Third Grantee Meeting
The third Health Maintenance Consortium Grantee meeting will be held in DC on February 7-8 at the Embassy Suites Chevy Chase. Grantee attendance at the two in-person annual meetings is crucial for reviewing progress and generating cross-site. It is a general expectation that at least two persons will attend from each site. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Announcement of Surveys to Come
The various workgroups will be meeting by phone in advance of the February meeting. Three groups (ecology, modality, and adherence) are planning brief survey queries. The HMCRC will be helping to format to make these as user friendly as possible. Will you please let Kerrie Hora know to whom the surveys should go, otherwise we will send out to PIs/Project Directors at each site for response.

 

 

 

 

 

 

General News from the HMCRC

Welcome to two new HMC grantees. We now have 21 projects represented, and with newest additions a bit more west coat representation with Shirley Beresford and Brooke Randell both from the University of Washington. We have posted their study abstracts on the web. Please note that Dr. Beresford is studying,

 

 

“Enhancing Long-Term 5-A-

Day Behavior Change in Worksites”. Additionally Dr. Randell is studying, “Youth Suicide Prevention: Maintaining Long-Term Change”.

 

 

 

 

 

Special points of interest:

· Our web-site has been going through some major changes!  Let us know what you think!  E-Mail us your comments, suggestions, and updated information

From HMCRC:  Action Items!

The Texas A&M University System Health Sciences Center

 

HMCRC December 2004 E-Newsletter

December 2004

Volume 1, Issue 1

Construction of the new SRPH facility in College Station is beginning to progress!

 

See the slide show here!

The Resource Center has been talking with individual workgroup chairs to review past activities and future plans. In early January we will be having an all-Chair conference call to help in planning for the next meeting. At this point there have been a few suggested special panels at the February meeting:

1) A session highlighting some of the different interventions being sponsored by the Modality Workgroup;

 

2) A session reviewing past experiences data sharing across

multi-site projects sponsored by ad hoc data assessment and methods group; and

3) A session highlighting strategies for retaining diverse populations sponsored by the HMCRC and the Adherence group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005. Dr. Abrams' vast areas of expertise include integrating fundamental sciences with translational applications and policy research; addressing issues along the entire wellness-disease continuum; examining health needs and behaviors in a diversity of populations, including the underserved; and crossing lifespan transitions. In his new

 

 

role, Dr. Abrams will lead

David B. Abrams, Ph.D., To Lead Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., announced that David B. Abrams, Ph.D., has been selected as Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). Dr. Abrams is expected to begin

his appointment in January

agency-wide initiatives in behavioral and social sciences

research, and facilitate collaborations across socio-behavioral and biomedical disciplines. The NIH News Release is available online at: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2004/od-09.htm.