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

Bridging the Gap Between What Health Professionals Should Do to Help Smokers Quit and What They Actually Do: What is the Role of Public Health Care Workers and the NIH?
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. External Website Policy
Distinguished Professor of Health Care
Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Resources

Tuesday, June 18, 2013
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Building 45 (Natcher), Balcony B


Achieving Scientific Equity for the Prevention of Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders in Minorities and Other Populations
C. Hendricks Brown, Ph.D. External Website Policy
Professor and Director, Prevention Science and Methodology Group (PSMG)
Director, Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM)
Director, Social Systems Informatics Center for Family Studies
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Resources

Thursday, May 9, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Natcher Auditorium, Balcony A


Helping Smokers With Behavioral Health Comorbidity Requires a National Effort
Jill Marie Williams, M.D.
Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Resources

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
10:00 a.m. – noon
Natcher Auditorium, Balcony C


Raising the Bar: Engineering Optimized Behavioral Interventions for Increased Public Health Impact
Linda M. Collins, Ph.D. External Website Policy
Director, The Methodology Center
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Department of Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University

Resources

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
10:00 a.m. – noon
Natcher Auditorium, Balcony B


Evidence-Informed Factors for Promoting Psychological Resilience in the U.S. Military
Terri Tanielian, M.A. External Website Policy
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. External Website Policy
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 External Website Policy
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. External Website Policy
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. External Website Policy
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. External Website Policy
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. External Website Policy
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 External Website Policy
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