Overmedication: Problems and Solutions

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Agenda

Panel I

Robert Petzel, MD, Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

        Accompanied by:

             Tracy Gaudet, MD, Director, Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation

             Peter Marshall, MD, Director of Primary Care Pain Management, Minneapolis VA Medical Center

BG Norvell V. Coots, USA, Deputy Commanding General (Support), U.S. Army Medical Command and Assistant Surgeon General for Force Projection, Office of the Surgeon General

        Accompanied by:

            COL Kevin Galloway, USA, Program Director, Army Pain Management Program, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Division, Office of the Surgeon General

Josephine Briggs, MD, Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health

  

Panel II

Janet Kahn, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont and Senior Policy Advisor, Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine

Mark Edlund, MD, PhD, Senior Research Public Health Analyst, Behavioral Health Epidemiology Program, RTI International



Member Statements

Testimony

  • Honorable Robert Petzel, MD

    Department of Veterans Affairs
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  • Dr. Mark Edlund

    RTI International
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  • Dr. Josephine Briggs

    National Institutes of Health
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  • BG Norvell V. Coots, USA

    Office of the Surgeon General
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  • Dr. Janet Kahn

    Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine
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