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WITNESS LIST

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS

SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH

HEARING ON OPERATIONAL & MEDICAL READINESS IN THE

ACTIVE DUTY FORCE

Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 9:00 a.m.
334 Cannon House Office Building
 

PANEL 1 

Frances Murphy, M.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Under Secretary for Health
Department of Veterans Affairs
 
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Accompanied by: 

Susan H. Mather, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Public Health and Environmental Hazards
 

Craig K. Hyams, M.D.
Chief Consultant, Occupational and Environmental Health
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And: 

Ellen P. Embrey
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection & Health Affairs
Department of Defense
   
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Accompanied by: 

Michael E. Kilpatrick, M.D.
Director of Deployment Health Support
 

PANEL 2

Honorable James Holsinger, M.D.
Former Under Secretary for Health
Department of Veterans Affairs
 
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Honorable Enrique Méndez, M.D.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Department of Defense
 
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Honorable Sue Bailey, D.O.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Department of Defense
 
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Honorable Ronald R. Blanck, D.O.
Former Army Surgeon General
Department of Defense
 
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Garth Nicolson, Ph.D.
President
Institute for Molecular Medicine
 
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PANEL 3 

Honorable Warren B. Rudman
Former US Senator from New Hampshire
Former Chairman, Presidential Advisory Board on Persian Gulf War Illnesses
 
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Honorable Donald S. Riegle
Former US Senator from Michigan
Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking
 
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PANEL 4 

Steve Robinson
Executive Director
National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc.
 
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Patrick G. Eddington
Associate Director of Government Relations
Vietnam Veterans of America
   
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Paul Hayden
Associate Director of Legislation
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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