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Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.

258th Meeting of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Open Session Agenda

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
9:30 - 11:50 a.m.

Conference Room C/D/E
Neuroscience Center
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, Maryland 20852

Videocast: https://videocast.nih.gov 

Time Event
9:30a.m.

Call to Order

Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIMH

9:30-10:30a.m.

NIMH Director's Report

Presenter:

Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIMH

Discussion

10:30-11:00a.m.

Protecting Human Subjects in NIMH Funded Research

Presenters:

Anna Ordóñez, M.D., M.A.S.
Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Research, NIMH

Eugene I. Kane III, M.P.H. 
Office of Clinical Research, NIMH

Discussion

11:00-11:25a.m.

Concept Clearances

Presenters:

Michael Freed, Ph.D.
Division of Services and Intervention Research
HEAL Supplements to Improve the Treatment and Management of Common Co-Occurring Conditions and Suicide Risk in People Affected by the Opioid Crisis
   
Michael Freed, Ph.D.
Division of Services and Intervention Research
Optimizing Multi-component Service Delivery Interventions for People with Opioid Use Disorder, Co-occurring Conditions, and/or Suicide Risk (HEAL)

Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D.
NIMH Suicide Team
Assessing Outcomes of Health System Suicide Risk Screening Programs

Ashlee Van’t Veer, Ph.D. (abbreviated)
Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science   
BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)

Greg Farber, Ph.D. (abbreviated)
Office of Technology Development and Coordination
BRAIN Initiative: Standards to Define Experiments Related to the BRAIN Initiative

Discussion

11:25-11:40a.m.

Comments from Retiring Members

Presenters:

Tami D. Benton, M.D.
Psychiatrist-in-Chief
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

John H. Krystal, M.D.
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research
Chair, Professor of Neurobiology
Chief of Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine

Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Division of Genetics and Genomics
Boston Children’s Hospital
Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Discussion

11:40a.m.

Public Comment

11:50a.m.

Adjourn Open Session