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WITNESS LIST

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS

Subcommittee on Health
Hearing to Review the Provision of Specialized Services at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Thursday, July 23, 1998
334 Cannon House Office Building
9:30 a.m.

PANEL 1

Stephen P. Backhus
Director
Veterans' Affairs and Military Health Care Issues
Health, Education, and Human Services Division
U.S. General Accounting Office

Richard A. McCormick, Ph.D.
Co-Chairman
Committee on Care of Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans

Mr. Thomas H. Miller
Chairman
VA Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs

PANEL 2

Thomas L. Garthwaite, M.D.
Deputy Under Secretary for Health
Department of Veterans Affairs

Denis J. Fitzgerald, M.D.
Director
VISN 1

Leroy P. Gross, M.D.
Director
VISN 6

PANEL 3

Mr. Gordon H. Mansfield
Executive Director
Paralyzed Veterans of America

Mr. Thomas H. Miller
Executive Director
Blinded Veterans Association

Ms. Jacqueline Garrick
Deputy Director
National Veterans Affairs and Rehabiliation
The American Legion

Statement of Richard A. Wannemacher, Jr.
Associate National Legislative DIrector
Disabled American Veterans

Mr. William Warfield
Deputy Director of Government Relations
Vietnam Veterans Of America