Good afternoon, everyone. We're going to call this meeting to order. We're at meeting number 77. We're going to continue with our study of the care of ill and injured Canadian Forces members.
Joining us for the first hour is Major Ray Wiss from the Canadian Forces Health Services. I think a lot of us are familiar with Major Wiss as an author, but he's also an emergency medicine specialist from Sudbury and a member of the Reserve Force.
In 2008, he was awarded the YMCA Peace Medal and the Ontario Medical Association Distinguished Service Award. In 2010 he received the Rotary Club's Paul Harris Award. He has been selected as the keynote speaker at the North York General Hospital Emergency Medicine Update. He's been one of our premier emergency medicine physicians and has been at a number of conferences speaking about his books, FOB DOC and A Line in the Sand, which I know a number of you have already read.
I want to welcome you, Major Wiss, to committee and extend to you our gratitude for your service to Canada. We also want to thank you for sharing the stories you have put in your books. One of the reasons we wanted to have you here today is to talk about your experience in Afghanistan and, more important, how we deal with a trauma at the front lines.
With that, I welcome you to bring your opening remarks.