[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 52273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22196]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Special Medical Advisory Group; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Special Medical 
Advisory Group will meet on October 15, 2003, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The 
meeting will be held at the Department of Veterans Affairs Central 
Office, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 830, Washington, DC. The meeting 
is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Special Medical Advisory Group is to advise the 
Secretary and Under Secretary for Health on matters relating to the 
care and treatment of veterans, and other matters pertinent to the 
Veterans Health Administration such as research, education and 
training, and VA/DOD contingency planning. The agenda for the meeting 
will include discussions of strategic clinical issues of research, 
education and training of health care professionals, health manpower, 
and long term care.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Ms. 
Sylvia Best, Office of the Under Secretary for Health, Department of 
Veterans Affairs, at (202) 273-5806. No time will be set aside at this 
meeting for receiving oral presentations from the public. Statements, 
in written form, may be filed before the meeting or within 10 days 
after the meeting.

    Dated: August 20, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-22196 Filed 8-29-03; 8:45 am]
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