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Forward2026 Nov CCSS: Healthcare Innovations: Catalyzing the Future of Patient Care Delivery
Clinical Communities Speaker Series
Learn how innovation is driving new approaches to military healthcare, from improving patient care and outcomes to supporting a more ready and resilient force.
Virtual event on Thursday, November 5, from 7:45 AM to 3:45 PM ET
Overview
The Clinical Communities Speaker Series aims to advance the skills, strategies, and competence of healthcare providers and teams across the military health system. Virtual presentations draw on military and civilian experts from academia, government, and clinical care settings to address professional practice gaps among a wide range of healthcare professions. By focusing on clinical best practices, interprofessional learning, and military readiness, participants are empowered to optimize health outcomes for uniformed service members and their families through better individual and collaborative care practices.
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Session Agenda
- Beyond the Naked Eye: Advancing Bruise Detection and Documentation Across All Skin Tones
- Testosterone: Physiology, Deficiency, and Screening in the Military
- Beyond Selection: Tools to Promote Long-Term Submariner Psychological Readiness and Retention
- Employee and Patient Expectations Today and in 2040: An Intergenerational View
- Restoring the Face of the Fight: Interdisciplinary Innovation at the DHA Center of Excellence for Maxillofacial Restoration
- Moral Prophylaxis for Combat Medicine: Preparing Clinicians for Moral Injury
Target Audience
This activity provides continuing education for athletic trainers, case managers, dentists and allied dental staff, dietitians, kinesiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physician associates/physician assistants, physicians,1 psychologists, and social workers across the Military Health System.
1 MOC credit available for select sessions.
Presentation slides will be released immediately before each session.
Course summary
Healthcare Innovations: Catalyzing the Future of Patient Care Delivery
Thursday, November 5, 2026, from 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET
| Time (ET) | Title and Speaker(s) | |
| 0745 – 0750 | Welcome Remarks Air Force Col Zoe Woolston | |
| 0750 – 0800 | Moderator Cmdr. Karima Ayesh, DMD | |
| 0800 – 0900 | Session 01: Beyond the Naked Eye: Advancing Bruise Detection and Documentation Across All Skin Tones | |
Katherine Scafide, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, FAAFS | ||
| 0900 – 0910 | Break | |
| 0910 – 1010 | Session 02: Testosterone: Physiology, Deficiency, and Screening in the Military | |
| Army Maj. Theodore Crisostomo-Wynne, M.D. Urologist and Andrologist, Madigan Army Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University Tacoma, Wash. | ||
| 1010 – 1020 | Break | |
| 1020 – 1120 | Session 03: Beyond Selection: Tools to Promote Long-Term Submariner Psychological Readiness and Retention | |
Dominica Hernandez, Ph.D., M.A. | ||
| 1120 – 1130 | Break | |
| 1130 – 1230 | Session 04: Employee and Patient Expectations Today and in 2040: An Intergenerational View | |
John Kirk, Ph.D., Ed.D., FACHE | ||
| 1230 – 1330 | Break | |
| 1330 – 1430 | Session 05: Restoring the Face of the Fight: Interdisciplinary Innovation at the Defense Health Agency Center of Excellence for Maxillofacial Restoration | |
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Moreno, DDS, FACD, FACS Site Director, Center of Excellence in Maxillofacial Restoration | ||
| 1430 – 1440 | Break | |
| 1440 – 1445 | Administrative Remarks Alna Gopez, MSN, BSN, RNC-OB | |
| 1445 – 1545 | Session 06: Moral Prophylaxis for Combat Medicine: Preparing Clinicians for Moral Injury | |
| Army Maj. Andrew Schmitz, Th.M. Bioethics Lecturer, Army-Baylor Master of Health Administration & Master of Business Administration Programs Chaplain, U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence Fort Sam Houston, Texas Army Maj. Jonathan Lorenz, M.Div. Chaplain, Plans and Operations, Religious Affairs Defense Health Agency Falls Church, Va. | ||
Featured Faculty
Air Force Col Zoe Woolston
Director, J-7
Defense Health Agency
Alna Gopez, MSN, BSN, RNC-OB
Training Specialist
J-7 Education and Training
Defense Health Agency
Cmdr. Karima Ayesh, DMD
Navy ADDP Sub/Surface Fleet Liaison
Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command
Sigonella, Italy
Presenting Faculty
Katherine Scafide, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, FAAFS
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Co-Director, Injury Analytics Lab, College of Public Health
George Mason University
Janusz Wojtusiak, Ph.D.
Professor, Health Informatics, Department of Health Administration and Policy
Co-Director, Injury Analytics Lab, College of Public Health
George Mason University
Army Maj. Theodore Crisostomo-Wynne, M.D.
Urologist and Andrologist, Madigan Army Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University
Dominica Hernandez, Ph.D., M.A.
Research Psychologist
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory
Submarine Base New London
Justin Handy, Ph.D.
Research Psychologist
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory
Submarine Base New London
John Kirk, Ph.D., Ed.D., FACHE
Chief, Strategy Management and Foresight
Defense Health Agency
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Moreno, DDS, FACD, FACS
Maxillofacial Surgeon
Site Director, Center of Excellence in Maxillofacial Restoration
Program Director, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency
Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego
Army Maj. Andrew Schmitz, Th.M.
Bioethics Lecturer, Army-Baylor Program, Baylor University
Chaplain, U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence
Army Maj. Jonathan Lorenz, M.Div.
Chaplain, Operations and Plans, Religious Affairs
Defense Health Agency
Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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How to claim CE/CME credit
Credits are awarded by session. You may proceed to claim credit for a session you attend immediately after it ends. Click "Claim credit" next to the session below to take the course evaluation and posttest and receive your certificate.
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You must claim credit before the deadline on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 11:59pm EST.
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET
Live Session 01
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABIM
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
9:10 AM – 10:10 AM ET
Live Session 02
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABA
- ABIM
- ABS
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM ET
Live Session 03
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABA
- ABIM
- ABS
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Live Session 04
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABIM
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Live Session 05
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABIM
- ABS
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- APTA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM ET
Live Session 06
1.00 CE/CME credit
Eligible credit types
- AAPA
- ABIM
- ACPE
- ADA CERP
- ANCC
- AOTA
- APA
- ASWB
- BOC
- CCM
- CDR
- COPSKT
- IACET
- NBCC
- Non-physician CME
- Physician CME
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