• Point of Injury to Definitive Care

  The continuum that defines the mission.

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  This track follows care from the moment of injury through prehospital response, en route care, and damage control, into definitive treatment and the long arc of recovery that follows. It brings together the providers who live it, medics, corpsmen, paramedics, EMTs, nurses, physicians, and the recovery and rehabilitation teams who carry it forward, across every service and every civilian system, with the innovators building what they carry next.

• All-Hazards, Disaster Medicine

  Mass casualty, natural disaster, and complex emergency demand the same thing: readiness at scale when the system is overwhelmed.

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  This track connects federal, state, and regional response, emergency management, resilience and continuity operations, fire and EMS, and the disaster medicine community to the capabilities that keep response coordinated and care moving when it matters most. The best time to build resilience is before the disruption, and this track puts the people who plan for the worst day in the same room as the people building what they will need when it comes.

• Validation and Translation

  Great technology stalls in the gap between the lab bench and the field.

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  This track spotlights the testbeds, regulatory pathways, and end-user environments, from the field to the clinic to the community and the home, that move proven capability into the hands of providers faster, and the partnerships that make that path repeatable rather than one-off.

• Dual-Use and Commercialization

  The best trauma and disaster innovation serves the service member, the veteran, and the community alike.

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  This track explores the crossover between military medicine and civilian care, and the non-dilutive and commercial pathways that let a single breakthrough reach every environment where lives are on the line.

• Capital, Policy, and Government Engagement

  Sustained innovation needs sustained investment and the policy to back it.

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  This track brings appropriators, program leaders, and mission-driven and private capital into direct conversation with the companies and institutions building the future of trauma and disaster care, and takes up the policy that sustains readiness over the long haul.

• Collisions

  The breakthroughs happen where sectors meet.

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  Collisions is our cross-sector format built for exactly that: government, industry, academia, and the mission-driven and community partners who share the problem, in the same room, making the connections that don't happen anywhere else.

• Recovery at the Edge: Rehabilitation & Behavioral Health for Service Members and Veterans

  Care at the edge doesn’t end at the point of injury; it continues through every transition from military treatment facility to VA, clinic to home, and active duty to civilian life.

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  This track highlights research, clinical innovation, and implementation efforts in rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury, polytrauma, chronic pain, behavioral health and PTSD, suicide prevention, and community reintegration, especially approaches that close gaps at those transitions and foster collaboration among VA, DoD, academic, and community partners.

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