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Hearings

Traumatic Brain Injury Related Vision Issues

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | 10:00 AM Room 334 Cannon House Office Building

Tags: Oversight and Investigations

Opening Statement

Hon. Harry E. Mitchell, Chairman, and a Representative in Congress from the State of Arizona
Hon. Corrine Brown, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida
Hon. Ginny Brown-Waite, Ranking Republican Member, and a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida

Panel: 1

Staff Sergeant Brian K. Pearce, USA (Ret.), Mechanicsville, VA, and Angela M. Pearce, (U.S. Army Combat Veteran)

Petty Officer Glenn Minney, USN (Ret.), (U.S. Navy Combat Veteran), Frankfort, OH

Thomas Zampieri, Ph.D., Blinded Veterans Association, Director of Government Relations

Panel: 2

Randolph S. Marshall, M.D., M.S., Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, and Program Director, Vascular Neurology Fellowship Training Program, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, and Chief, The Neurological Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY, on behalf of NovaVision, Inc.

Accompanied By

Navroze S. Mehta, NovaVision, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mary Warren, M.S., OTR/L, SCLV, FAOTA, Director, Graduate Certification in Low Vision Rehabilitation Program, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, and, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Health Professions, on behalf of Performance Enterprises and Dynavision 2000, Ontario, Canada

Gayle Clarke, Neuro Vision Technology Pty. Ltd., Chief Executive Officer, Torrensville, Australia

Panel: 3

James Orcutt, M.D., Veterans Health Administration, Chief of Ophthalmology, Office of Patient Care Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Barbara Sigford, M.D., Ph.D., Veterans Health Administration, National Program Director for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Glenn Cockerham, M.D., Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Chief of Ophthalmology, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Accompanied By

Gregory L. Goodrich, Ph.D., Optometry Research Fellowship Program, Supervisory Research Psychologist and Coordinator, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Colonel (P) Loree K. Sutton, M.D., USA, Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), Director, Department of Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, Department of the Army, U.S. Department of Defense

Accompanied By

Major General Gale S. Pollock, Chief, United States Army Nurse Corps, Department of the Army, Deputy Surgeon General for Force Management, U.S. Department of Defense

Traumatic Brain Injury Related Vision Issues.

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