Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Medicine: Mind the Gap, NIH Seminar Series

Previous Seminars

Evidence-Informed Factors for Promoting Psychological Resilience in the U.S. Military
Terri Tanielian, M.A.
Senior Research Analyst
RAND Corporation

Resources

Thursday, September 20, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Balcony A
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland

Presented by
Office of Disease Prevention
Office of Dietary Supplements
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism


Cancer Care: The Patient’s Role, Palliative Care, and Implications for Health Policy
Amy Berman, R.N.
Senior Program Officer
The John A. Hartford Foundation

Resources

Friday, August 3, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland

Presented by
Office of Disease Prevention
Office of Research on Women’s Health
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine


Communicating Possible Harms and Benefits of Treatment and Lifestyle
Professor David Spiegelhalter, OBE, FRS
Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
Senior Scientist
Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit
Associate Fellow
Centre for Science and Policy
University of Cambridge

Resources

Wednesday, June 20, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


The Evidence-to-Practice Gap: Teaching Clinicians Evidence-based Medicine
W. Scott Richardson, M.D.
Campus Associate Dean for Curriculum
Georgia Health Sciences University/The
University of Georgia Medical Partnership

Resources

Thursday, May 17, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


The Pressure To Get It Right: Biases in Biomedical Research
John Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc.
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention
Director

Stanford Prevention Research Center

Resources

Monday, March 19, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Main Auditorium
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


Innovative Approaches to Clinical Trials
Robert M. Califf, M.D.
Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research
Director

Duke Translational Medicine Institute
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center

Resources

Thursday, March 8, 2012
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland

Presented by:
Office of Disease Prevention
National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute on Drug Abuse


The Skin You’re In: Making Progress in Eliminating Health Inequalities
Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D.
Director
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Resources

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


Peer-to-Peer Healthcare
Susannah Fox
Associate Director
Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Resources

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
10:00 a.m. – noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Rooms E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


Gaps (and Gasps!) in Medical-Ethical Reasoning: From Ethical Theory to Medical Practice
Heidi Malm, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
Loyola University Chicago

Resources

Thursday, October 29, 2009
2:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Building 50 Conference Room
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


Overtreated: The Role of Medical Evidence in Reducing Practice Variation and Controlling Costs
Shannon Brownlee
Visiting Scholar
NIH Clinical Center
Department of Bioethics
Senior Fellow
New America Foundation

Resources

Friday, March 27, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Building 50 Conference Room
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland


Chaos in the Brickyard: Translational Research in 2007
David F. Ransohoff, M.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Resources

November 5, 2007
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Natcher Conference Center, E1/E2
NIH Campus | Bethesda, Maryland