Chemical Engineering.
Hakam Tiba MD: Senior Research Associate. Department of Emergency Medicine
Roland Pittman, PhD: Professor of Physiology and Emergency Medicine
Rao Ivatury, MD: Professor of Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Physiology
James Terner, PhD: Professor of Chemistry
Bruce Spiess, MD: Professor of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine

You can review the abstracts presented HERE