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Agenda
Radiation Combined Injury: Models, Mechanisms and Countermeasures

Symposium sponsored by:
The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) at the Uniformed Services University (USU), on the grounds of the Naval Support Activity Bethesda, in Bethesda, Maryland

Contact:
For questions about symposium events, please contact symposium chairman, Dr. Juliann G. Kiang (e-mail or 301-295-1076), or symposium officer-in-charge, LT Joshua M. Swift (e-mail or 301-295-1947).


April 5, 2012

TIME

EVENT

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7:15 

Registration (coffee & refreshments)

8:00

Welcome I
Col L. Andrew Huff, USAF, MC, SFS
Acting Director, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in Bethesda, Maryland

8:05

Welcome II
Dale C. Smith, PhD
Senior Vice President, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland

8:10 

Opening Remarks
Christopher R. Lissner, PhD
Scientific Director, AFRRI

8:15

Administrative Remarks
LT Joshua M. Swift, PhD
Research Scientist, AFRRI

8:20

Introduction to Radiation Combined Injury Program at AFRRI
Juliann G. Kiang, PhD
Program Advisor, Radiation Combined Injury, AFRRI; Professor, Department of Radiation Biology, USU

Session 1.  Animal Models

Moderator:  MAJ Eric D. Lombardini, VMD
Chief, Division of Comparative Pathology, AFRRI

8:35

Combined injury: Past, Present, and Future
G. David Ledney, PhD
Senior Principal Investigator, AFRRI

9:00

Infection Complications of Combined Injury and Antimicrobial Countermeasures
Thomas B. Elliott, PhD
Senior Principal Investigator, AFRRI

9:25

Mathematical Modeling of Combined Injury: Radiation Injury and Burns
Daniela L. Stricklin, PhD
Principal Scientist, Applied Research Associates in Arlington, Virginia

9:50

Wound Trauma Combined with Ionizing Irradiation Affects Biodosimetric Assessment
Juliann G. Kiang, PhD
Program Advisor, Radiation Combined Injury, AFRRI; Professor, Department of Radiation Biology, USU

10:15

Coffee Break

Session 2.  Mechanisms and Countermeasures

Moderators:  Col L. Andrew Huff, MD
Acting Director, AFRRI
G. David Ledney, PhD
Combined Injury Program (Ret.), AFRRI

10:25

Effect of Ionizing Radiation on Combined Skin Wound Injury
Zelmira Lazarova, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Director of Dermatologic Research Laboratories, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

10:50

Redirecting the Immune System as a Medical Countermeasure to Radiation Combined Injury
James Lederer, PhD
Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

11:15

Ghrelin as a Novel Therapy for Radiation Combined Injury
Ping Wang, MD
Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Surgery, North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York

11:40

Ciprofloxacin Increases Survival after Ionizing Radiation Combined with Wound Trauma
Risaku Fukumoto, PhD
Research Scientist, AFRRI

11:50

Ciprofloxacin Inhibits Radiation Combined Wound Trauma-Induced ATP Loss by Preserving Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
Joshua. M. Swift, PhD
Research Scientist, AFRRI

12:05

Lunch (on your own) — Group photo shoot for symposium's speakers and session chairs

1:10

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells as a Countermeasure for Radiation Combined Injury: Friend or Foe?
Nikolai V. Gorbunov, PhD
Research Scientist, AFRRI

1:35

Role of Hematopoietic Cells in Radiation Combined Injury
Benny J. Chen, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Cellular Therapy/Bone Marrow Transplant, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina

2:00

Role of Radiation-Induced Skin Damage as an Essential Aspect in Combined Injuries
COL Viktor Meineke, MD, MC, German Army
Professor and Director Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology affiliated to the University of Ulm Neuherbergstr in Munich, Germany

2:25

Macrophage Response to Ionizing Radiation and Virus Infection: Puzzling the Pathways
R. Joel Lowy, PhD
Program Advisor, Radiation Neutralization, AFRRI

2:50

Coffee Break

Session 3.  Needs, Gaps, and Requirements

Moderator:  CAPT John R. Gilstad, MD
Head, Scientific Research Department, AFRRI

3:00

Current Gaps in Radiation Combined Injury Research
Glen I. Reeves, MD
Principal Scientist, Applied Research Associates in Arlington, Virginia

3:25

Challenges in Developing Medical Countermeasures for Combined Injury
Richard Hatchett, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC

3:50

NIAID Radiation/Nuclear Medical Countermeasure Research and Development Program on Combined Radiation Injuries
Andrea DiCarlo-Cohen, PhD
Program Officer, Radiation and Nuclear Countermeasures Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland

4:15

Panel Discussion: Perspective of Radiation Combined Injury Research
Col L. Andrew Huff, USAF, MC, SFS
Acting Director, AFRRI
Terry C. Pellmar, PhD, Principal Scientist, Applied Research Associates in Arlington, Virginia
Jacqueline Williams, PhD, Professor, University of Rochester in Rochester, New York

5:15

Adjourn
 

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For questions about symposium events, please contact symposium chairman, Dr. Juliann G. Kiang (e-mail or 301-295-1076), or symposium officer-in-charge, LT Joshua M. Swift (e-mail or 301-295-1947).