Understanding and Preventing Veteran Suicide
Subcommittee on Health | Room 334 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC
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Dec 2, 2011 10:00am
Opening Statements
Witnesses
Panel 1
- Commander René A. Campos, USN (Ret.), Deputy Director, Government Relations, Military Officers Association of America
- Tom Tarantino, Senior Legislative Associate, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- Thomas J. Berger, Ph.D., Executive Director, Veterans Health Council, Vietnam Veterans of America
- Joy J. Ilem, Deputy National Legislative Director, Disabled American Veterans
Panel 2
- Margaret C. Harrell, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director, Joining Forces Initiative Center for a New American Security
- Katherine E. Watkins, M.D., Senior Natural Scientist, The RAND Corporation
- Jan E. Kemp, RN, Ph.D., National Mental Health Director for Suicide Prevention, Veterans Heath Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Accompanied by:
- Antoinette Zeiss, Ph.D. Chief Consultant for Mental Health Veterans Health Administration U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Submissions for the Record
- Colonel Carl Castro, Ph.D., Director, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and Chair, Joint Program Committee for Operational Medicine, Department of the Army, U.S. Department of Defense
- Paula Clayton, M.D., Medical Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Lieutenant Colonel Michael Pooler, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, Maine Army National Guard
- Richard McCormick, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Center for Health Care Policy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- John E. Toczydlowski, Esq., Philadelphia, PA
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