Members of the Wounded Veterans Panel

By The Associated Press

The nine members of the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, which President Bush created March 6 to investigate the treatment of wounded veterans:

-Bob Dole, a former Republican senator from Kansas. As a young Army officer during World War II, he was grievously wounded in action. He spent years in treatment and underwent numerous surgeries. Later became Senate Majority leader.

-Donna Shalala, former secretary of Health and Human Services under Democratic President Clinton. President of the University of Miami.

-Marc Giammatteo, a former U.S. Army captain whose leg was severely injured during an attack in Iraq. He has undergone more than 30 surgeries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

-Jose Ramos, a student at George Mason University. While in the Navy, he treated soldiers injured in Iraq. In 2004, during his second tour of duty in Iraq, he lost an arm in combat.

-Tammy Edwards, a research assistant at the Geneva Foundation. In 2005, her husband, a U.S. Army staff sergeant, was severely burned in Iraq when a 500-pound bomb exploded under his vehicle.

-Kenneth Fisher, chairman of the Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit that builds “comfort homes” for families of hospitalized veterans.

-C. Martin Harris, a physician who has served on other government and private commissions that have examined health care problems.

-Edward Eckenhoff, a leader in rehabilitation medicine and president of the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

-Gail Wilensky, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation.