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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences

Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.


December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction


Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)


OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team


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Calendar

January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference


February 9, 2009, ­ 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness


July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions


May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health



May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA

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Former Directors of the Office

Dr. Raynard S. Kington

Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, 2000-2003

Dr. Raynard S. Kington served as Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research from 2000-2003. In this capacity, he directed the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research in the Office of the Director. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Kington was Director of the Division of Health Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this capacity he also served as Director of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Prior to coming to NCHS, he was a Senior Scientist in the Health Program at RAND. While at RAND, Dr. Kington was a Co-Director of the Drew/RAND Center on Health and Aging, an National Institute on Aging Exploratory Minority Aging Center. Dr. Kington attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. with distinction and his M.D. He subsequently completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago. He was then appointed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed his M.B.A. with distinction and his Ph.D. with a concentration in Health Policy and Economics at the Wharton School and was awarded a Fontaine Fellowship. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Kington's research has focused on the relationships between race, socioeconomic position, and health status, especially in older populations. His research has included studies of the determinants of health care services utilization; the economic impact of health care expenditures among the elderly; and racial and ethnic differences in the use of long-term care.

Click here for an interview with Dr. Kington, in which he shared his thoughts about the role of OBSSR at NIH and summarized his experience as NIH associate director for behavioral and social sciences research shortly after his arrival in 2000.