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Dr. Karen Guice, acting assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, addressed attendees on the second day of the 2016 Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Summit Sept. 14, 2016. The three-day conference held at the Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, has attracted about 1,400 participants, both in the room and virtually around the world, to look at issues regarding psychological health and TBI for active-duty service members, veterans and their families.
Guice told the health care providers and policy makers that just because the military is emerging from active engagement in two wars, it doesn’t mean the need has diminished to work on the effects of TBI and caring for service members’ psychological health.
“The vigilance in your particular two areas (TBI and psychological health) hasn’t stopped. It can’t stop,” she said. “Everything you do has meaning, value and is very, very important to improving the health and well-being of our service members so they can be deployed and take care of the mission.”
Guice also asked attendees to follow her on Twitter to see what is going on at the highest levels of the Military Health System, and to share with her advances being made in the fields of medicine.