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Advisory Council 87th Meeting

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

Date: May 17, 2024

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

11:10 a.m.Call to Order   
Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.
11:20 a.m.NCCIH Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report 
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
12:20 p.m.Council Working Group on Spiritual Health
Helene Benveniste, M.D., Ph.D.
12:50 p.m.LUNCH BREAK
1:50 p.m.NCCIH Portfolio Analysis
Angela Arensdorf, Ph.D.
2:40 p.m.NCCIH Strategic Planning Process Update
Mary Beth Kester, M.S.
2:50 p.m.BREAK
3:00 p.m.The NIH HEAL Initiative
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
3:30 p.m.NCCIH’s Updated Clinical Trial Funding Opportunities
Wendy J. Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
3:40 p.m.Update on Concept for Reissue of “REsearch Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Virtual Resource Centers” 
Lanay Mudd, Ph.D.
3:50 p.m.Update on Concept for HEAL Research Enhancement Award Program
Alexander H. Tuttle, Ph.D.
4:00 p.m.Public Comments
4:10 p.m.Adjourn

FUTURE MEETINGS: September 13, 2024; January 24, 2025; May 16, 2025; September 19, 2025; January 23, 2026; May 15, 2026; September 11, 2026

Speakers

Angela Arensdorf, Ph.D.
Health Science Policy Analyst
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland

Helene Benveniste, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

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

Mary Beth Kester, M.S.
Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation
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

Lanay Mudd, Ph.D.
Deputy Branch Chief and Program Director
Clinical Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
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

Alexander H. Tuttle, Ph.D.
Program Director, Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland

Wendy Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Branch Chief, Clinical Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland