Third Estate Sunday Review: Senate Veterans Affairs Committee

Third Estate Sunday Review: Senate Veterans Affairs Committee

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Meeting of the Research Advisory Committee
on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses

June 28-29, 2010
Veterans Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, Washington, DC

Agenda Monday, June 28, 2010
8:00 – 8:30 Informal gathering, coffee
8:30 – 8:35 Welcome, introductory remarks Mr. Jim Binns, Chairman
Res Adv Cmte Gulf War Illnesses
8:35 – 9:30 Case report: long-term cognitive COL Jonathan Newmark
sequelae of sarin exposure Joint Program Executive Office for
Chemical/Biological Defense
Department of Defense
9:30 – 10:15 Effects of military service on the brain Dr. Michael Weiner
San Francisco VA Medical Center
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Organophosphate exposure and cognition: Dr. Alvin Terry
Novel mechanisms of neurotoxicity Medical College of Georgia
11:15 – 12:00 Neural Stem cell dysfunction and its Dr. Ashok Shetty
implications on memory and mood in a Durham VA Medical Center
rat model of Gulf-War illness
12:00 – 12:45 Proteomic analysis of cellular response to Dr. Michael Mullan
Biological warfare agents and cognitive Tampa VA Medical Center
function in animal models Dr. Fiona Crawford
Roskamp Institute
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:30 ALS rates in Gulf War veterans Dr. Ronnie Horner
University of Cincinnati
2:30 – 3:15 Magneto-encephalography (MEG) Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos
patterns in neurological diseases Minneapolis VA Medical Center
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Committee Discussion: VA Gulf War Mr. Jim Binns, Chairman
Task Force Report Dr. Kimberly Sullivan
Res Adv Cmte Gulf War Illnesses
4:30 – 5:00 Public comment
Meeting of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses