2. Following this session, the attendee will be able to explain proposed solution sets to overcame emerging challenges and how effective those solutions have been.
3. Following this session, the attendee will be able to identify how lessons learned from partner nations can apply to the participant’s own military health system.
Panel Objectives:
- Describe operational medical challenges that impact military healthcare delivery in the context of future conflicts.
- Review potential solutions to overcome emerging challenges, highlighting the effectiveness of any solutions already being implemented.
- Outline how any lessons learned from military health system transformations the can be applied to other nations’ systems.
Opening comments by the MG Murray will include panel introductions and necessary disclosure statements, along with a brief overview of the panel rules of engagement and overview of the theme – how each panelist’s military health systems are preparing for future conflicts and lessons learned that might translate to solutions for the challenges other nations face.
MGen Malcom, the Canadian Surgeon General, will present the perspective of the Canadian Health Services in supporting the Canadian Armed Forces as they look for innovative approaches to the challenges of the evolving battlefield of the future. Capitalizing on a small, but nimble military health system requires balancing limited resources while still meeting mission objectives, and the challenges require both advancing internal capabilities and exploring external partnerships.
MG Guillaume Peleé de Saint Maurice will outline the challenges that the French military health system is facing as they organize and train to meet the needs of future conflicts and consider novelle approaches to new problem sets while still carrying out their role to keep the French Armed Forces healthy and ready to deploy.
Afterwards, Maj Gen Phil Carter, The Surgeon General of the United Kingdom, will review how the British military health system is approaching the changing landscape of health support to military operations. Recent operations have highlighted new threats and pointed out that future conflicts may involve more contested spaces where traditional medical support may be challenged, requiring inventive solution sets for success; and the pros and cons of potential solution sets will be discussed.
At the conclusion of the panelists’ remarks the floor will be open for questions from the audience and the moderator, as well as the opportunity for panelists to comment on similar challenges they have faced, time permitting.