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By DUSTIN SENGER
Area Support Group Qatar public affairs
CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar – Over 130 participants gathered to begin a three-day medical logistics conference at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, on March 11. The discussion forum combined medical logistics consultants, unit commanders and individuals trained as medical logisticians throughout southwest Asia and the United States.
"We are here to save lives with medical supplies," said Air Force Capt. Scott Miller, a medical supply officer serving in Iraq. The large assembly is focused on advancing medical logistics support throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, to include Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
"This is the largest medical logistics conference in theater," said Army Lt. Col. Scott Carpenter, from Morehead City, N.C., regarding the large assembly of personnel in the Middle East. "We are all here to help identify and resolve issues – to better support the combat corpsmen, field medics and doctors down range." Carpenter is the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center Southwest Asia commander. His staff planned and organized the conference at Camp As Sayliyah.
"We want to get everyone on the same sheet of music," said Carpenter. "We are doing this by bringing all the team agencies into one location, to identify and discuss common medical logistics sustainment issues. We are also planning for new medical logistics information systems. This assembly also includes two to three days of sidebar discussions to further resolve issues brought up during the conference by using person-to-person logistics."
"Our whole paradigm can be shifted, regarding how we train folks, but we must discuss these changes first," said Army Col. Christopher Roan, the Theater Enterprise-Wide Logistics System program manager. "Some of these issues are simple, something to write down and think about. Others are big enough that they require major resources and involvement from all agencies. We are here to come to a common understanding."
TEWLS is a new military medical logistic system. It is expected to start improving intermediate distribution functions and materiel maintenance in 2009. The new enterprise system will remove inefficiencies and ineffective activities from the current system.
The comprehensive meetings and small working groups will improve the contributions of military medical logisticians, supporting healthcare providers in combat operations – to better provide medical supplies that save lives.
| Date Taken: | 03.12.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 03.12.2008 11:44 |
| Story ID: | 17294 |
| Location: | CAMP AS SALIYAH, QA |
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