Hearings » Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment and Research: Moving Ahead Toward Recovery

Subcommittee on Health

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment and Research: Moving Ahead Toward Recovery

Opening Statements

Witness Testimonies

  • Panel 1
  • Colonel Charles W. Hoge, M.D., USA, Director, Division of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of the Army, U.S. Department of Defense

  • Panel 2
  • Carolyn M. Baum, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, Immediate Past President, American Occupational Therapy Association, and Professor, Occupational Therapy and Neurology, Elias Michael Director of the Program in Occupational Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • David Matchar, M.D., Member, Committee on Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, and Director and Professor of Medicine, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Mark D. Wiederhold, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, President, Virtual Reality Medical Center, San Diego, CA

  • Panel 3
  • Thomas J. Berger, Ph.D., Chair, National PTSD and Substance Abuse Committee, Vietnam Veterans of America
  • Todd Bowers, Director of Government Affairs, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

  • Panel 4
  • Ira Katz, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Mental Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Accompanied By:
  • Matthew Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for PTSD, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Panel 5
  • Submissions for the Record 

  • Joseph L. Wilson, Deputy Director, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission, American Legion
  • Adrian M. Atizado, Assistant National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans
  • Christopher Needham, Senior Legislative Associate, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
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