V. APPENDIX

PGW HEARING WITNESSES

1. ``The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome'' March 11, 1996. Brian Martin, Gulf veteran, Niles, MI; William Gleason, Gulf veteran, Syracuse, NY; Randy Wheeler, Gulf veteran, Hoover, AL; Kimo Hollingsworth, Gulf veteran, Washington, DC; Dr. John Bailar, chair, Committee to Review Health Consequences of Service During the Gulf War, Institute of Medicine; Thomas Cross, Gulf veteran, member, Presidential Advisory Committee on GW Veterans Illnesses; Charles Sheehan-Miles, executive director, National Gulf War Resources Center; Dr. Robyn Nishimi, executive director, Presidential Advisory Committee; Matthew Puglisi, assistant director, National Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission, American Legion; Kelli Willard-West, director of government relations, Vietnam Veterans of America; Dennis Cullinan, deputy director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Lennox Gilmer, associate national legislative director, Disabled American Veterans; and, Scott Vanderhayden, Gulf War Service Coordinator, Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Victims.

2. ``Status of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome, Part II'' March 28, 1996. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, Deputy Under Secretary of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Daniel Clauw, assistant professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine; Dr. Penny Pierce, Gulf veteran, University of Michigan School of Nursing; and, Dr. Howard Urnovitz, chief scientific officer, Calptye Biomedical Corp.

3. ``Status of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome, Part III'' June 25, 1996. Dr. Stephen Joseph, Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, Department of Defense; Gary Hickman, Director of Atlanta Regional Office, Department of Veterans Affairs; Diane Dulka, widow of Gulf veteran Joseph Dulka, Windsor Locks, CT; and, Dr. William Marcus, toxicologist, Washington, DC.

4. ``Status of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome, Part IV'' September 19, 1996. Brian Martin, Gulf veteran, Niles, MI; Barry Kapplan, Gulf veteran, Southington, CT; Nancy Kapplan, registered nurse, Southington, CT; Nick Roberts, Gulf veteran, Port St. Joe Beach, FL; Denise Nichols, Gulf veteran, Wheat Ridge, CO; Sylvia Copeland, Chief, PGW Veterans Task Force, Central Intelligence Agency; Dr. Frances Murphy, Director, Environmental Agents Service, Department of Veterans Affairs; James Tuite, director, Gulf War Research Foundation; Dr. William Baumzweiger, neurologist and psychiatrist, Los Angeles, CA; Dr. Claudia Miller, assistant professor, Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center; and, Dr. Stephanie Padilla, research neurotoxicologist, Environmental Protection Agency.

5. ``Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses'' December 10, 1996. Major Michael Johnson, U.S. Army, Gulf veteran; Gy/Sgt. George Grass, U.S. Marine Corps, Gulf veteran; Major Randy Hebert, U.S. Marine Corps (retired), Gulf veteran; Patrick Eddington, former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; Julia Dyckman, Gulf veteran, Harrisburg, PA; and, Robert Larrisey, Gulf veteran, Chalphont, PA.

6. ``Persian Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses'' December 11, 1997. Dr. Susan Mather, Chief, Public Health & Environmental Hazards Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Charles Jackson, physician, Tuskegee (AL) VA Medical Center; and, Dr. Victor Gordan, physician, Manchester (NH) VA Medical Center.

7. ``Gulf War Syndrome: To Examine New Studies Suggesting Links Between Gulf Service and Higher Rates of Illnesses'' January 21, 1997. Dr. Kenneth Kizer, Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for GW Illnesses, Department of Defense; Admiral Donald Custis, M.D. (retired), member, Presidential Advisory Committee on GW Veterans' Illnesses; Dr. Robert Haley, director of epidemiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Dr. David Schwartz, professor of internal and preventive medicine, University of Iowa School of Medicine; Dr. Frank Duffy, associate professor of neurology, Harvard Medical School; Chris Kornkven, Gulf veteran, Watertown, WI; James Brown, Gulf veteran, Hannibal, MO; and, James Green, Gulf veteran, Fishertown, PA.

8. ``Status of the Department of Veteran's Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome'' April 24, 1997. Michael Donnelly, Gulf veteran, South Windsor, CT; Susan Sumpter-Loebig, Gulf veteran, Hagerstown, MD; Steven Wood, Gulf veteran, Grossostheim, Germany; Dr. Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for GW Illnesses, Department of Defense; Robert Walpole, Special Assistant for GW Illnesses, Central Intelligence Agency; Donald Mancuso, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense; Dr. Jonathan Tucker, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, Monterey (CA) Institute of International Studies; Dr. Satu Somani, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, University of Southern Illinois School of Medicine; and, Dr. Thomas Tiedt, researcher and neuroscientist, Longboat Key, FL.

9. ``The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome: Recent GAO Findings'' June 24, 1997. Dr. Donna Heivilin, Director, Planning and Reporting, General Accounting Office.

10. ``Status of Efforts to Identify Gulf War Syndrome: Multiple Toxic Exposures'' June 26, 1997. Gilbert Roman, Gulf veteran, Denver, CO; Paul Canterbury, Gulf veteran, Ashley, OH; Michael Stacy, Gulf veteran, Inola, OK; S/Sgt. Mark Zeller, U.S. Army, Ft. Rucker, AL; Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, Deputy Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dr. Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for GW Illnesses, Department of Defense; Dr. Garth Nicolson, chief scientist, Institute for Molecular Medicine; Dr. Asaf Durakovic, researcher and radiation expert, Silver Spring, MD; and, Leonard Dietz, General Electric scientist (retired), Niskayuna, NY.

11. ``The Oversight of NIH and FDA: Bio-Ethics & the Adequacy of Informed Consent'' May 8, 1997. Dr. William Raub, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. David Satcher, Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health; Mary Pendergast, J.D., Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Arthur Caplan, professor of Bio-Ethics, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Benjamin Wilfond, professor of pediatrics, University of Arizona; Dr. Peter Lurie, professor of medicine, University of California-San Francisco; and, Laurie Flynn, executive director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Additional views of Hon. Henry A. Waxman, Hon. Edolphus Towns, Hon. Paul E. Kanjorski, Hon. Thomas M. Barrett, Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hon. Chaka Fattah, Hon. Elijah E. Cummings, Hon. Danny K. Davis, Hon. John F. Tierney, and Hon. Harold E. Ford, Jr.