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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Advisory Council 73rd Meeting

Speaker: National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)

Date: February 7, 2020 - 10:00 a.m. ET to 3:20 p.m. ET

NIH VideoCast

Meeting Minutes

Event Description

You will be able to view the Open Session at https://videocast.nih.gov when the event is live.

Closed Session

8:30 a.m.This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C. and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
9:45 a.m.Break

Open Session

10:00 a.m.Call to Order and Brief Review of Council Operating Procedures
Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
10:20 a.m.NCCIH Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
11:00 a.m.

Concept Clearances

1) Integrating Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Training for Mid-Career Investigators
Lanay Mudd, Ph.D., Merav Sabri, Ph.D., and William (Bill) Elwood, Ph.D.

2) HEAL Initiative Concept: Imaging of Myofascial Tissues: Potential Impact for Musculoskeletal Pain Research
Merav Sabri, Ph.D. and Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.

3) Blueprint Initiative Concept: Functional Neural Circuits of Interoception
Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.

4) Underlying Mechanisms of Force-based Manipulations: High Priority Research Networks
Merav Sabri, Ph.D.

NOONLunch
1:00 p.m.

Symposium on Clinical Trials and Oversight

Introduction
Helene M. Langevin, M.D. and David Shurtleff, Ph.D.

NIH Policy and Overview
Michael Lauer, M.D. (Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH)

NCCIH Implementation of Clinical Trials Oversight
Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D. and Catherine Meyers, M.D.

3:15 p.m.Public Comment
3:20 p.m.Adjourn

Speakers

Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.
Chief, Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland

Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland

William (Bill) Elwood, Ph.D.
OppNet Coordinator/Health Scientist Administrator
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research 
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
Executive Secretary, NACCIH
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH 
Bethesda, Maryland

Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH 
Bethesda, Maryland

Michael Lauer, M.D.
Deputy Director for Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Catherine Meyers, M.D.
Director, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Lanay Mudd, Ph.D.
Program Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Merav Sabri, Ph.D.
Program Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland