Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010 (2012)
Chapter: Appendix A: Agendas of Public Meetings Held by the Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Eighth Biennial Update)
FIRST PUBLIC MEETING
Monday, September 27, 2010
Keck Center, Room 105
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Presentations
• Welcome; Goals and Conduct of the Public Meeting; Introduction of Committee
Mary Walker, Committee Chair
• Charge to the Committee
Victoria Cassano, MD, US Department of Veterans Affairs
• IOM Veterans and Agent Orange Reports: A Brief History
David Butler, PhD, Institute of Medicine
• Clinical Observations Concerning Autoimmune Conditions in Veterans
Margaret Kruckemeyer, RN/ARNP-C, Rehab Nurse Practitioner, Dayton VA Medical Center
• Autoimmune Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) following Extensive Exposure to Agent Orange during Service on Guam
MSgt LeRoy G. Foster, Ret USAF
• Activities Involving the Vietnamese Population
Vaughan C. Turekian, PhD, Chief International Officer, AAAS and representative to US–Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
• Speaking on Behalf of Vietnam Veterans
Rick Weidman, Executive Director for Policy and Government Affairs, Vietnam Veterans of America
SECOND PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Hotel Allegro
171 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601
Presentations
• Welcome; Goals and Conduct of the Public Meeting; Introduction of Committee
Mary Walker, Committee Chair
• Parkinson Disease
Steve Fiscus Mike Trok
• Oxidative Stress: Parkinson Disease and Birth Defects
Alan Oates, US Military Veterans with Parkinson Disease
• Birth Defects in Offspring of a Father Who Served in the Republic of Vietnam (besides Spina Bifida)
John Michel, Military Order of the Purple Heart
• Problems Faced by Grandchildren of Vietnam Veterans
Ray Parrish
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Robert Macfarlane
• My Husband’s Story
Presented by Bob Macfarlane on behalf of Lillian Mooradian
• MDS and Agent Orange
Presented by Bob Macfarlane on behalf of Douglas Nelson
• My MDS and VA
Larry Sauger
• Classification of MDS as a Cancer in Vietnam-Era Veterans
John Herbert
• Thyroid Risk and Agent Orange
Roger McGill, Vietnam Veteran
• Personal Health
Lupe Alviar, Jr., Vietnam Veterans of America
• Experience with Inter-Related Health Issues Due to Dioxin Exposure
Kurtis Borre
• What Are the Effects of Agent Orange on a Three-Tour Veteran?
Ronald Mattox
THIRD PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Hotel Andaluz
125 2nd Street, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Presentations
• Welcome; Goals and Conduct of the Public Meeting; Introduction of Committee
Mary Walker, Committee Chair
• Research Activities Concerning Herbicide Contamination in Vietnam and Health of the Vietnamese Population
Arnie Schecter
• Glioblastomas and Herbicide Exposure
Eileen Whitacre Perkins
FOURTH PUBLIC MEETING
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wyndham Phoenix
50 East Adams Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Presentations
• Welcome; Goals and Conduct of the Public Meeting; Introduction of Committee
Mary Walker, Committee Chair
• My Husband’s Alzheimer’s
Jan Hughes
• Questions and Discussion with Paul Enright
Paul Enright, University of Arizona–Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
