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Gulf War and Health Vol.1-9: Authors, Editors, Staff, Consultants, Reviewers

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Gulf War and Health Vol.1-9:
Authors, Editors, (Study) Staff, Consultants, Reviewers--when named, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) president, Institute of Medicine (IOM) president

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/gulfwar/reports/instituteofmedicine.asp


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I.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 1. Depleted Uranium, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Sarin, and Vaccines (2000)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9953&page=R1

"Carolyn E. Fulco, Catharyn T. Liverman, Harold C. Sox, Editors

Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures During the Gulf War

Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE; Shaping the Future for Health" (p.R3)

"Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON HEALTH EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURES DURING THE GULF WAR (p.R5):

HAROLD C. SOX (Chair), Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

MICHAEL ASCHNER, Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

PATRICIA A. BUFFLER, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health

LUCIO GUIDO COSTA, Professor, Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington

FIRDAUS S. DHABHAR, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biology, Ohio State University Health Sciences Center

ANTHONY L. KOMAROFF, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Health Publications

JANICE L. KRUPNICK, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School

HERBERT LOWNDES, Professor, College of Pharmacy, Rutgers University

ERNEST L. MAZZAFERRI, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University

DEMETRIOS J. MOSCHANDREAS, Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

CHARLES E. PHELPS, Provost, University of Rochester

SAMUEL J. POTOLICCHIO, Professor, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center

JEAN F. REGAL, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota at Duluth

MARC SCHENKER, Professor, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California at Davis School of Medicine

PETER H. SCHUR, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

FRANÇOISE SEILLIER-MOISEIWITSCH, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

WALTER C. WILLETT, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

SCOTT L. ZEGER, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health


STAFF (p.R6):

CAROLYN E. FULCO, Study Director

CATHARYN T. LIVERMAN, Study Director

SANDRA AU, Research Assistant

KYSA CHRISTIE, Senior Project Assistant

KATHLEEN STRATTON, Acting Director (through November 1999), Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director (from December 1999), Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

"People who read the entire report will learn something about the difficulty of forming scientific conclusions based on inadequate information." (p.R9)


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II.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 2. Insecticides and Solvents (2003)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10628&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Literature Review of Pesticides and Solvents

Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Shaping the Future for Health" (p.R3)

"Dr. Bruce M.Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: LITERATURE REVIEW OF PESTICIDES AND SOLVENTS (p.R5):

JACK M.COLWILL (Chair), Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri

SAMUEL J.POTOLICCHIO (Vice-Chair), Professor, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

ANN ASCHENGRAU, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

LORNE A.BECKER, Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

DEBORAH A.CORY-SLECHTA, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

WILLIAM E.DANIELL, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

MARION F.EHRICH, Professor, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

MANNING FEINLEIB, Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

ROBERT G.FELDMAN, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

MARK S.GOLDBERG, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

LYNN R.GOLDMAN, Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

ROSE H.GOLDMAN, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts

RONALD GOLDNER, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

DAVID F.GOLDSMITH, Associate Research Professor, George Washington University, Washington, DC

CYNTHIA HARRIS, Director and Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida

RUSS B.HAUSER, Assistant Professor, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

JANICE L.KIRSCH, Study Oncologist and Researcher, Northern California Childhood Leukemia Project, University of California, Berkeley, California

ANTHONY L.KOMAROFF, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

MICHAEL L.LEFEVRE, Director of Clinical Services, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri

RICHARD MAYEUX, Gertrude H.Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY

STEPHEN A.MCCURDY, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California

SANDRA MOHR, Formerly with the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Denver, Colorado

TOSHIO NARAHASHI, John Evans Professor of Pharmacology, Alfred Newton Richards Professor of Pharmacology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

LEENA A.NYLANDER-FRENCH, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

MICHAEL O’MALLEY, Staff Physician, Employee Health Service, University of California, Davis, California

CHARLES POOLE, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

CARRIE A.REDLICH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

JOSEPH V.RODRICKS, Principal, Environ, Inc., Arlington, Virginia

KENNETH D.ROSENMAN, Professor, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

MARY ANN SMITH, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas

ANNE M.SWEENEY, Associate Professor, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University, Bryan, Texas

