[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 25284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4014]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Special Medical Advisory Group; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Special Medical 
Advisory Group will meet on Friday, May 12, 2006. The meeting will be 
in Room 830 at VA Central Office, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC. The meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Group is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs and the Under Secretary for Health on the care and treatment of 
disabled veterans, and other matters pertinent to the Department's 
Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
    The agenda for the meeting will include an introduction to today's 
VA, strategies for VHA in a turbulent health care environment, 
information technology, the academic mission of VA in the next decade, 
ethics, and the optimal role of VA research.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Juanita 
Leslie, Office of Administrative Operations (10B2), Veterans Health 
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs at (202) 273-5882. No 
time will be set aside at this meeting for receiving oral presentations 
from the public. Statements, in written form, may be submitted to 
Juanita Leslie before the meeting or within 10 days after the meeting.

    Dated: April 24, 2006.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-4014 Filed 4-27-06; 8:45 am]
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