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DEMOCRATIC PRESS RELEASE
July 13, 2007
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Holds Symposium on Traumatic Brain
Injury
Washington, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob
Filner, along with members of the Committee, will meet to discuss ways
to provide treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which is
considered by many to be the signature injury of the war in Iraq. Among
veterans and service members from Iraq and Afghanistan treated at Walter
Reed for injuries of any type, approximately 65% have TBI as a primary
diagnosis or simultaneous injury. Medical doctors, neuropsychologists,
researchers and family members will attend the symposium to discuss the
health care needs of our returning service members. This symposium
continues the series of roundtable discussions that the Committee will
hold throughout the 110th Congress.
WHAT:
Full Committee Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury
WHEN:
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
10:00 a.m.
WHO:
Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Ronald M. Ruff, Ph.D., San Francisco Clinical Neurosciences, National
Academy of Neuropsychology
Jim C. Schraa, Psy.D., Brain Injury Association of America
Henry Lew, M.D., Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University
Medical Center, Medical Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation Center ,VA
Palo Alto Health Care System
Ross D. Zafonte, D.O., American Academy of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation
Orest B. Boyko, M.D., Ph.D., Brain Matters, Inc.
Jeffrey Eliot Galpin, M.D., Brain Matters, Inc.
Meredith Beck, National Policy Director, Wounded Warriors Project
Richard Hodder, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., Medical Director, Northeast
Center for Special Care
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics,
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Dave Woodruff, Chairman, Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain
Injury
Mr. Woodruff accompanied by Rene Bardorf, Executive Director
Peter J. Bunce, Family Member of TBI Veteran
WHERE:
334 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
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Larry Scott
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