PATRICK R.M.THOMAS, Radiation Oncologist, Bardmoor Cancer Center, Largo, Florida

WILLIAM M.VALENTINE, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

JOHN E.VENA, Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Director, Environmental and Society Institute, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

LAURA STEWART WELCH, Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

CHRISTINA WOLFSON, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

TONGZHANG ZHENG, Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut


STAFF (p.R7):

CAROLYN E.FULCO, Senior Program Officer

CATHARYN T.LIVERMAN, Senior Program Officer

CARRIE I.SZLYK, Program Officer

MICHELLE CATLIN, Senior Program Officer

SANDRA AU, Research Associate (until May 2002)

SUSAN FOURT, Research Associate (until May 2002)

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Research Associate

JUDITH A.URBANCZYK, Research Associate

HOPE R.HARE, Research Assistant

A.WEZI MUNTHALI, Research Assistant

KAREN AUTREY, Senior Project Assistant (until February 2002)

JUDITH ESTEP, Senior Project Assistant (until December 2002)

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention


CONSULTANTS (p.R7):

APPLIED EPIDEMIOLOGY, INC., Amherst, Massachusetts

MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer, Silver Spring, Maryland

DIANE MUNDT, Applied Epidemiology, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts

MARY PAXTON, Independent Consultant, Falls Church, Virginia

ELIZABETH TONKIN, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

MARIE-FRANCE VALOIS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

LISA ZIMMERMAN, Vanderbilt University Medical Center


EDITORS (p.R7):

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, NRC Senior Editor

KATE KELLY, Independent Editor


REVIEWERS (p.R8):

JAMES V.BRUCKNER, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

LUCIO G.COSTA, Professor of Environmental Health, Toxicology and Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

BERNARD D.GOLDSTEIN, Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

PHILIPPE GRANDJEAN, Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA

MATTHEW C.KEIFER, Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

ANDREW F.OLSHAN, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

DAVID OZONOFF, Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA

THOMAS G.ROBINS, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

PALMER W.TAYLOR, Sandra and Monroe Trout Chair and Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

DAVID J.TOLLERUD, Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA

CURTIS TRAVIS, Quest Technologies, Knoxville, TN

"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by DONALD R.MATTISON, Senior Adviser, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Center for Research for Mothers and Children, who was appointed by the Institute of Medicine and HAROLD C. SOX, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, who was appointed by the Report Review Committee. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author committee and the institution." (p.R8)

"Because of the large volume of literature on those compounds, IOM appointed a 37-member committee, one of the largest committees in its history." (p.R9)

"The committee placed its conclusions in categories of strength of evidence. Similar categories were used in Volume 1 of Gulf War and Health and in numerous other IOM studies." (p.R9)


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III.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 3. Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants (2005)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11180&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Literature Review of Selected Environmental Particulates, Pollutants, and Synthetic Chemical Compounds

Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Adviser to the Nation to Improve Health" (p.R3)

"Dr. Bruce M.Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


"COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: LITERATURE REVIEW OF SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICIPATES, POLLUTANTS, AND SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS" (p.R5):

LYNN R.GOLDMAN (Chair), Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

MELVYN BRANCH, Joseph Negler Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

MICHAEL BRAUER, Professor, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

DEBORAH A.CORY-SLECHTA, Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ (Resigned January 22, 2004)

MARK EISNER, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

ERIC GARSHICK, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

RUSS B.HAUSER, Associate Professor of Occupational Health, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

JOEL KAUFMAN, Associate Professor of Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Departments of Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

RICHARD MAYEUX, Professor and Director, Sergievsky Center, Co-Director, Taub Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY

CHARLES POOLE, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC

BEATE RITZ, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

JOSEPH RODRICKS, Principal, ENVIRON Health Sciences Institute, ENVIRON International Corporation, Arlington, VA

RICHARD SCHLESINGER, Chair and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY

JAMES TAYLOR, Head, Section of Industrial Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

MARK UTELL, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY

WILLIAM VALENTINE, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

JUDITH ZELIKOFF, Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY


STAFF (p.R6):

CAROLYN FULCO, Senior Program Officer

ABIGAIL MITCHELL, Senior Program Officer

MARY PAXTON, Senior Program Officer

MICHELLE CATLIN, Senior Program Officer

CARRIE SZLYK, Program Officer (until December 2003)

