[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 74 (Friday, April 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 20669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-8657]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee (GGAC) will be held on 
May 14, 2004, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting will convene in Room 
730 at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 4:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the 
public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to provide advice to the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs and the Under Secretary for Health on all matters 
pertaining to geriatrics and gerontology by assessing the capability of 
VA health care facilities to meet the medical, psychological and social 
needs of older veterans and by evaluating VA facilities designated as 
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (GRECCs).
    The meeting will feature presentations by the Under Secretary for 
Health and several Chief Consultants within the Veterans Health 
Administration. Those presentations will include an overview of VA's 
geriatrics program and briefings on geriatrics training, geriatrics 
research initiatives, GREC site visits in 2002-2004, and long range 
plans for the GGAC.
    No time will be allocated at this meeting for receiving oral 
presentations from the public. Interested parties can provide written 
comments for review by the Committee in advance to the meeting to Mr. 
Daniel Converse, Designated Federal Officer, Geriatrics and Extended 
Care Strategic Healthcare Group (114), Department of Veterans Affairs, 
810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Individuals who wish to 
attend the meeting should contact Ms. Jacqueline Holmes, Staff 
Assistant, at (202) 273-8539.

    Dated: April 6, 2004.
    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-8657 Filed 4-15-04; 8:45 am]
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