It is made up of judicial, practitioner and academic experts.
The next day, nursing practitioner Dr Ginger Savely, who claims to have treated more than 500 morgellons patients, leads an informal discussion in the conference room.
But according to chief executive John Rogers, "there is definitely a need to develop assistant practitioner roles and physician assistant or associate is at the top end of that, but there are a lot more roles we are developing which have a huge impact and are less sexy".
Barlow, the nurse practitioner, and Carolyn Rasmussen, a counsellor and case manager, hear recollections of watching sunburst explosions, sweeping ash from porches and watching relatives die.
A practitioner added: "The more you secure a block or an estate, the more it gives a message that something is wrong with that estate".
Last week, half a century later, Rebecca Barlow, a nurse practitioner at the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP), which operates from the Dixie Regional Medical Center in St George, now a prosperous little city with an airport, leafed through her patient records.
As well as six "retreaters" our party included Emma (secretly called Sergeant Major by the Berbers); Rebecca, a reiki practitioner; a yoga teacher and a beauty therapist; and around 16 members of the tribe.
The island has only one small medical clinic, where a general practitioner works a few hours each day.
