FIRST PUBLIC MEETING
Friday, February 4, 2005
Keck Building, Room 101
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC
Welcome, opening remarks and introduction
David Tollerud, M.D., M.P.H.
Committee Chair
Charge to the committee
Mark A. Brown, Ph.D.
Director, Environmental Agents Service
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Overview of the Air Force Health Study
Joel Michalek, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Air Force Research Laboratory
SECOND PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Board Room, National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Welcome, opening remarks, and introduction
David Tollerud, M.D., M.P.H.
Committee Chair
Mark A. Brown, Ph.D.
Director of Environmental Agents Service
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Disposition of the Air Force Health Study
Michael Stoto, Ph.D.
Chair, Ranch Hand Advisory Committee
Amalgam study design
Albert Kingman, Ph.D.
Chief Biostatistician and Head of the Biostatistics Core
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH
Uses and usefulness of data and specimen resources from the Air Force Health Study
Teri Manolio, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Epidemiology and Biometry Program
Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
Richard M. Suzman, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Behavioral and Social Research Program
National Institute on Aging, NIH
Marie Haring Sweeney, Ph.D.
Health Attaché, United States Embassy
Hanoi, Vietnam
Mary Ellen McCarthy
Minority Staff Director, House Veterans Affairs Committee
Subcommittee on Benefits
Testimony on the behalf of The American Legion
Shannon Middleton
The American Legion
Testimony on the behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America
Rick Weidman
Vietnam Veterans of America
THIRD PUBLIC MEETING
Monday, June 20, 2005
Keck Building, Room 204
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
Welcome, opening remarks and introduction
David Tollerud, M.D., M.P.H.
Committee Chair
The MAVERIC database of veterans’ health information
Pantel S. Vokonas, M.D.
Principal Investigator, The VA Normative Aging Study
Management and analysis of the MFUA veterans’ health databases
William Page, Ph.D.
Medical Follow-Up Agency, Institute of Medicine
The National Academies
NCHS’s experiences with the administration and dissemination of epidemiologic data and biologic samples
Geraldine McQuillan, Ph.D. and Kathryn Porter, M.D., M.S.
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control
Lessons learned from the “Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust” study
Andrea Pernack Anason, M.P.H. and John Bailar, M.D., Ph.D.
Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program’s Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program