VCURES Invited to Speak and Participate at DOD Consensus Conference on Preclinical Models of Hemorrhage

Rao Ivatury, MD: VCURES Associate Director and Chairman VCUHS Division of Trauma Surgery was selected to speak at a Consensus Conference entitled: Preclinical Models of Hemorrhage With and Without Head Injury (http://www.traumamodels.org/). The conference was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command and was held in Chantilly, VA and held March 12-14, 2002 . The conference focused on the difficult task of selecting and creating the most appropriate preclinical models of injury reflective of the combat setting. Invited speakers were selected based on the laboratory and clinical expertise in various aspects of trauma care.

Dr. Ivatury's presentation was entitled: Metabolic End-Points, and focused on the use of various tissue specific makers of tissue oxygenation as end-points in the development of appropriate preclinical models of traumatic shock. Other conference attendees from VCURES included Kevin Ward, MD Associate VCURES Director and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, James Terner, PhD, VCURES Senior Investigator and Professor of Chemistry, and Roger Loria, PhD, Senior VCURES Investigator and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.