Health IT can help combat mental health crisis
Dr. Nishi Rawat, cofounder of OpenBeds, an addiction treatment connection service, talks about the mental health and substance abuse disorder crisis and the role health IT can play in managing it. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - March 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Quasi-species Suppression of Viral Drug Resistance
NIH Director ’ s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
This is the annual George Khoury Lecture, which honors the memory of Dr. George Khoury (1943 – 1987), a highly regarded NIH virologist and caring mentor of the postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory.
Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, Ph.D., is the Violetta L. Horton Research Professor of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her laboratory focuses on identification of dominant drug targets for antiviral design, such as small molecules that stabilize oligomeric assemblages. A past recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, Dr. Kirkegaard combines her interest...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
An Afternoon of Comedy with Asperger's Are Us
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Office of Autism Research Coordination (OARC) is pleased to host An Afternoon of Comedy with Asperger ’ s Are Us, the first comedy troupe composed entirely of people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (autism).Air date: 4/7/2021 2:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Peril in the Air: Pollution Activism on Film
Moving images prove a powerful medium for conveying the impact of polluted air on humans and other living things. This often-invisible menace can have catastrophic effects. In 1948, the Donora Smog in Pennsylvania killed 20 and sickened half of the town ’ s population, while in the UK the Great Smog of 1952 led to 12,000 deaths — and a Clean Air Act just four years later. Add to these events Rachel Carson ’ s 1962 book Silent Spring, and the modern environmental movement took root. Legislative and societal changes followed on both sides of the Atlantic. In this presentation of select US and British films on air pollu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Women Leaders in Academic Research - Keep Calm and Break Glass: The Gender Equity Imperative
Invited monthly lecture series highlighting and honoring women leaders in academic research, especially related disciplines of Interventional Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Imaging Sciences, Data Science, and Image-Guided Oncology. The honorary lecture series was established as a small effort to help counter the under-representation of women in academic research& the impact of gender disparity and implicit bias on role modeling and mentoring. Monthly topics are open-ended and are geared towards highlighting successful female or other under-represented academic leaders, as role models for trainees. The inaugu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Women Leaders in Academic Research
Invited monthly lecture series highlighting and honoring women leaders in academic research, especially related disciplines of Interventional Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Imaging Sciences, Data Science, and Image-Guided Oncology. The honorary lecture series was established as a small effort to help counter the under-representation of women in academic research& the impact of gender disparity and implicit bias on role modeling and mentoring. Monthly topics are open-ended and are geared towards highlighting successful female or other under-represented academic leaders, as role models for trainees.Air dat...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Mental Health Impact of the COVID Pandemic: A Major Life Stressor
Speaker Naomi M. Simon, MD, who has led seminal research in this field during a distinguished 20-year career at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), will join NYU Langone ’ s Department of Psychiatry in July 2017 to oversee its new Anxiety and Complicated Grief Program. Under her stewardship, and building on her strengths as a program developer and clinical innovator, the new service will focus on investigating and treating panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complicated grief.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/si...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Mental Health Council Meeting - February 2021
National Advisory Mental Health Council Open Policy SessionAir date: 2/2/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
CC Grand Rounds: Before and After COVID-19: Mental Health Impact of the Pandemic on Those With and Without Mental Illness
For more information go tohttps://cc.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 1/27/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
CC Grand Rounds: Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers: : The Inestimable Value of Mentorship
For more information go tohttps://cc.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 1/13/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
" Peril in the Air: Pollution Activism on Film "
Moving images prove a powerful medium for conveying the impact of polluted air on humans and other living things. This often-invisible menace can have catastrophic effects. In 1948, the Donora Smog in Pennsylvania killed 20 and sickened half of the town ’ s population, while in the UK the Great Smog of 1952 led to 12,000 deaths — and a Clean Air Act just four years later. Add to these events Rachel Carson ’ s 1962 book Silent Spring, and the modern environmental movement took root. Legislative and societal changes followed on both sides of the Atlantic. In this presentation of select US and British films on air pollu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIMH Advisory Mental Health Council Meeting - February 2021
National Advisory Mental Health Council Open Policy SessionAir date: 2/2/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The contagion next time: Underlying socioeconomic and racial divides and our risk from COVID and future pandemics
Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Pro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
ORWH 30th Anniversary Scientific Symposium
This symposium, titled “ Advancing the Health of Women Through Science, ” will feature opening remarks by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, a keynote address on women ’ s mental health across the life course, and a panel of directors from several NIH Institutes and Centers discussing their perspectives on women ’ s health. Additional presentations will discuss high-priority women ’ s health topics, such as applying the principle of studying sex as a biological variable across scientific disciplines.Air date: 12/15/2020 9:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Annual Meeting (20th Anniversary of Program)
Celebrating its 20th year, BIRCWH is a mentored career-development program connecting junior faculty — known as BIRCWH Scholars — to senior faculty with shared interests in women ’ s health and sex differences research. The annual meeting brings BIRCWH Scholars and faculty together to share research and experiences. The 4th Ruth L. Kirschstein Memorial Lectureship will focus on the importance of and improvements made in mentoring young investigators. The plenary session will feature presentations on research findings by leading BIRCWH Scholars. A special “ Innovation Talk ” to celebrate the 20th anniversary of th...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
