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document the history and practice of medicine over the centuries.
The museum is in Bldg. 54 on the Walter Reed main
campus and is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day of the
year except Dec. 25. Phone 202-782-2200 or visit its Web site
at www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum.
For more information about the AFIP, visit the Web site at
www.afip.org, or contact the AFIP Public Affairs Office at
(202) 782-2113 or 2115.
Armed Forces Pest Management Board
The Armed Forces Pest Management Board, or AFPMB, is
a Department of Defense function under the direction of the
Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Installations and Environment. AFPMB ensures deployed
combat forces have the most effective disease vector control
and pest management capabilities to prevent adverse effects on
troops, weapons systems, supplies, equipment and installations,
using environmentally sound techniques to reduce risk.
A senior officer selected from one of the military service
branches directs AFPMB; duty rotates among the services.
Army, Navy, and Air Force officers and scientists staff it jointly.
The AFPMB offices, located at Forest Glen, include two
sections: the Directorate and the Defense Pest Management
Information Analysis Center.
The AFPMB Web site is www.afpmb.org.
Comprehensive Breast Center
The Walter Reed Comprehensive Breast Center, located on
Ward 55 of Heaton Pavilion, Bldg. 2 (main hospital), is an outgrowth
of the Clinical Breast Care Project, a congressionally
mandated military-civilian collaboration. The Breast Center
provides breast cancer screenings, diagnostic procedures, andcomprehensive
services. Broad in scope and research-centered,
the Breast Center provides all patients with the opportunity to
participate in clinical studies aimed at understanding the
genomic (genetic) changes that occur in all breast cancers.
Breast cancer patients receive treatment from all their health
care providers in the center, avoiding unnecessary multiple visits
and clinic appointments. The center's Risk Reduction
Program specializes in identifying women who are candidates
for its prevention approaches.
The most modern conference and video-teleconferencing
facilities in the Breast Center link its health care providers to
its off-site research locations, ensuring strong collaborations
between the people treating the patients and the researchers
looking for new approaches in the cure for breast cancer.
Center for Prostate Disease Research
The Center for Prostate Disease Research Clinical Trials
Research and Treatment Center at Walter Reed provides the
most advanced clinical research and treatment for patients with
prostate cancer and disease. This direct patient-care facility
enhances the center's ability to conduct clinical research,
expand its database, and continue its education and training
programs.
Congress established the CPDR in 1991 to help combat the
increasing rate of prostate disease. The program now manages
the largest, most comprehensive prostate cancer database in the
country and has made several landmark research findings that
have helped to improve diagnosis and treatment in the past
decade.
This Department of Defense program is affiliated with the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the Henry M. Jackson
Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, and
Army, Navy, and Air Force medical centers throughout the
United States.
For more information about the CPDR and its programs,
visit the Web site, www.cpdr.org.
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center is a group of
seven traumatic brain injury programs in Department of
Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and a
civilian TBI rehabilitation program. DVBIC sites collaborate
to provide services and support to help active-duty service
members, veterans and their eligible beneficiaries with TBI
return to duty, work and community. The center provides
expert case management and to ensure individualized, evidence-based
treatment for each patient to maximize function
and decrease or eliminate disability.
Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of life-long disability
and death. In earlier wars, TBI accounted for at least 14 percent
of surviving combat casualties.
In addition to its headquarters at Walter Reed, DVBIC sites
26 “Home of Warior Care and So Much More”