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2001 DHS OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

On November 13, 2001, Dr. Michael E. Kilpatrick, deployment health support director, participated in a joint presentation entitled "Protecting the Health of Deployed Military Personnel" at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta, Georgia.


Outreach team travels to the Far East

A six-person team from the Directorate for Deployment Health Support was in Korea October 11-15, 2001, to meet with leadership, health care providers, individual servicemembers and family members regarding deployment health. The outreach visit was designed to raise awareness among the total force — active duty, National Guard/Reserve, retired and separated military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, Gulf War veterans and their families — on deployment-related issues. Some of the topics discussed included health-related deployment preparations, perceptions of the pre-deployment health process, health/environmental surveillance procedures used in theater, clinical practice guidelines for deployment-related health concerns, post-deployment health assessments, and Gulf War illnesses-related research.


Deployment Health support team visits Korea

Dateline: Yongsan, Republic of Korea -- Both commanders and troops made one thing clear to the Deployment Health outreach team visiting Korea. Despite the higher operational tempo during the war on terrorism, protecting service members from health risks during deployments is still important.

Michael Kilpatrick, M.D., the Department of Defense's Director of Deployment Health Support, led a six-man outreach team in the Far East to raise awareness of deployment health issues. The first leg of the trip included four days of briefings and meetings in the Republic of Korea.

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