Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health Public Comment Announcement
NIDCR has been charged by the Surgeon General of the United States, VADM Jerome Adams, to produce a Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health. This videocast event, hosted by RADM Tim Ricks, Chief Dental Officer, USPHS, will open the public comment period for this report.Air date: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Journey into the Black Hole of the Epigenome
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Yamini Dalal became interested in chromosome structure and epigenetic gene regulation during her Baccalaureate years at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, India, where she graduated with a double major in Biochemistry and Life Sciences in 1995. She moved to the United States for her post-graduate work. In Arnold Stein's laboratory at Purdue University, she used classical chromatin biochemistry tools to understand how DNA sequence motifs and linker histones can shape the chromatin structure in silico, in vitro, and in vivo. During this time, she discovered that the regi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIAAA Mark Keller Honorary Lecture: Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Characteristics and Correlates
NIAAA Mark Keller Honorary Lecture
Phil A. May, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), with a distinguished career spanning nearly 50 years. By studying the adverse effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, his work has advanced greatly our understanding of the prevalence, characteristics, etiology, diagnosis, and prevention of FAS and FASD. Dr. May is Professor in the Department of Nutrition of the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Nutrition Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor Emer...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and His Influence in the Changing Business of Healthcare and the Delivery of American Medicine
3rd Annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine
During his lifetime, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey developed a reputation as a leading voice decrying the growing commercialization of American medicine. At the same time, as the leader of a major medical school and as a clinical and technological innovator, Dr. DeBakey helped to transform how academic medicine and the commercial health care marketplace interacted in Houston and across the globe by working to expand the footprint of cardiovascular surgery in the United States and overseas through program building and consulting agreements as well as developing partn...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Fantastic Voyages through the Historical Audio-Visual Collections at the National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine houses an extraordinary collection of audio-visual materials numbering nearly 40,00 items. Many of these materials, which range from films to videocassettes to sound recordings and beyond, are rare or unique. Taken together, the collection attests to the presence of a largely unknown history of the twentieth century, where medical media educated and persuaded untold millions of patients and doctors, and documented diseases, innovations, and procedures. This talk will present three case studies that illustrate the range of the NLM ’ s collections — a voyage through the history of human a...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
2018 Kinyoun Lecture - Opioids: Epidemic of our time and impact on infectious disease
Robert R. Redfield, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will deliver the 2018 Joseph J. Kinyoun Memorial Lecture on the intersection between the national opioid crisis and the management of infectious diseases.
Titled, “ Opioids: Epidemic of Our Time and Impact on Infectious Disease, ” Dr. Redfield ’ s talk will explore the impacts of the unprecedented use of opioids in the United States on the management of infectious diseases. While overdose remains the leading cause of death among people who use opioids, this population is also disproportionately affected by viral hepatitis, bac...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Executives faced with crisis need intellectual honesty from all levels
Kirk Lippold, commander of United States Navy (RET), explains how intellectual honesty requires a commitment to sit down with people in the organization to review what happened after a crisis and find a new normal. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Privacy & amp; Security Source Type: video
Sexual & Gender Minority Health Research: (1) Informatics and Health Policy: Building the Evidence to Improve Transgender Health and (2) Reducing Health Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals
The NIH Sexual& Gender Minority Research Office is pleased to announce our inaugural Investigator Award Program. The Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Investigator Award Program was developed to recognize early-stage investigators who have made substantial, outstanding research contributions in areas related to SGM health and who are poised to become future leaders or are already leading the field of SGM health research.
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a board-certified physician anesthesiologist with a background in clinical research, advocacy, and health care policy. He currently is a professor at the Vanderbilt University School ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Clinical Care Commission Advisory Committee Meeting - October 2018
The 2018 National Clinical Care commission Advisory Committee evaluates and provides recommendations on the coordination and leveraging of federal programs related to complex metabolic or autoimmune diseases that result from insulin-related issues and represent a significant disease burden in the United States, including complications due to such diseases.Air date: 10/31/2018 8:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) - September 2018
The National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) advises the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the National Institutes on Aging on its mission. The NACA meets three times a year to consider applications for research and training grants.For more information go tohttps://www.nia.nih.gov/about/nacaAir date: 9/14/2018 8:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Health in Buildings for Today and Tomorrow: Making Connections (Day 2)
Green Building conference
Green buildings are among the fastest growing industries in the world, representing a $260 billion market in the United States in 2015. But while sustainable buildings comprises 20 percent of new construction, these practices lack adoption in certain markets and face the challenge of including best practices in healthy building design. Attendees in the 2018 Health in Buildings Roundtable Conference will engage across sectors and disciplines to develop actionable strategies that incorporate innovative efficiency and design techniques, new building materials, healthy building design, and sustainabil...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop Appropriate Use of Drug Therapies for Osteoporotic Fracture Prevention (Day 2)
About Osteoporotic Fractures
More than 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder that causes bones to become weak and fragile as a result of low bone mass. The condition makes people more susceptible to fractures, which can impair their ability to live independently and even threaten their lives. The social and economic burden of osteoporotic fractures is substantial. Reducing osteoporosis prevalence and hip fracture incidence are among the major objectives of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health& Human Services ’ national health promotion and disease prevention initiativ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop Appropriate Use of Drug Therapies for Osteoporotic Fracture Prevention (Day 1)
About Osteoporotic Fractures
More than 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder that causes bones to become weak and fragile as a result of low bone mass. The condition makes people more susceptible to fractures, which can impair their ability to live independently and even threaten their lives. The social and economic burden of osteoporotic fractures is substantial. Reducing osteoporosis prevalence and hip fracture incidence are among the major objectives of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health& Human Services ’ national health promotion and disease prevention initiativ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Health in Buildings for Today and Tomorrow (Day 1)
Green buildings are among the fastest growing industries in the world, representing a $260 billion market in the United States in 2015. But while sustainable buildings comprises 20 percent of new construction, these practices lack adoption in certain markets and face the challenge of including best practices in healthy building design. Attendees in the 2018 Health in Buildings Roundtable Conference will engage across sectors and disciplines to develop actionable strategies that incorporate innovative efficiency and design techniques, new building materials, healthy building design, and sustainability standards across multi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Advancing population health: five propositions and a research agenda
NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Annual Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture
Population health has emerged as a framework for research and action to improve health and reduce health inequities. For her lecture, Dr. Diez Roux will discuss what a population health approach means, posit five facts about population health and their implications for scientific understanding and policy, and highlight key components of a population health research agenda.
Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of health and the study of how neighborhoods affect health. Her work on neighborhood health effe...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
