Dr. Michael Roy gives a presentation on warfighter brain health, titled, “Heavy Weapons Training and the Brain: Lessons Learned about the Sub-concussive Blast from the INVestigating training AssoCiated blasT pAthology (INVICTA) study,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium, held in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 6.

Heather Mahaney, with the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence, gives a presentation titled, “Demographic Characteristics and Outcomes of Active Duty Service Members with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury 2020 – 2023,” during the DOD’s annual four-day 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 15.

Dr. Lester Martinez-López, the Department of Defense’s assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, visits the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s exhibit during the DOD’s annual four-day 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 15.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Brandon Taylor, director of the Defense Health Agency's Public Health directorate, visits a field hospital tent while viewing exhibits by the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium on Aug. 16 in Kissimmee, Florida.