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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> June 15, 2001
> Contact: Steven Solomon, 202-782-2672, [log in to unmask]
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> NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE ANNOUNCES
> "MARCH ON, WOMAN: WOMEN'S HEALTH AND WOMEN IN THE MILITARY"
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> WASHINGTON - The National Museum of Health and Medicine has announced that
> "March On, Woman: Women's Health and Women in the Military" will be
> offered as a noontime brown-bag series Monday through Thursday, June
> 25-28, 2001. The series will examine specific issues pertaining to women
> and women's health in the United States military through a series of
> lectures that will address topics of interest to both civilian and
> military audiences.
> Subjects include a look at specific research being done in women's health
> by military personnel; health issues faced by women in the military;
> career highlights of outstanding women in military medicine; sexual trauma
> in the military; mental health challenges of military women; and health
> issues for women on deployment.
> * June 25 -- Army Lt. Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., program
> director, Mental Health Policy and Women's Issues, Office of the Assistant
> Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs, will provide an overview of mental
> health concerns of women in the military, as well as discuss issues of
> sexual trauma in the military.
> * June 26 - Air Force Maj. Christine Brown Teal, M.D., an attending
> general surgeon at Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews AFB in Maryland,
> will discuss the medical services in the DC area available to active duty
> and dependent military women with breast cancer, including the latest
> breast cancer procedures such as sentinel lymph node mapping.
> * June 27 -- Navy Cmdr. Curtis Ollayos, M.D., M.P.H., a cytopathologist in
> the Department of Cellular Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of
> Pathology, will talk about his research on the relative risks for
> hpv-related cervical disease among beneficiaries of the military
> healthcare system.
> * June 28 -- Army Lt. Col. Pauline Knapp, who commands the 56th Evacuation
> Battalion at Ft. Bragg, N.C. and whose upcoming assignment will be as the
> assistant executive officer to the Army Surgeon General in Falls Church,
> Va., will discuss women's health in the military, as well as her command
> of a hospital during a recent deployment to Bosnia.
> This series is presented as part of the public programs being offered for
> "The Changing Face of Women's Health" exhibition that is currently on view
> at the museum.
> The museum is located on the campus of Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
> 6900 Georgia Ave., NW, Building 54, Washington, DC 20307. 202-782-2200.
> www.natmedmuse.afip.org. Free admission and parking.
> The National Museum of Health and Medicine, founded as the Army Medical
> Museum in 1862 to study and improve medical conditions during the American
> Civil War, is an element of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Open
> daily except Dec. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the museum is located at
> Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave. and Elder Street, NW,
> Washington, D.C. Public telephone number is 202-782-2200 and the web site
> is www.natmedmuse.afip.org <http://www.natmedmuse.afip.org>. Admission and
> parking are free.
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> Air Force Maj. Christine Brown Teal, M.D.
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> Army Lt. Col. Pauline Knapp
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