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Senior Program Associate

JUDITH URBANCZYK, Senior Program Associate

HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant

DEEPALI PATEL, Research Associate

PETER JAMES, Research Assitant

DAMIKA WEBB, Senior Program Assistant

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention


CONSULTANTS (p.R6):

MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer, Silver Spring, MD

MARK GOLDBERG, McGill University, Montreal, QC

KATHERINE HOGGATT, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

JOAN DENCKLA, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

KIT SHAN LEE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC


EDITOR (p.R6):

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, NRC Senior Editor


REVIEWERS (p.R7):

JOHN R.BALMES, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA

ANNECLAIRE J.DE ROOS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

ARTHUR L.FRANK, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

PATRICK KINNEY, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY

HOWARD KIPEN, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

JANE Q.KOENIG, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

FRANCINE LADEN, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

THOMAS MACK, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

JONATHAN PATZ, Global Environmental Health Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

SAMUEL POTOLICCHIO, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

PEGGY REYNOLDS, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA

JONATHAN M.SAMET, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by DAVID J.TOLLERUD, School of Public Health University of Louisville, KY, and M.DONALD WHORTON, WorkCare, Inc., Alameda, CA, who were appointed by the Report Review Committee. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution." (p.R7)

"Along the lines of earlier Gulf War reports, the committee has framed its conclusions in categories of strength of association." (p.R9)


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IV.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 4: Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War (2006)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11729&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: A Review of the Medical Literature Relative to the Gulf War Veterans’ Health

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Advising the Nation. Improving Health." (p.R3)

"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: A REVIEW OF THE MEDICAL LITERATURE RELATIVE TO GULF WAR VETERANS’ HEALTH (p.R5):

LYNN R. GOLDMAN, MD, MPH, (chair) Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

MARCIA ANGELL, MD, Senior Lecturer on Social Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

W. KENT ANGER, PhD, Associate Director for Occupational Research, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

MICHAEL BRAUER, ScD, Professor, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

DEDRA S. BUCHWALD, MD, Director, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

FRANCESCA DOMINICI, PhD, Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

ARTHUR L. FRANK, MD, PhD, Professor, Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA

FRANCINE LADEN, ScD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

DAVID MATCHAR, MD, Director, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

SAMUEL J. POTOLICCHIO, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

THOMAS G. ROBINS, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

GEORGE W. RUTHERFORD, MD, Professor, Vice-Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

CAROL A. TAMMINGA, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX


STAFF (p.R6):

CAROLYN FULCO, Senior Program Officer

ABIGAIL MITCHELL, Senior Program Officer

DEEPALI PATEL, Senior Program Associate

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Senior Program Associate

JUDITH URBANCZYK, Senior Program Associate

HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant

PETER JAMES, Research Associate

DAMIKA WEBB, Research Assistant

RENEE WLODARCZYK, Intern

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice


CONSULTANTS (p.R6):

MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer, Silver Spring, MD

ANNE STANGL, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA


REVIEWERS (p.R7):

ARTHUR K. ASBURY, MD, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

SHARON COOPER, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A & M University School of Rural Public Health, College Station, TX

PETER J. DYCK, MD, Director, Peripheral Nerve Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

DAVID GAYLOR, PhD, MS, President, Gaylor & Associates, LLC, Eureka Springs, AR

JACK M. GORMAN, MD, President and Psychiatrist in Chief, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA

PHILIP GREENLAND, MD, Executive Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

HOWARD KIPEN, MD, MPH, Director, Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine Division, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

JOSEPH LADOU, MD, Editor, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Professor, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

ELLEN REMENCHIK, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, The University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, TX

KATHERINE S. SQUIBB, PhD, Associate Professor & Head, Division of Environmental Epidemiology & Toxicology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD


"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by David J. Tollerud, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Louisville and by Harold Sox, editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians of Internal Medicine. Appointed by the National Research Council, Dr. Sox was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution." (p.R7)

"Therefore, despite the serious limitations of the available studies as a group, they do point the way to actions that might benefit Gulf War and other combat veterans." (p.R10)


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V.

