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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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Staff

Name Title Email
Christine A. Bachrach, PhD Acting Director cbachrach@nih.gov
Ronald P. Abeles, PhD Special Assistant to the Director ronald_abeles@nih.gov
Ann C. Benner Communications Specialist annb@nih.gov
Lynn Bosco, MD, MPH Medical Officer boscol@od.nih.gov
Patricia L. Mabry, PhD Health Science Administrator mabryp@od.nih.gov
Rachel J. Mandal, M.Sc. Program Analyst mandalr@mail.nih.gov
Helen Meissner, ScM, PhD Health Science Administrator meissneh@mail.nih.gov
Janaki Nibhanupudy Secretary janakin@mail.nih.gov
Deborah Olster, PhD Deputy Director olsterd@od.nih.gov
G. Stéphane Philogene, PhD Assistant Director for Policy and Planning philoges@od.nih.gov
Dana M. Sampson, MS, MBA(c) Program Analyst sampsond@od.nih.gov
Sarbajit (Rana) Sinha, M.Sc. Senior Programmer and Information Systems Analyst sarbajits@od.nih.gov
Jennifer B. Urban, PhD SRCD Fellow urbanjb@mail.nih.gov
Kay Wanke, PhD, MPH Health Scientist Administrator wankek@mail.nih.gov


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31 Center Drive
Building 31, Room B1C19
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone: 301.402.1146
Fax: 301.402.1150

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