Dr. Stephen Ferrara, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, presents a team award for outstanding program management to Dr. Chandar Thakur, chief, Medical Devices and Diagnostics Branch at the Defense Health Agency Research and Development-Medical Research and Development Command’s Office of Regulated Activities, at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 4. Thakur led a team of U.S. Army Office of Regulated Activities Medical Devices and Diagnostics branch and military medical product developers across Department of Defense. The team was recognized in the category, “State of the Technology: Demonstrations of Acute Diagnostic and Monitoring TBI Devices.” The team played a crucial role in achieving five Food and Drug Administration approvals of military-focused medical products since February 2024. Efforts included the Automated Processing of the Physiologic Registry for Assessment of Injury Severity, Analyzer-Traumatic Brain Injury, MEQU Fluid Warmer, Infrascanner 2500, and SymVess.
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Dr. Cory Smith, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, receives an honorable mention award for his poster, “Impact of Cold Air ...
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Maj. David Zeidler, German Federal Armed Forces Central Hospital, Koblenz, Germany, receives an honorable mention for his ...
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The “Best in Show” winner is given to Capt. Ziv Talmi Yaakov of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, ...
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Maj. Johan Schmitt, Toulon, France, receives an honorable mention award for his poster, “Injury Survivability and Death ...
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Dr. Kayla Septer, Navy Medicine Research and Development, Bethesda, Maryland, receives a second-place award for her ...
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Kyle Meetze, Safi Biotherapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Loughborough, United Kingdom, receives a second ...
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U.S. Air Force Col. William Kilgore, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, receives a first-place award for his poster, ...
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Dr. Ava Puccio, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receives a third-place award for ...
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U.S. Army Maj. Thomas Musich, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, receives an honorable mention for his poster, ...
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The best military research teams and future leaders of military health were honored during the 2025 MHSRS Awards, which ...
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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Crouch, Navy Medicine Research and Development, San Diego, California, receives an honorable ...
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Dr. Elliot Dirr, Naval Medical Research Unit, Dayton, Ohio, wins third place for his work, “Partial Pressure of Oxygen ...
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Dr. Julian Dilley, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, receives second place for his ...
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Charles Elder, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, wins first place for his work, “Leveraging Artificial ...
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Dr. Diane Bolton, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, receives a ...
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Dr. Mylea Cristner, 59th Medical Wing, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio Texas, wins first place for her entry in the ...
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Dr. Michael Roy gives a presentation on warfighter brain health, titled, “Heavy Weapons Training and the Brain: Lessons ...
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U.S. Army Lt. Col Bridgett Owens, U.S. Army of Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, ...
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Alfreda Brown, a phlebotomist with the Armed Services Blood Program at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, ...
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The 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium, held in Kissimmee, Florida, Aug. 4–7, focused on the theme, ...
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