Military Service Organizations and Veterans Service Organizations
November 28,2007
The November 2007 VSO/MSO Roundtable took place on 28 November, at the DoD Force Health Protection & Readiness (FHP&R) offices in Falls Church, VA. The Roundtable was hosted by Dr. Kelley Brix M.D., M.P.H., of the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense (FHP&R) (standing in for Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, Deputy Director, FHP&R Programs).
Featured speakers were:
- Col. (P) Loree Sutton, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Col. (P) Sutton briefed the status of the DoD Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Col. (P) Sutton's presentation:
- Dee Morris, Quality Assurance and Deployment Exposures, FHP&R
- Ms. Morris briefed the status of the Shipboard Hazard Defense (SHAD) health study.
- Ms. Morris' presentation:
- Dr. Kelley Brix, Medical Epidemiologist, FHP&R
- Dr. Brix briefed the findings of the congressionally mandated National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine report "Gulf War and Health: Volume 6, Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress" (the free executive summary of this report can be found )
- Dr. Brix's presentation:
