Post-Catastrophe Crisis: Addressing the Dramatic Need and Scant Availability of Mental Health Care in the Gulf Coast

Date: October 31, 2007
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-342

Witnesses

Panel 1

Kathryn

Power

Director, Center for Mental Health Services

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

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Panel 2

Dr.

Anthony

Speier

Director, Disaster Mental Health Operations

Louisiana Office of Mental Health

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Panel 2

Dr.

Jan

Kasofsky

Executive Director

Capital Area Human Services District

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Panel 2

Kevin U.

Stephens

Director

New Orleans Health Department

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Panel 3

Dr.

Ronald

Kessler

Professor of Health Care Policy

Harvard Medical School

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Panel 3

Dr.

Howard

Osofsky

Chairman, Department of Psychiatry

LSU Health Sciences Center

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Panel 3

Dr.

Mark

Townsend

Director of Psychiatry

Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans

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