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Project Title: Review of the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides - Ninth Biennial Update

PIN: IOM-BSP-11-05         

Major Unit:
Institute of Medicine

Sub Unit:
Board on the Health of Select Populations

RSO:
Paxton, Mary

Subject/Focus Area:
Health and Medicine


Veterans and Agent Orange - Update 2012
June 28, 2012 - June 29, 2012
National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C St. NW
Washington D.C.


If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Tia Carter
Email: tcarter@nas.edu
Phone: 202-334-3816
Fax: 202-334-1385


Agenda:

Open Session

NAS Building, Room 125

1:00 p.m. Welcome; goals and conduct of the public meeting; introduction of committee members
Mary Walker, Committee Chair

1:05 p.m. Charge to the Committee
Wendi Dick, MD, US Department of Veterans Affairs

1:35 p.m. Agricultural Health Study
Michael Alavanja, DrPH, Senior Investigator, NCI

1:55 p.m. Similar health conditions of era veterans with Agent Orange exposure on Guam
LeRoy Foster
Frank Stanton

2:15 p.m. AO exposure at Fort McClellan, Alabama
Helena Van Clief, Army Staff Sergeant

2:25 p.m. Placido Salazar

2:35 p.m Vietnam–era veterans exposed outside of Vietnam
Carlo Albanese

2:45 p.m. Son of Vietnam veteran with spina bifida
Douglas E. King

2:55 p.m. Herbicide use in Thailand
Ken Witkin, President, Airborne Battlefield Command Control Center Association

3:05 p.m. William G. Jefferson Barr, Jr. Founder and Senior Legislative Advocate
The Veterans Association of Sailors of the Vietnam War, Inc.

3:15 p.m. D. Karen Reyes, Co-Founder
Agent Orange Legacy, Children of American Vietnam Veterans

3:25 p.m. Rick Weidman, Executive Director for Policy and Government Affairs, Vietnam Veterans of America

Other veteran speaker(s), if time requested

4:00 p.m. Close Public Session