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Standing Committee of Medical and Vocational Experts for the Social Security Administration's Disability Programs

The standing committee of medical, vocational, and other experts will meet regularly to discuss ongoing and emerging disability policy issues raised by the Social Security Administration. The committee shall review relevant evidence, research, and clinical practices, and shall collect and analyze data, related to the topic of disability.

Related topics might include, but are not limited to: physical and mental impairments in adults and children, functional limitations resulting from impairments, prescribed treatments and therapies, vocational information, assistive technology, and developmental milestones for children, as deemed relevant to the sequential evaluation process.

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Description

The Health and Medicine division (HMD) will establish a standing committee of about 15 medical experts to assist the Social Security Administration (SSA) to improve its disability programs. The standing committee will maintain surveillance of the field including the literature, clinical practices, and published studies related to disability. In this regard the committee will collect and analyze relevant data and information and serve as a focal point for discussions of disability issues and the SSA’s sequential evaluation process. The context for the discussions would be potential studies or other activities such as workshops on topics that SSA might want HMD to undertake and the planning and program development efforts on prospective projects to be initiated under the auspices of the standing committee. All activities of the standing committee will be conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines.

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Chair Emeritus

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Sponsors

Social Security Administration

Staff

Tracy Lustig

Lead

Joe Goodman

Torrie Brown

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