VA Research 'Dedicated Completely to Improving Veterans' Lives'

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Apr 24, 2012, 05:04 ET

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs will commemorate this year's National VA Research Week from April 23 to 27. The theme, "Caring for Veterans Through Discovery & Collaboration," will celebrate the contributions of Veterans who participate in VA research studies, as well as the accomplishments of VA investigators and their collaborators.

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"The reason that VA research is so important is that it is the only research program dedicated completely to improving Veterans' lives," said VA Chief Research and Development Officer Joel Kupersmith, M.D. "Research Week helps us communicate to the general public what we are doing for Veterans. It's important for people to know that VA studies are done in cooperation with Veterans, and that we are for Veterans — first and always."

John P. Holdren, Ph.D., director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to President Obama, will be a featured speaker at VA's Research Week Forum on April 26. The forum, to be held at VA Central Office in Washington D.C., will highlight VA research on topics such as posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and hypertension. The program will also feature the Million Veteran Program, a pioneering effort in genomics; and the DEKA Arm, an advanced prosthetic limb.

Joining Holdren and Kupersmith at the forum will be VA and other federal government leaders, VA investigators, Veterans, and Veterans Service Organizations (VSO) representatives. Featured speakers will include:

  • Lieutenant General Charles Green, surgeon general of the Air Force;
  • Colonel Geoffrey Ling, Defense Advance Research Projects Agency;
  • U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Dan Nevins, a Wounded Warrior who lost his left leg in Iraq;
  • Terry Rauch, Ph.D., director of Medical Research and Development for the Office of Health Affairs of the Department of Defense; and
  • Veterans and researchers.

For more information about Research Week, including registering for the VA Central Office Forum, visit www.research.va.gov.

SOURCE VA Office of Research and Development

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