Advisory Panel on Research
October 24, 2007
Renaissance M Street Hotel
Agenda
8:30 a.m. - Introductions and Welcome
Larry J. Shapiro, M.D. - APR Chair
David Korn, M.D. - AAMC Sr. Vice President, Division of Biomedical
and Health Sciences Research
8:35 a.m. - NIH Appropriations and Legislative Report
David Moore - AAMC Sr. Associate Vice President, Office of Government
Relations
9 a.m. - Clinical Trials Registration
Deborah A. Zarin, M.D. - NIH National Library of Medicine
Discussion with Panel
Dr. Larry Shapiro
The panel will review the progress of the NIH clinical trials
registry and the issues that have emerged to date in light of
the APR's earlier examination of this issue in 2005. The panel
will also consider the pros and cons of new legislation on clinical
trials databases, and AAMC position.
10 a.m. - Input for NIH Research Support Systems Initiatives
Howard B. Dickler, M.D. - AAMC Director, Clinical Research
Dr. Dickler will review the NIH request for input and activities
looking at reform of peer review systems and other issues, and
will present the AAMC's several recommendations for further discussion
by the panel.
10:45 a.m. - Update on the Clinical and Translational Science
Awards Program
Barbara Alving, M.D. - Director, NIH National Center for Research
Resources
Anthony Hayward, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Director, Division for
Clinical Research Resources
Dr. Hayward has been invited to present on the status of the
CTSA program in the context of NIH and NCRR budgets. Dr. Alving
will join in discussion with the panel.
12:00 p.m. - Working Lunch
Dr. Larry Shapiro, Dr. David Korn, and AAMC Staff
The panel will wrap up morning discussions and discuss planning
for future initiatives that largely follow-on from earlier APR
meetings, including support of "T2" research (and population health,
health services, etc.) from October 2006 and options for universities
to restructure research programs in light of probable static or
contracting purchasing power of future NIH budgets.
- Use of patient population datasets to support health research
- Workshop on good practices in university collaborations (identifying
scale economies, minimizing redundancy, etc.)
- "Trusted Intermediaries" for data in genomic research
2:30 p.m. - Adjourn
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