WITNESS LIST
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS
HEARING ON SEAMLESS TRANSITION: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 10:30 a.m.
334 Cannon House Office Building

Panel

Ms. Cynthia Bascetta
Director, Veterans Health and Benefits Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office
(PDF)

Ms. Linda Koontz
Director, Information Management Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office
(PDF)

Jonathan Javitt, M.D., M.P.H.
Former Presidential Appointee
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), Health Care Delivery and Information Technology Subcommittee 
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Peter Dysert, M.D.
Chief Medical Information Officer
 Baylor University Medical Center
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Panel

Honorable Gordon H. Mansfield
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
(PDF)

To be available from the Department of Veterans Affairs for Questions:

Admiral Daniel L. Cooper
Under Secretary for Benefits

Dr. Michael Kussman
Deputy Under Secretary for Health

Mr. John Brown
Director, Seamless Transition Office

Dr. Barbara Sigford
Chief, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program Manager
Veterans Health Administration

Ms. Karen Ott
VA/DOD Liaison Office

Dr. Stephen L. Jones
Principal Deputy Assistant in the Office of Health Affairs
Office of Personnel and Readiness
U.S. Department of Defense
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Major General Ronald G. Young
Director, National Guard Bureau Joint Staff
National Guard Bureau
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Colonel Sheila Hobbs
Senior Patient Administrator, Office of the Surgeon General
United States Army
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)

Ms. Susan McAndrew
Senior Health Information Privacy Policy Specialist, Office of Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(Prepared Testimony | PDF)