Symposium Agenda
Having some kind of advocate available for families
to be able to go and fi lter this and navigate through the Kickoff Address
system is extremely important. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Senate
Veterans’ Affairs Committee and Senate Armed
Beck: A couple [of ] things. One, Colonel Bunce has just Services Committee
kind of demonstrated exactly how diffi cult it is for a fam-
ily member. You take the 19-year-old wife of an E3 or an How Do We Identify and Treat Invisible
E2 and try to have them navigate the same systems. Wounds? Traumatic Brain Injury
But the idea that we’re trying to make these people Participants: Susan Connors (moderator); Meredith
understand, and then [we] don’t understand why they Beck; Cmdr. Richard Jadick, USN; Dr. Thomas Gualtieri;
don’t get it, is a very diffi cult thing to explain to a ser- and Col. Peter Bunce, USAF-Ret.
vicemember, a [guardmember] in North Carolina, who
[might] or [might] not have a high school education, who The Bionic Man: How Can Amputees Continue
has a brain injury, [and who is] trying to fi gure this out. to Serve on Active Duty?
Participants: Capt. Arthur Smith, USNR-Ret. (modera-
Jadick: My only addition to this is that these [are young tor), professor of surgery at the Medical College of
guys]. They have young families, and a lot of them don’t Georgia and attending urologist at the Augusta VA
have a great family support structure. So when they get Medical Center, Ga.; Dr. Don Gajewski, orthopedic sur-
frustrated with anything, when they get frustrated with geon, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center;
DoD, when they get frustrated with the VA, and then Maj. Dave Rozelle, USA, deputy director of the Mili-
they’re getting medically boarded out of DoD and not tary Advanced Training Center, Walter Reed National
transitioning into the VA, that’s when they get lost, sit Military Medical Center; Fred Downs, chief of pros-
at home, and don’t do anything except collect whatever thetics, Veterans Health Administration; and Capt.
minimal benefi t they get. D.J. Skelton, USA, platoon leader, 25th Infantry Divi-
They get no care, and they get lost. And nobody is sion, injured in the second battle of Fallujah, Iraq
out there trying to pick these guys up, trying to bring
them back into the system. That’s where the advocacy Remarks by
gets lost, and that’s the shame of it. Dr. S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs
Connors: That’s, I think, a great place for us to invite
questions from our audience. Luncheon Keynote
Rep. Steven Buyer (R-Ind.), House Veterans’
Susan Hanrahan: I’m the dean of the College of Nursing Affairs Committee
and Health Professions at Arkansas State University. I’ve
been in a university setting for a long time, and basically, Can Leadership Keep the “D” Out of Post-Trau-
I’ve seen military personnel come to the university for matic Stress Disorder?
higher education purposes. Participants: Rear Adm. Joyce Johnson, USPHS-
The federal government uses us as research centers. Ret. (moderator), vice president of Health Sciences,
But I’m wondering, I know your panel particularly is Battelle, and former surgeon general of the Coast
talking about TBI, but if you’ll think beyond and think of Guard; Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder
[PTSD], other physical injuries, amputees, etcetera, I’m of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America; Col.
wondering your thoughts about the opportunity for the Keith Pankhurst, USMC, Fourth MAW, Combat/Op-
university to serve in a different capacity. erational Stress Control program coordinator; Capt.
Morgan T. Sammons, USN, Ph.D., APPB director of
Bunce: One of the reasons I was late this morning is I clinical support, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and
dropped my son off ... [at] exactly what you’re talking Surgery and Special Assistant for Matters of Mental
about. [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer- Health/PTSD; and Charles Gittins, Esq.
sity] sponsored a grant and the state of Virginia provid-
ed a grant to Virginia Tech [to support] a project called Closing Keynote
the Hope Project. It’s about three weeks old right now. R. James Nicholson, former secretary of
I had grandiose ideas [that] this could do exactly Veterans Affairs
what you were talking about. It started off they were
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