WITNESS LIST

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS
SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Oversight Hearing on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
And Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Emerging trends in force and veteran health

Thursday, September 28, 2006, 10:00 a.m.
Room 334, Cannon House Office Building
 

Panel 1

Gerald Cross, M.D.
Acting Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health
Department of Veterans Affairs
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Accompanied by:

Ira R. Katz, M.D., Ph.D
Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Mental Health

and

Barbara Sigford, M.D., Ph.D
National Program Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation


COL Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., M.P.H.
Psychiatry Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General
United States Army
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

COL Charles W. Hoge, M.D.
Chief of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, Division of Neurosciences
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
United States Army
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Accompanied by:

COL Robert J. Labutta, MC
Chief, Dept. of Neurology
Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Statements for the Record

Ms. Cathleen C. Wiblemo
Deputy Director
Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Division
The American Legion
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Mr. Joy Ilem
Assistant National Legislative Director
Disabled American Veterans
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Mr. Rick Weidman
Executive Director, Policy & Government Affairs
Vietnam Veterans of America

Mr. Paul Rieckhoff
Executive Director and Founder
Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Laurie Ekstrand
Director of Health Care
U.S. Government Accountability Office