Navy Medicine researchers from across the globe convened August 19 in Kissimmee, Florida for the start of the 2019 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) to discuss the latest scientific advances and initiatives that support warfighter health, readiness, and survivability. We had a chance to catch up with Navy Medicine leaders to get their perspectives on the impact of research to the warfighter, the Fleet, and the Fleet Marine Force.
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It’s great being here at MHSRS, 2019, here in Orlando. One of the great things about MHSRS is we can bring all of our eight lines together, and it basically is an ability to show how we can do a wide range of the research that we do in the Navy. One of the major things that we’re doing is bringing innovation, and knowledge, and products to the warfighter, to keep them in the fight and then get them back into the fight.
It’s terrific to be here, down in Orlando. This is, really, one of the best meetings that we have in the MHS. It brings together all of our researchers, to really work on how do we get after supplying the right techniques, research projects, and capabilities to support the warfighter. The concept this year is research for readiness. For the Navy, we’ve got over 150 posters, and about 50 actual live presentations. So it’s terrific to be here to support that work, and to see the value that that will have in the future, as we continue to focus on readiness for the fleet and Marine Corps.
It’s always an honor to be here at MHSRS, where this year the real focus is on research for readiness. You know we’ve got over 150 poster presentations, representation from all over the field that’s looking at how we support the warfighter, both through force-health protection, which ranges the gamma from mental health conditions, and infectious disease, all the way up to blood support and advanced surgical techniques for our kinetic operations in increasing survivability on the battlefield. So it’s an honor to be here and see Navy Medicine represented so well in a joint environment.