01.17.13 - American Forces Press Service , Arlington, VA
Official updates status of PTSD, TBI treatments
A top Defense Department health official told a Pentagon task force yesterday that determining the impact of mental health programs across the military will be a key project this year for the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. DCoE Director Navy Capt. Paul S. Hammer listed accomplishments over the past year as well as areas where improvement is needed, including "streamlining functions that effectively accomplish the stated DCoE mission and vision." (read more)
12.17.12 - RWTF Press Release, Alexandria, VA
Secretary of Defense Appoints New DoD Membership to the Recovering Warrior Task Force
Washington, D.C. – The RWTF is pleased to announce the appointment of its new DoD Co-Chair, Vice Admiral Matthew L. Nathan, Surgeon General of the Navy. Vice Admiral Nathan joins the Task Force with 31 years of active military service where he has served in various leadership positions in the Navy's Medical Corps including the Commander of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Navy Medicine, National Capital Area. He is the 37th surgeon general of the Navy and Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. (read more)
10.26.12 - RWTF Press Release, Alexandria, VA
DoD Recovering Warrior Task Force Visits Navy Safe Harbor Headquarters
Arlington, VA – Ms. Suzanne Crockett-Jones, Mr. Ronald Drach, Dr. Steven Phillips, and Mr. David Rehbein of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Care, Management, and Transition of Recovering Wounded, Ill, and Injured Members of the Armed Forces, commonly known as the Recovering Warrior Task Force (RWTF), will be visiting Navy Safe Harbor Headquarters from December 6 through December 7, 2012. (read more)