Guf War and Health: Volume 5. Infectious Diseases (2007)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11765&page=R1

"Abigail E. Mitchell, Laura B. Sivitz, Robert E. Black, Editors

Committee on Gulf War and Health: Infectious Diseases

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Advising the Nation. Improving Health." (p.R3)

"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


"COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: INFECTIOUS DISEASES" (p.R5)

ROBERT E. BLACK, MD, MPH, Edgar Berman Professor and Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

MARTIN J. BLASER, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York

RICHARD D. CLOVER, MD, Dean and Professor, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, KY

MYRON S. COHEN, MD, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Public Health, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill

JERROLD J. ELLNER, MD, Professor and Chair of the New Jersey Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark

JEANNE MARRAZZO, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

MEGAN MURRAY, MD, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA

EDWARD C. OLDFIELD III, MD, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk

RANDALL R. REVES, MD, MSc, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

EDWARD T. RYAN, MD, Director, Tropical and Geographic Medicine Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

STEN H. VERMUND, MD, PhD, Amos Christie Chair and Director, Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health, and Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

DAWN M. WESSON, PhD, Associate Professor, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA


STAFF (p.R6):

ABIGAIL E. MITCHELL, PhD, Senior Program Officer

LAURA B. SIVITZ, MSJ, Senior Program Associate

DEEPALI M. PATEL, Senior Program Associate

MICHAEL J. SCHNEIDER, MPH, Senior Program Associate

PETER JAMES, Research Associate

DAMIKA WEBB, Research Assistant

DAVID J. TOLLERUD, Program Assistant

RENEE WLODARCZYK, Program Assistant

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, ScD, Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice


REVIEWERS (p. R7):

Lawrence R. Ash, Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health

Michele Barry, Tropical Medicine and International Health Programs, Yale University School of Medicine

Herbert DuPont, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital

Robert Edelman, Travelers’ Health Clinic, University of Maryland

David Hill, National Travel Health Network and Centre, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

Richard T. Johnson, Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Arthur Reingold, Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

Philip K. Russell, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Mark Wallace, Independent Infectious Diseases Consultant and United States Navy, Retired
"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by George Rutherford, Institute of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, and Elaine L. Larson, School of Nursing, Columbia University. Appointed by the National Research Council, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution." (p. R7)

"In addition, long-term adverse health outcomes of some pathogens are increasingly recognized." (p.R9)


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VI.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 6. Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress (2008)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11922&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Advising the Nation. Improving Health." (p.R3)

"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: PHYSIOLOGIC, PSYCHOLOGIC, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF DEPLOYMENT-RELATED STRESS (p.R5):

RICHARD MAYEUX, MD, MSc (Chair), Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epidemiology, Sergievsky Center, and Codirector, Taub Institute, Columbia University

KATHRYN KARUSAITIS BASHAM, PhD, MSW, Professor, Smith College School for Social Work

EVELYN J. BROMET, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook

GREGORY L. BURKE, MD, MSc, Professor and Chair, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

DENNIS S. CHARNEY, MD, Dean, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

MICHAEL DAVIS, PhD, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Emory University

DOUGLAS A. DROSSMAN, MD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Codirector,
UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DWIGHT L. EVANS, MD, Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chair, Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

VINCENT J. FELITTI, MD, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, CA

JANICE L. KRUPNICK, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine

WILLIAM B. MALARKEY, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics and Director, Clinical Research Center, Ohio State University

BRUCE S. MCEWEN, PhD, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University

THOMAS G. PICKERING, MD, DPhil, Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

JERROLD F. ROSENBAUM, MD, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Stanley Cobb Professor of Pyschiatry, Harvard Medical School

B. TIMOTHY WALSH, MD, William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and Chief, Division of Clinical Therapeutics, New York State Psychiatric Institute


CONSULTANTS (p.R6):

KERRY L. KNOX, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Department of Veterans Affairs, Director, VISN 2 Center for Excellence at Canandaigua

CAROL NORTH, MD, VA North Texas Health Care System and Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer, Silver Spring, MD


STAFF (p.R6):

