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Thirty-First Meeting Agenda—September 12, 2008

National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM)

Location:

Neuroscience Center (NSC) Building
Conference Rooms C & D
6001 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20852

Directions to the Neuroscience Center Building

AGENDA

Closed Session

  
8:30 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 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
10:30 p.m. BREAK

Open Session
11:00 a.m. Call to Order, Council Operating Procedures
Martin Goldrosen, Ph.D.
11:05 a.m. Report from the Director
Josephine Briggs, M.D.
11:35 a.m. Concept Clearance: Translational Tools for CAM Research
Catherine Stoney, Ph.D.
12 noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Botanicals — Their Past, Present and Future
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D.
2:00 p.m. Pre-Concept Discussion: Biological Pipeline
Josephine Briggs, M.D
2:15 p.m. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children, United States, 2007
Richard Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:15 p.m. Concept Clearance: Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Treatment of Chronic Pain
Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
3:45 p.m. Director's Wrap-up
Josephine Briggs, M.D.
4:00 p.m. Public Comment Session
4:15 p.m. ADJOURNMENT
Future Meeting Dates
2009 Council Meetings: February 6, June 5, September 11
2010 Council Meetings: February 5, June 4, September 3

Speakers
  Stephen Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Director
Purdue-UAB Botanicals Research Center for Age-Related Diseases
Director, Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

  Josephine Briggs, M.D.
Director
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

  Martin Goldrosen, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

  Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

  Richard Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

  Catherine Stoney, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland