Pulse of Army Medicine 2026 E-Edition

Table of Contents

January

• Hope for the Best, Train for the Worst: Modernizing Army Medicine's Premier Health Physics Course for Multi-Domain Operations and Large-Scale Combat Operations
  By MAJ Matthew C. Brim, CPT Joshua D. Salazar, and CPT Gabriela Montañez

February

• AMEDD Restructure: Impacts to the Mission and Readiness of the Force
  By CPT Maria P. Ong, CPT Nicholas McGregor, and ENS Gavin Clark
• Aiming at a False Target: Medical Readiness Wargames Reveal Goodhart's Law
  By LTC Franklin Annis, LTC David A. Gonski, MAJ Jace Rivard, MAJ Jarrod L. Nicholson, CPT Lance Jandreau, and MSG Andrew D. Baker
• Digital Readiness: Preparing the Future Force for a Battlefield without Electronic Devices
  By CPT Brittany Leonard
• Wired for Readiness: The Role of Wearable Technology and AI in Military Preventative Medicine
  By 2LT Kinley DeSpain and Dr. Hanna Jensen

March

• ‌Subterranean Role 1 Medical Facility Experiment for Large Scale LSCO: Lessons Learned from One of the First Medical Company (Area Support) to Conduct Subterranean Role 1 Medical Operations
  By 1LT Leoniel O. Rodriguez Rosas, CPT Ryan C. Brown, and 1SG Sakeena Lites
• Clinical and Strategic Lessons from Syria: Evolving the Role of the Battalion Aid Station
  By MAJ Cheryl L. Miller, CPT Thomas W. Graham III, and 1LT Aimee M. Feary
• Gator Hole: A Subterranean Exercise
  By MAJ Orphelia Moraga
• ‌Advancing Competence in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS)
  By By: LTC Samuel Teague, MAJ Wesley Snow, COL Sean Hipp, and SFC Jamez White
• Forging Medical Leaders: A Proposal for the Decision-Centric Medical Staff Ride
  By MAJ Graham Clark
• Patient Regulation in a Multinational, Multi-Corps LSCO Conflict
  By LTC Brian A. Mason
• Survive and Thrive: Requirements for Army Medical Forces in 2040
  By Frank J. Abbott
• Beyond Care: Forging Readiness with Live Fire Exercises
  By CPT Sean Flournoy

April

• Enhancing Combat Support to Multidomain Operations: A Critical Appraisal and Proposal for Standardizing Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for the US Army
  By CPT Ryan A. Stevens MD, MBA, RDMS, MAJ Chelsea Ausman MD, RDMS, LTC Aicha Hull, MD, CPT Theodore McLean MD, LTC Melissa Myers, MD, MAJ Renato Rapada, DO and MAJ Kristine Jeffers, MD

May

• Hold Capacity: The Key to Conserve Combat Power
  By LTC Vern Campigotto, MAJ Richard Skinner, CPT Hannah Dalke, CPT Gabriel Lizama
• Mass Casualty Management: A Guide for Standardizing Mass Casualty Response
  By SGM Michael Remley, Col Steve Rush, SGM Jake Brown, LTC Andrew Schaffrinna, MSG Christopher Hutchison, Mrs. Shelia Savell, COL (retired) Stacy A. Shackelford, COL (retired) Russ Kotwal
• From Caregiver to Combat Multiplier: Army Nursing in Large-Scale Combat Operations
  By MAJ Teresa Rios-Rodriguez

June

• Closing the Gap: A Combined Lyophilized Product Strategy for Forward Resuscitation
  By SFC Jeffrey R. Wadford
• LSCO in USINDOPACOM Theater: A Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment Deployment
  By CPT Nathan D. Brindley
• Home Station to Hospitalization: 32 Bed Field Hospitals APS Draw, Deployment and Validation
  By MSG Joshua Blair, LTC Jennifer D. Wilson, and MAJ Justin Boyd
• Annual Physical Therapy-Led Musculoskeletal Screening As a Medpros Requirement: Closing a Combat Power Preservation Gap for Multidomain Operations
  By CPT Thomas Petersen

July

• Sensing, Shielding and Protecting the Force: Medical as a Linchpin of CBRN Defense
  By MAJ Sarah S. Sanjakdar, Shane A. Kasten, Robert L. von Tersch, COL Kurt E. Schaecher, and LTC Brandon S. Pybus
• Closing the Clinical Readiness Gap: Mandating a Transition-to-Practice Program for 68C Soldiers in Support of LSCO
  By CPT Katlyn Stinnett
• Budgeting For Expendable Medical Materiel In The Operating Force
  By CPT LTC Perry C. “Chet” Sosebee, CW2 Stephen W. Iwasko III, and MAJ David S. Coon
• Genetic Diseases in Children of U.S. Military Service Members: Data Strategies Current Therapies, and Leveraging Federal Resources for Global Impact
  By MAJ Justin T. Albrecht
• Conserving The Fighting Strength: What the Modern Battlefield Demands of the Behavioral Health Officer
  By CPT Sarah Duff, LCSW, BCD
• Preserving Combat Power: Executing Combat & Operational Stress Control in Large-Scale Combat Operations
  By CPT Sarah Duff, LCSW, BCD
• The Human Domain as a Decisive Line of Effort: Integrating Behavioral Health into Operational Design in Large-Scale Combat Operations
  By CPT Sarah Duff, LCSW, BCD

August

• The Need for the Integration of Preventative Medicine in Multinational Large-Scale Combat Operations: Lessons From Talisman Sabre 2025
  By CPT Daniel J Williamson, PhD, MPH
• Veterinary Abbreviated Injury Scale: A New Frontier in K9 Trauma Care
  By CPT Danielle Rogers, DVM
• How Mobile Must Medicine Become? Lessons from Project Iron Steed: Rethinking Medical Mobility in Large Scale Combat Operations
  By LTC Yu-Sheng (Dave) Chen and MAJ Brandi Gervais
• The Multimodal Imperative: Modernizing Patient Movement in Contested Environments
  By LTC David J Preczewski and Mr. Peter Huggins
• Health Care as Two Words
  By Avinash R. Chaurasia MD and Allison Ferro PhD, MHA, RN
• Waiting is Unacceptable: Advancing Utilization of Unmanned Aerial System in Preventive Medicine
  By MAJ Nirav Pankaj Patel, MPH

September

• My Journey To Battalion Command – Part I
  By LTC Aaron S. Griffin