CAROLYN FULCO, Scholar

ROBERTA WEDGE, Senior Program Officer

SANDRA GOODBODY, Senior Program Officer

PETER JAMES, Senior Program Associate

DEEPALI M. PATEL, Senior Program Associate

MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Senior Program Associate

DAVID J. TOLLERUD, Program Assistant

DANIELLE K. STOLL, Program Assistant

DAMIKA WEBB, Research Assistant

RENEE WLODARCZYK, Senior Program Assistant

NORMAN GROSSBLAT, Senior editor

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant


REVIEWERS (p.R7):

Elissa S. Epel, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Manning Feinleib, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University

Edgar Garcia-Rill, Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Danny O. Jacobs, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center

Karen A. Matthews, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Eric J. Nestler, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

William E. Schlenger, Abt Associates, Inc.

Robert D. Sparks, TASER Foundation

Ezra S. Susser, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University

Daniel S. Weiss, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Nancy Fugate Woods, School of Nursing, University of Washington

"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Dr. Charles E. Phelps, University of Rochester, and Dr. Harold C. Sox, American College of Physicians/Annals of Internal Medicine. Appointed by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the author committee and the institution." (p.R7)


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VII.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (2008)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12436&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Brain Injury in Veterans and Long-Term Health Outcomes

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Advising the Nation. Improving Health." (p.R3)

"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: BRAIN INJURY IN VETERANS AND LONG-TERM HEALTH OUTCOMES (p.R5):

GEORGE W. RUTHERFORD, MD (Chair) Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Director, Prevention and Public Health Group, Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

JEFFREY J. BAZARIAN, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

IBOLJA CERNAK, PhD, MD, Medical Director, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

JOHN D. CORRIGAN, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ohio State University

SUREYYA S. DIKMEN, PhD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington

M. SEAN GRADY, MD, Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

DALE C. HESDORFFER, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University

JESS F. KRAUS, PhD, MPH, Director, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health

HARVEY S. LEVIN, PhD, Professor, Director of Research, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine

LINDA NOBLE, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California, San Francisco

SAMUEL J. POTOLICCHIO, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center

SCOTT L. RAUCH, MD, Chair, Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health; President and Psychiatrist in Chief, McLean Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry,Harvard Medical School

WILLIAM STIERS, PhD, ABPP, Assistant Professor,Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University

CAROL A. TAMMINGA, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

NANCY TEMKIN, PhD, Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Biostatistics, University of Washington

MARC G. WEISSKOPF, PhD, ScD, Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor, Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health


STAFF (p.R6):

CAROLYN FULCO, Senior Program Officer

ABIGAIL MITCHELL, Senior Program Officer

ROBERTA WEDGE, Senior Program Officer

NAOKO ISHIBE, Program Officer

JENNIFER SAUNDERS, Senior Program Associate

DEEPALI PATEL, Senior Program Associate (until October 2007)

RENEE WLODARCZYK, Senior Program Associate

JOE GOODMAN, Senior Program Assistant

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor

CHRISTIE BELL, Financial Officer

HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant

ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice


CONSULTANTS (p.R6):

MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer, Silver Spring, MD

JOAN MACHAMER, Independent Consultant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


REVIEWERS (p.R7):

Dan G. Blazer, Duke University Medical Center

Linda Cowan, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Sandro Galea, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan

Tessa Hart, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network

Janice L. Krupnick, Department of Psychiatry, Trauma and Loss Program, Georgetown University Medical Center

James L. Levenson, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine

Kathryn Saatman, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center

Murray B. Stein, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego


"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Dr. Johanna T. Dwyer, Tufts University School of Medicine and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Frances Stern Nutrition Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Dr. Robert S. Lawrence, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Appointed by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of the report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of the report rests entirely with the author committee and the institution." (p.R7)

"The current series of studies on Gulf War and Health, of which this study is one, began in 1998 when Congress passed two laws on Gulf War veterans’ health in response to the recognition that many Gulf War veterans returning from the 1991 Persian Gulf War were suffering from a multisymptom illness of poorly understood pathogenesis that proved difficult to diagnose and treat." (p.R13)


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VIII.

