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2025 Webinar Series

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Registration link for Non-VA employees will be available closer to each webinar date.

Date Title/Level Category Presenters
10/08/2024 WRIISC-HOME: Potential Relationship Between Military Exposures & Traumatic Brain Injury (Advanced)
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Cognitive and Psychological Health

Special Topics
Maheen M. Adamson, PhD, MHL - Research Director WOMEN COE
Stuart Hoffman, PhD – Senior Health Science Officer – Office of Research and Development
11/12/2024 WRIISC-HOME: Health Coaching Veterans with Gulf War Illness (GWI) and Chronic Multi-symptom Illness (CMI). Do symptoms improve? (Introductory)


Chronic Milti-Symptom Illness

Cognitive & Psychological Health
Rebecca McCullers, RN, NBC-HWC, DC WRIISC
Robert Forsten, DO, MS: Senior Clinician and Psychiatry Consultant, DC WRIISC
Walt Jachimowicz, RN, NBC-HWC, DC WRIISC Health Wellness Coach
12/10/2024 WRIISC-HOME: What do Veterans tell us about their experience of care for military environmental exposures? (Intermediate)
Exposures

Exposures
Katharine Bloeser, LICSW, PhD, Researcher - NJ WRIISC
01/14/2025 WRIISC-HOME: Complex and Emerging Military Exposure Threats (Intermediate)
Exposures

Exposures
TJose Ortiz, MD, MPH, FACOEM: Associate Director, CETC, DC WRIISC
Calvin Lu, MA, PhD, CETC, DC WRIISC Staff Scientist
Harold Yu, BS, MPAS Physician Assistant Program Manager, CETC, DC WRIISC
02/11/2025 WRIISC-HOME: CMI in post 9/11-era Veterans and US Civilians: A comparison. (Intermediate) Chronic Multi-Symptom Illness

Airborne Hazards
Michele Madden, Medical Statistician - HOME
Erin Dursa, PhD, MPH- Director Surveillance Military Environmental Exposures (SMEE)
Aaron Schneiderman, PhD, MPH, RN – Director of Epidemiology Program, HOME
03/11/2025 WRIISC-HOME: K2 Surveillance Program (Introductory)

William Culpepper, PhD, MA, Deputy Director Epidemiology - HOME
Anisa Moore, MD, Director VET-HOME
04/08/2025 WRIISC-HOME: Menopause in the Women Veteran Population (Intermediate)
Jennifer Jennings, MD, WOMEN CoE Clinical Director, CA WRIISC
Erin Dursa, PhD, MPH- Director Surveillance Military Environmental Exposures (SMEE) - HOME
Carrie Gibson, PhD – Clinical Research Psychologist – San Francisco VAHCS
05/13/2025 WRIISC-HOME: High Exposure Populations: Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians and the development of exposure summary for clinical care (Intermediate

Exposures

Exposures
Immanuel Samuel, PhD: Associate Scientific Director, DC WRIISC / CETC / HJF
John Barrett, MD, MPH, MS, FAAFP, FACPM, FACOEM: Medical Director and Deputy Director DC WRIISC/CETC
Sherri Tschida, PhD, MA, Clinical Psychology: Advance Fellow in Complex Exposures, DC WRIISC/ CETC
06/10/2025 WRIISC-HOME: Dyspnea on Exertion and Airborne Hazards Exposure (Intermediate)
Airborne Hazards

Airborne Hazards
Daniel Wilhite, PhD, Research Investigator, AHBPCE, NJ WRIISC
Michael Falvo, PhD: Co-Director AHBPCE, NJ WRIISC
Anays Sotolongo, MD: Co-Director AHBPCE, NJ WRIISC
07/8/2025 WRIISC-HOME: Military Environmental Exposures and Risk of Breast Cancer: Clinical Observations and Noteworthy Research (Intermediate)
Exposures

Exposures
Dylan Jester, PhD, MPH, Research Statistician - WOMEN CoE, CA WRIISC Haley Moss, MD, MBA, Director Breast and Gynecologic Oncology System of Excellence – Durham VAMC
08/12/2025 WRIISC-HOME: VA Coordination with DoD Cancer Studies – Missile Silo and Pilot Occupations (Intermediate)
Peter Rumm, MD, MPH, FACPM - HOME Director of Policy
09/09/2025 WRIISC-HOME: Mitochondrial function and potential relevance to Gulf War Illness (Intermediate): 90 Mins
Edward Shadiack, MD, NJ WRIISC
Omowunmi Osinubi, MD, NJ WRIISC