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IOM meeting - Washington DC

Monday, August 14, 2000

9:00  Welcome and Introduction

9:15  Treating U.S. Gulf War Veterans-Presentation and Discussion

         Stephen Hunt, MD Ralph Richardson, PhD

10:00 British Gulf War Veterans Health-Presentation and Discussion

         Col. John Graham, British Liason Officer ( Gulf Health )

10:30 BREAK

10:45 Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Presentation and Discussion

          Howard Spiro, MD

11:30 Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms

          Charles Engel, MD ( Walter Reed Army Hospital )

12:15 Concluding Discussion

12:45 LUNCH BREAK

1:30 Following spoke

David Berg, MS

Director, Hemex Laboratories, Inc.

Janyce E. Brown, BFA

Editor/Publisher, the Surface Report

Edward J. Bryan, Veteran

Health care Liason, VA-Boston University Advisory Group

Kathleen Hannan, MD. Radiologist

Oscela Regional Hospital, Orlando, Florida

Edward Hyman, MD. FACP

Gulf war Medical Researcher
James Johnson, Veteran

US Army

Harold Nelson SSGT

Disabled Veteran

Denise Nichols, RN

NVGWVC

Michael Oldaker, Veteran

Disabled Marine

Lawrence Plumlee, M.D.

CoPresident, National Coalition for the Chemically Injured

Kirt Love, Veteran

Director DSBR, Dallas Texas

Ruth McGill, MD

National Gulf War Advocate

Frank Sauer, Veteran

Gulf War Advocate

Steve Smithson,

Assistant Director, National VA and

Rehab Commission - American Legion

Venusval Hammack, Veteran

                    PGEV representataive

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Summary:

The sad thing was the Gulf War veteran community actually

showed up in mass, and was never given a fair chance.

Reuters stayed long enough to hear Dr. Charles Engle of

Walter Reed Army Hospital say Somatization, and they

bolted for the door to write their article. The morning was

eaten up by some pretty bad testimony.

That evening the veteran groups, advocates, and injured

parties offered a pretty good rebuttal. Still, the IOM just

commented on how powerless they were - leaving us to

endure the nasty article from Reuters.

Safe to say, the Somatization term will not go unchallenged.

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                Pretty good turn out, not a empty room.

      

              Col John Graham comments on UK issues

        

               Dr. Charles Engle - potential pin cushion

           for Voodoo dolls everywhere

       
 
               Jan Brown giggling at Engle's comments
        
         
   
                Desert Storm Mom looks on intently.
         
         
      
           Dr. Ruth McGill takes her stab at Somatform

         

           Venus Hammack very unhappy with Engle

         

        Kirt Love looks on with disgust at Engles speech