Gulf War and Health: Volume 8: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War (2010)

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12835&page=R1

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War, Update 2009
Board on the Health of Select Populations

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES" (p.R1)

"INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; Advising the Nation. Improving Health." (p.R3)

"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.R4)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: HEALTH EFFECTS OF SERVING IN THE GULF WAR, UPDATE 2009 (p.R5):

STEPHEN L. HAUSER (Chair), Professor and Chair of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

ALVARO ALONSO, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

ROBERT H. BROWN, JR., Chair and Professor of Neurology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

DOUGLAS A. DROSSMAN, Co-director, University of North Carolina Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorder, and Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

W. DANA FLANDERS, Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

MATTHEW C. KEIFER, Co-director, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, and Professor of Occupational Medicine, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center

FRANCINE LADEN, Associate Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

JENNIFER D. PECK, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

BEATE R. RITZ, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health

REBECCA P. SMITH, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine

EZRA S. SUSSER, Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University

CHRISTINA M. WOLFSON, Director, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Department of Medicine, McGill University


STUDY STAFF (p.R6):

ROBERTA WEDGE, Study Director

RENEE WLODARCZYK, Senior Program Associate

PATRICK BAUR, Research Associate

JOSEPH GOODMAN, Senior Program Assistant

CHRISTIE BELL, Financial Officer

FREDRICK ERDTMANN, Director, Board on the Health of Select Populations


REVIEWERS (p.R7):

Alberto Ascherio, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health
Floyd E. Bloom, Department of Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute

Gregory L. Burke, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Edward V. Loftus, Jr., Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic

Anne Louise Oaklander, Center for Shingles and Postherpetic Neuralgia, Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert D. Sparks, California Medical Association Foundation

Carol A. Tamminga, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Nancy Fugate Woods, University of Washington School of Nursing

"
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of the report was overseen by Harold C. Sox, American College of Physicians of Internal Medicine. Appointed by the NRC and the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of the report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of the report rests entirely with the author committee and the institution." (p.R7)

"As scientists and clinicians, the committee members are also aware of our responsibilities not only to those who served in the Gulf War coalition but also to the cause of science and evidence-based medicine." (p.R9)

"Many other veterans have not experienced the full array of Gulf War illness symptoms but continue to suffer from seemingly related symptoms, including persistent fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, memory problems, headache, bodily pains, disturbances of sleep, as well as other physical and emotional problems. Many of these symptoms are difficult to categorize as they have no known cause, no objective findings on clinical examination, no diagnostic biomarkers, no known tissue pathology, and no curative therapy. The inadequate basic understanding of the root cause of these symptoms highlights the limitations of current medical science and clinical practice. The committee recognizes that symptoms that cannot be easily quantified are sometimes dismissed—incorrectly—as insignificant, and that they receive inadequate attention—and funding—by the medical and scientific establishment." (p.R9) Bold added - not in orignial document.

"Veterans who continue to suffer from these discouraging symptoms deserve the very best that modern science and medicine can offer to delineate the true underlying cause of these symptoms in order to speed the development of effective treatments, cures, and, it is hoped, preventions. The committee suggests a path forward to accomplish these goals and we believe that, through a concerted national effort and rigorous scientific input, answers can likely be found." (p.R10) Bold added - not in orignial document.


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IX:

Gulf War and Health: Treatment for Chronic Multisymptom Illness (2013)

http://www.nap.edu/download.php?record_id=13539

"Committee on Gulf War and Health: Treatment for Chronic Multisymptom Illness

Board on the Health of Select Populations

Institue of Medicine of the National Academies" (p.2)

"Institute of Medicine of the National Academies; Advising the Nation. Improving Health" (p.4)


"Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences... Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine." (p.5)


COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC MULTISYMPTOM ILLNESS (p.6):

BERNARD M. ROSOF (Chair), Chairman, Board of Directors,
Huntington Hospital, Huntington, NY

DIANA D. CARDENAS, Professor and Chair, Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller
School of Medicine, Miami, FL

FRANK V. deGRUY, Woodward-Chrisholm Professor and Chair,
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of
Medicine, Aurora, CO

DOUGLAS A. DROSSMAN, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and
Psychiatry, Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility
Disorders, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and
Drossman Center for the Education and Practice of Biopsychosocial
Care, Chapel Hill, NC

