Air Force Association Symposium

Health Care: From the Clinic to the Battlefield

San Antonio, Texas

April 28, 1998

• Mr. Gary Christopherson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs
  Taking Care of Our Own [As prepared]
• Military Health Care at a Crossroad -- Surgeons General Panel
  Lt Gen Charles H. Roadman II, Air Force Surgeon General
  LG Ronald R. Blanck, Army Surgeon General
  VADM Harold Koenig, Navy Surgeon General
  Q&A Session
• Gen Lloyd W. Newton, Commander, Air Education and Training Command
  Recruiting and Training Health Care Professionals
• Ms Julie Turner, Legislative Staff, Office of Congressman Stenholm (17th District, Texas)
  Congressional Perspective on Health Care Issues
• Mr James E. Woys, Chief Operating Officer, Foundation Health Federal Services
  Industry Perspective on Health Care Management Issues
• Lt Gen David L. Vesely, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, HQ USAF
  Taking Care of Our People--The Customer's Perspective
  

Breakout Sessions

• Futuristic Visions of Health Care -- Maj Gen George Anderson, USAF (Ret.) Koop Foundation
• Clinic of the Future -- Maj John Bulick (Chief, Health Care Planning for the Health Facilities Division, Office of the Surgeon General)
• Medical Support for Operations Other Than War -- Maj Gen P.K. Carlton, Jr. (Commander, WHMC)
• Force Protection and Human Systems Research -- Col Mark Ediger (Chief, Aerospace Medicine, Air Force Medical Operations Agency)
• Imaging Technologies and Telemedicine -- Dr David W. Forslund (Los Alamos Laboratory)
• Trends in Veterans Affairs Health Care -- Dr John Howe (President, UTSA Health Science Center)
• Care and Prevention of Gulf War Syndrome Illnesses, CAPT Michael Kilpatrick, USN (Office of Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness)
• Building Healthy Communities: Disease Prevention Strategy -- Maj Gen Earl "Wynn" Mabry (Director, AF Medical Operations Agency)
• Worldwide Military Medical Operations -- Brig Gen Linda Stierle (Director, Air Force Medical Readiness Doctrine and Planning and Nursing Services)
• Nanotech/Biotech Futures in Health Care -- Col Barry H. Thompson (Director, Center for Medical and Molecular Genetics, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)