Gulf War and Health: Review of the Medical Literature: Meeting Two: Agenda
Committee on Gulf War and Health
Agenda for Open Session
10:15 – 10:30 AM
Opening Remarks
George Rutherford, MD
10:30 – 11:00
“War Syndromes and Their Evaluation: From the U.S. Civil War to the Present”
Kenneth Craig Hyams, MD, MPH
Chief Consultant, Occupational and Environmental Health Strategic Healthcare Group Department of Veterans Affairs
11:00 – 11:30
“Defining Gulf War Illness: Factors, Clusters, and Diagnoses”
Howard Kipen, MD, MPH
Director, Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine Division
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University
11:30 – 12 Noon
“The Iowa Gulf War Study: Recent Findings”
Bradley N. Doebbeling, MD, MSc
Director, VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidence-based Practice
Roudebush VAMC
12 Noon – 12:30 PM
“National Gulf War Resource Center”
Steve Robinson
Executive Director, National Gulf War Resource Center
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 – 2:00
“The Cause of Multi-symptom Illnesses Following the First Gulf War”
Daniel J. Clauw, MD
Director, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center
The University of Michigan
2:00 – 2:30
“National Health Survey of Gulf War Era Veterans, Phase III”
Seth Eisen, MD, MSc
Staff Physician, St. Louis VA Medical Center
2:30 – 3:00
“Birth Defects among Children of Gulf War Veterans, and Reproductive Outcomes among Women Gulf War Veterans”
Maria Rosario Araneta, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
3:00 – 3:15
Break
3:15 – 5:00
Public Comment Period
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