Agenda: Meeting 1- Treatment of PTSD
Agenda
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C St. N.W
Washington, DC
Lecture Room
10:00 – 10:10 am
Welcome and Introductions
Alfred O. Berg
Committee Chair
10:10 – 10:20 am
Charge to the Committee
Joe Francis
Acting Deputy Chief Research and Development Officer
Department of Veterans Affairs
10:20 – 10:30 am
Committee Questions
10:30 – 11:00 am
Treatment of PTSD in VA facilities and programs
Readjustment Counseling Services
Alfonso Batres
Chief Officer
Readjustment Counseling Service
Department of Veterans Affairs
Mental Health Services
Antonette Zeiss
Deputy Chief
Mental Health Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Batres & Zeiss Combined PowerPoint Presentation
11:00 – 11:20 am
Committee Questions
11:20 - 11:25 am
Comment from the Veterans’ Disability Benefits Commission
Commissioner Rick Surratt
Veterans’ Disability Benefits Commission
11:25 - 11:30 am
Committee Questions
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
State of the Research – Pharmacotherapy
Jonathan Davidson
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center
12:00 am – 12:15 pm
Committee Questions
12:15 – 12:45 pm
State of the Research – Psychotherapy
Rachel Yehuda
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Traumatic Stress Studies Division
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center
12:45 – 1:00 pm
Committee Questions
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 – 2:20 pm
Clinical Perspectives
Douglas Zatzick
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
University of Washington School of Medicine
2:20 – 2:35 pm
Committee Questions
2:35 – 2:55 pm
Treating PTSD in Veterans: Challenges and Opportunities
Robert Ursano
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
2:55 – 3:10 pm
Committee Questions
3:10 – 3:30 pm
Public Comment Period
3:30 pm
Adjourn
Back to Meeting