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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – (Aug. 26, 2024) – U.S. Navy Cmdr. Rachel Werner, of Cocoa Beach, Fla., Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio’s deputy chief science director, served as a breakout session co-moderator for Directed Energy Health Effects Research for the Warfighter during the 2024 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. Presentations within the session included Suprathreshold RF Injury Effects: Simulating Exposures Beyond the Standard, Damage Assessment and Histological Analysis of Suprathreshold Near-Infrared Laser Exposures…, Hazard Analysis for Dual Band Radar Operations, and A Digital Ophthalmoscope for the Automatic Detection of Laser Lesions. The 2024 MHSRS brings together military, government, academia, and industry experts for four days of critical conversations and intensive idea sharing. Presenters will share their latest research findings and challenges on topics including combat casualty care, military operational medicine, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, medical simulation and information sciences, military infectious diseases, and the radiation health effects. NAMRU San Antonio is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the Department of Defense (DoD) and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Md. Its mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of DoD personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)