What is SOMA? The Special Operations Medical Association

The Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) organization is directed toward the education and training of the Special Forces and Special Operations Combat Medic, who are often alone and unsupported, in perilous tactical or non-tactical circumstances, and are responsible for the health care of the team and surrounding indigenous population (including non-combatant civilians). By providing this forum for military and civilian medical personnel from around the world to meet and exchange ideas, SOMA advances the science, technology, and skills of unconventional medicine which increases survivability, against the odds, for the people under their care.

What Does SOMA Do?

By providing a forum for Military and Civilian medical personnel from around the world to meet and exchange ideas, SOMA advances the science, technology, and skills of unconventional medicine which increases survivability, against the odds, for the people under the care of the Special Forces, Special Operations Combat Medic and Tactical Emergency Services Medic.

This organization is dedicated to the spirit of the Special Operations Medic, and is for those practitioners, educators, administrators, researchers and students who are either engaged or interested in medical practices within the realm of the unconventional medicine environment. The site has further been deemed to act as a conveyance for gathering and sharing information, presenting new ideologies, finding research collaborators, marketing and discussing public policy for our mutual causes, and to set a dialog for disseminating lessons learned.

Continued Medical Education

At our annual conference members and attendees attend didactic and skill proficiency training and ...

Earn Continued Medical Education Credits.
Discover new and cutting edge techniques & technology.
Meet and collaborate with people from varied communities.
Membership gets you access to one of the premiere web sites about Special Operations & Tactical Medicine.
Members can meet, discuss, collaborate and learn from each other.

Our Conference

Our annual conference will be held December 15th through December 18th, 2012 at the Tampa Covention Center.

Conference admission is $225 with a $50 discount for annual members so please consider joining SOMA

Subject Matter Experts from the all over the world attend and present at the SOMA convention. Here is a sample of a presentation from the 2011 conference, all of which are available on our members site. Our complete 2011 schedule.

SOMA 2011
Presenter	Presentation
Dr. Russ Kotwal	Improving Survivability on the Battlefield

Are you interested in being a vendor or exhibitor at SOMA? Visit the Conference Exhibitors Service Center

We are currently working on our 2012 schedule and will post it here as it is developed.

Join SOMA

If you are interested in joining SOMA you can do it in less than 5 minutes. Complete this form and pay for your membership. Lifetime membership is $1000 and all annual conference fees are included or you can pay $50/year and as a member each conference you attend will be discounted. You will also gain instant access to our members area which contains lectures and interactive training from past conference and up-to-date information about our upcoming conference.

The members site allows the organization a platform for frequent collaboration, instruction and discussion. Subject matter experts hold open forums for discussion, moderated computer-based conferences with up to 100 members and build out content areas that the membership has requested. Some of the many member benefits are...

CME / CEU Credits for healthcare professionals
- Last year conference attendees earned up to 28 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- The members web site has distributive learning modules and certificates of completion
International Military and Tactical EMS providers
- Meet Special Operations and Tactical EMS providers from more than 20 countries
Access to many of the Subject Matter Experts:
- Among the members of SOMA are the many Subject Matter Experts within the Military and Tactical Emergency Medicine Communities

Image Library

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Tinia Allen is the SOMA customer service representative for the Special Operations Medical Association. To request customer service fill in the form below:

Pat Sutherland is the Executive Director of Meeting Matters Plus Incorporated (MMPI) and leads the SOMA conference planning committee. Please fill out the form below to contact her:

SOMA LTC Robert Harrington is the acting President of the Special Operations Medical Association. Please fill out the form below to contact him:

Linked Education, LLC Our webmaster and design company is Linked-Education, LLC. if you are having troubles accessing the SOMA members site please let us know:

TMI TMI handles the SOMA conference registration, vendor booth sales and the onsite enrollment for the conference.

Exhibit booths can be obtained here and the Exhibitor Service Center login is here