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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Contact: Marsha Love |
NIH, DOD, and VA Host Two Day Conference on Trauma Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Gender, Race & Other Socioeconomic Factors
As we know from history, health innovations developed in the civilian and military contexts are synergistic; what is learned in each context has relevance to the other and contributes greatly to improved health of all citizens. The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is pleased to collaborate with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DoD/DCoE) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on a two day scientific conference entitled "Trauma Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Gender, Race & Other Socioeconomic Factors."| What: | Conference on Trauma Spectrum Disorders: The Role of Gender, Race, and Other Socioeconomic Factors |
| When: | Wednesday, October 1, 2008 (8 a.m. - 5
p.m.) and Thursday, October 2, 2008 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) |
| Where: | Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), NIH campus, Bethesda, MD |
| Day 1 | |
| 7:00 a.m. | Registration opens |
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Conference Opening and Greetings
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| 8:30 - 9:10 a.m. | Keynote Speaker Brigadier General Loree Sutton |
| 9:15 - 12:15 p.m. | Session I: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) Research as a focus: What is known and what needs
to be learned about deployment-related and civilian posttraumatic
psychological health Co-Chairs: Farris Tuma, Sc.D., MHS, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (Confirmed), and, Terence Keane, PhD., VA Boston Healthcare System, VA National Center for PTSD, Boston University School of Medicine (confirmed) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Working Lunch: Dr. Robert Mays – to introduce Ms. Woodruff Speaker: Lee Woodruff – A personal story: a family's journey through TBI, war, and the health care system (Confirmed) |
| 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Session II: Traumatic Brain Injury
Research: what are the correlates of gender and race on
TBI outcomes and what are the most critical gaps in our
knowledge? Co-Chairs: Ramona Hicks, Ph.D. Col. (Sel) Michael Jaffe, M.D, DVBIC Henry Lew, M.D., Ph.D, Boston VA |
| 4:40 p.m. | Adjournment Remarks by Lt. Col Randon S. Welton, M.D., Military Consultant to the Air Force, Surgeon General for Clinical Psychiatry Vivian Pinn, M.D., Director, ORWH |
| Day 2 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Opening Greetings and Comments Story C. Landis, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, (NINDS) NIH Thomas R, Insel, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health Yvonne Maddox, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH Col. Karl Friedl, M.D., Director, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), U.S. Army Seth Eisen, MD, MSc. Director, VA Health Services Research & Development Service (HSR&D) Joel Kupersmith, MD, Chief Research and Development Officer (CRADO), VA Office of Research and Development (ORD) (Confirmed) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Keynote Speaker HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, ADM Joxel Garcia, M.D. |
| 9:45 a.m. | Session III: Trauma Spectrum Disorders
and Family Functioning Co-Chairs: Lt Col Nate Galbreath, DoD and Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., NICHD (confirmed |
| 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Session IV: Federal Resources for Rehabilitation/Disability Services and Research |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Wrap up/Next Steps Vivian Pinn, M.D., Director, Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH Sonja Batten, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Director, DCoE |
| Info: | This event will address what is known and what needs to be learned about the role of gender, race, and other sociodemographic factors in the identification and treatment of gender and race factors in traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury-related adjustment conditions. Identifying and closing knowledge gaps in these areas is a shared goal of the sponsoring agencies as they relate directly to health and quality of life for civilian, military, and veteran populations as well as their family members. Conference participants will review the best existing science on trauma spectrum disorders related to military deployment such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. In addition to exploring how research can lead to improved care, the conference will help in identifying evidence-based strategies to better assess and treat psychological health issues and traumatic brain injury. During the conference, invited speakers and guests will explore gender and other factors specific to: a) psychological health needs of populations exposed to high stress, traumatic events, and deployment; b) traumatic brain injury (TBI); and c) treatment outcomes. |
For registration and agenda information, please visit: http://www.dcoe.health.mil/events.htm 