FRANCESCA C. DWAMENA, Professor and Acting Chair, Department
of Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

JAVIER I. ESCOBAR, Associate Dean for Global Health, University of
Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

WAYNE A. GORDON, Jack Nash Professor and Vice Chair, Department
of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, NY

ISABEL V. HOVERMAN, Physician, Austin Internal Medicine
Associates, LLP, Austin, TX

WAYNE JONAS, President and CEO, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA

JOANNA G. KATZMAN, Associate Professor, Department of
Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine,
Albuquerque, NM

ELAINE L. LARSON, Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University
School of Nursing, New York, NY

STEPHEN RAY MITCHELL, Dean of Medical Education, Georgetown
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

KAREN A. ROBINSON, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine,
Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD

KASISOMAYAJULA VISWANATH, Associate Professor, Department of
Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public
Health, Boston, MA

LORI ZOELLNER, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA


STAFF (p.7):

ABIGAIL MITCHELL, Study Director

CARY HAVER, Associate Program Officer

JONATHAN SCHMELZER, Senior Program Assistant

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor

GARY WALKER, Financial Officer

JIM BANIHASHEMI, Financial Officer

FREDERICK ERDTMANN, Director, Board on the Health of Select Populations


REVIEWERS (p.8):

Niloofar Afari, University of California, San Diego

Melvin S. Blanchard, Washington University School of Medicine

Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Sandro Galea, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Naomi L. Gerber, George Mason University

Thomas V. Holohan, Clinical Evaluation, LLC; formerly Veterans Health Administration

David R. Nerenz, Henry Ford Health System

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, University of California, San Francisco

Karen S. Quigley, Northeastern University and Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Medical Center

Sandra J. W. Smeeding, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System

Nancy Fugate Woods, University of Washington School of Nursing
"Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive
comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions
or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its
release. The review of the report was overseen by Lynn R. Goldman, Dean,
the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health
Services, and Enriqueta C. Bond, President Emeritus, Burroughs Wellcome
Fund. Appointed by the National Research Council and the Institute of
Medicine, respectively, they were responsible for making certain that an
independent examination of the report was carried out in accordance with
institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered.
Responsibility for the final content of the report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution." (p.9)

"The committee was convened to review, evaluate, and summarize the available scientific and medical literature regarding the best treatments for chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) in Gulf War veterans." (p.10)

"We undertook a thorough review of the studies (1) already completed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on this general topic and then expanded the evidence base by conducting a systematic search of the available scientific and medical literature regarding the best treatments for CMI." (p.10)

"(1) IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2001. Gulf War Veterans: Treating Symptoms and Syndromes. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; IOM. 2010. Gulf War and Health, Volume 8: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press." (p.10)

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"We undertook a thorough review of the studies (1) already completed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on this general topic and then expanded the evidence base by conducting a systematic search of the available scientific and medical literature regarding the best treatments for CMI." (p.10)
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Something like that presents a biased view if that was done in ME/CFS as after all where has most of the research been done in? GET and CBT by those who already held a biased slant in those directions and who focused on not our whole symptom complex but rather things just like "fatigue" to the igorance of the other symptoms.

Things ME/CFS patients have found the most useful, most of them havent been even studied yet eg methylation protocol, nor has there been many studies done in things like antiviral treatments and other treatments in ME/CFS.

Also due to just "fatigue" patients often being called CFS patients in some studies... this also screws with what would be come up with if studies are looked at without taking out the the "fatigue" studies (eg some of the very bad CFS defination ones) from the others.
 

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Here is your key which lays the groundwork that determiness the criteria for EBC:
Does this sound like ME/CFS Symptoms
"Many other veterans have not experienced the full array of Gulf War illness symptoms but continue to suffer from seemingly related symptoms, including persistent fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, memory problems, headache, bodily pains, disturbances of sleep, as well as other physical and emotional problems.
1.Many of these symptoms are difficult to categorize as they have no known cause,...Bingo!
2. no objective findings on clinical examination,... Bingo!
3 no diagnostic biomarker...Bingo!
4 no known tissue pathology, ...Bingo!
5. no curative therapy....Bingo!
This is the foundation of EBC

Sink the policy and you sink the ship!!
 
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