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DEMOCRATIC PRESS RELEASE

July 23, 2007

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee to Hold Hearing on PTSD and Personality Disorder

Washington, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner is holding a hearing on Wednesday, July 25, to determine whether veterans given discharges due to Personality Disorders by the military are being unduly prejudiced when they go to seek health care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Chairman Filner will also direct the committee to examine the recently issued report by the Institute of Medicine that examines how the VA handles treatment and compensation claims for PTSD.

WHAT: House Veterans’ Affairs Full Committee Hearing
“PTSD and Personality Disorder: Challenges for the VA”

WHEN: Wednesday, July 25, 2007  10:00 a.m.

WHO: Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

Colonel Bruce Crow, Psychology Consultant, U.S. Army Surgeon General

Ira R. Katz, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Chief PCS Officer for Mental Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Jonathan Town, Veteran

Joshua Kors, Journalist

Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, Veterans for Common Sense

Bobby Muller, President, Veterans for America

M. Tracie Shea, Ph.D., Professor, Brown University

Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina

Sally Satel, M.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

WHERE: 334 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C.

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Larry Scott

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