FYI from the NHLBI Index
May 2011: Vol. 12, Issue 1
Summaries of Meetings
and Announcements of Upcoming Events
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council February Meeting
Upcoming 2011 Events
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council February Meeting
February 15, 2011
Dr. Susan B. Shurin, Acting Director of the NHLBI, welcomed members to the 241st meeting of the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Advisory Council.
Dr. David Barker, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Southampton, and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon
Heath and Science University, discussed his research on the origins of chronic disease, the long-term effects of childhood compensatory
growth (growth at above-normal rates after a period of retarded growth), and fetal nutrition and placental growth.
Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, Principal Deputy Director, NIH, updated the Council on the activities of the NIH Scientific Management
Review Board (SMRB), established by the NIH Reform Act of 2006 to advise the NIH Director regarding the use of certain organizational authorities.
The SMRB recommended that a new translational medicine and therapeutics Center be established, and that the NIH evaluate the
impact of the new Center on existing programs at the NIH, including the National Center for Research Resources.
The SMRB also recommended the creation of a new Institute focusing on research on substance use, abuse, and addiction that would
integrate relevant research portfolios from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
and other Institutes and Centers.
Dr. Tabak also discussed how the NIH is addressing diversity/health equity issues. The NIH is working to enhance the framework by which
diversity-related programs are implemented. It has broadened the eligibility criteria for its Minority Supplement Program to include individuals
who are disadvantaged due to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or disability, and it continues to promote consistency with these eligibility
criteria in its other diversity programs.
The NIH is also reviewing program data on the diversity of its workforce, and has established a Diversity Task Force to facilitate NIH-wide strategic planning.
Dr. Shurin informed the Council that the search for a new NHLBI Director is continuing.
Dr. Shurin stressed that the NHLBI is working to maintain its funding paylines during this stringent economic period.
At the time of the Council meeting, the NIH was operating on a Continuing Resolution for FY 2011, which allowed the federal government to operate
at budget levels enacted for FY 2010. The FY 2012 President's Budget for NHLBI is not significantly different from FY 2011 Continuing Resolution
levels (1.7 percent increase overall).
The Institute is continuing efforts to minimize adverse effects on grantees during this lengthy period of budgetary constraint. Institute
policy comprises making strategic cuts, but fully funding those applications it selects to award, rather than making across-the-board cuts that hurt all investments.
The Institute continues to look carefully at budget justification, project overlap, and opportunities for alternative support. In
addition, the Institute will limit new initiatives; defer funding of some large projects until later in the year; enhance accountability
by funding few (or no) administrative supplements and by carefully considering performance measures, especially in large projects and clinical
trials; and accept no applications transferred from other Institutes or Centers.
Council members expressed appreciation for the Institute's efforts during this difficult period and offered additional suggestions and comments.
Dr. Carl Roth, Acting Deputy Director of the NHLBI and Associate Director for Scientific Program Operation, presented the Institute's biennial
report on its procedures for, and results of, implementing the NIH policy for inclusion of women and minorities in clinical studies. The biennial
report is mandated by the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993. The Council found the Institute to be in compliance.
Full minutes of Council meetings and summaries of the initiatives are available.
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Upcoming 2011 Events
Date: May 20 - 24, 2011
Location: Kemer, Turkey
Date: May 21, 2011
Location: Cerritos, CA
Date: June 1 - 5, 2011
Location: New Orleans, LA
Date: June 10 - 12, 2011
Location: St. Paul, MN
Date: June 11, 2011
Location: Cleveland, OH
Date: June 15, 2011
Location: Bethesda, MD
Date: July 6 - 9, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Date: July 7 - 9, 2011
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Date: July 7 - 10, 2011
Location: Baltimore, MD
Date: July 8 - 10, 2011
Location:Boston, MA
Date: July 8 - 10, 2011
Location:San Francisco, CA
Date:July 15 - 16, 2011
Location: Atlanta, GA
Date: July 28 - 30, 2011
Location:Rosemont, IL
Date:July 28 - 30, 2011
Location:Rosemont, IL
Date:July 30 - 31, 2011
Location:Hollywood, CA
Date:September 9, 2011
Location:Bethesda, MD
Date:September 14 - 15, 2011
Location:Washington, DC
Date:September 19 - 20, 2011
Location:Denver, CO
Date:September 23 - 25, 2011
Location:Minneapolis, MN
Date:September 27 - October 1, 2011
Location:Memphis, TN
Date:October 1 - 2, 2011
Location:Charlotte, NC
Date: October 13 - 15, 2011
Location:Las Vegas, NV
Last Updated May 9, 2011
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