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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Advisory Council 85th Meeting

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

Date: September 8, 2023

Meeting Minutes

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Agenda

Closed Session

9:00 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 1009 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended. 

Open Session

11:00 a.m.Call to Order 
Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.
11:05 p.m.NCCIH Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report     
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
NoonCouncil Group Photo and Lunch
1:00 p.m.Intramural Research Report
Helene M. Langevin, M.D. and David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
2:00 p.m.Director of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Presentation:
Enhancing the Fairness and Effectiveness of Peer Review
Noni Byrnes, Ph.D. 
3:00 p.m.

Concept Approval: Initiative CARBON Program
Barbara Sorkin, Ph.D. and Craig Hopp, Ph.D.

Concept Approval: NCCIH Merit Award
Wen Chen, Ph.D.

3:40 p.m.Public Comments
4:00 p.m.Adjourn

FUTURE MEETINGS: January 19, 2024; May 17, 2024; September 13, 2024; January 24, 2025; May 16, 2025; September 19, 2025
 

Speakers

Noni Byrnes, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Scientific Review 
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland

Wen Chen, Ph.D.
Branch 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

Craig Hopp, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Research
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

Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary, National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
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

Barbara Sorkin, Ph.D.
Director, Botanical Research Centers Program
Office of Dietary Director Supplements, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland