National Alzheimer’S Projection Act, Spotter Or Psyche To The Begin Advisory Council Meeting
You tin give the axe spotter or head to the newly formed Advisory Council on Alzheimer's every bit they hash out the initial excogitation to bear out the National Alzheimer's Project Act.
The start Advisory Council on Alzheimer's coming together is fix for tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
The Advisory Council consists of at to the lowest degree 22 members as well as volition run across quarterly to hash out the efficacy of authorities programs targeting the needs of individuals as well as caregivers coping Alzheimer's Disease as well as Related Dementia's (ADRD).
The Advisory Council volition supply comments on the National Plan for ADRD that volition live on developed yesteryear U.S. Department of Health as well as Human Services (HHS) every bit they bear out the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA).
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The commission coming together begins at 9:30 a.m. as well as continues until four p.m. as well as its agenda includes fourth dimension for world comments at the terminate of the day.
You tin give the axe spotter a Webcast here. The page describes what you lot involve to exercise to larn in. This is the password NAPA2011.
You tin give the axe too listen inward on your telephone. This is the lay out to call. 1-888-995-9570. Once connected come inward this player passcode 1781361.
You tin give the axe email your comments as well as suggestions to NAPA@hhs.gov.
Or you lot tin give the axe write to:
Helen Lamont, Ph.D.
H.H.S. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning as well as Evaluation
Room 424E, Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington DC 20201
The next people accept been invited to serve every bit non-federal Advisory Council members:
Ronald Petersen, Ph.D., M.D. -- Chair (Biography)
Anita Albright, M.A. (Biography)
Laurel Coleman, M.D., FACP (Biography)
Eric Hall (Biography)
David Hoffman, M.Ed. (Biography)
Harry Johns (Biography)
Jennifer Manly (Biography)
Helen Matheny (Biography)
David Hyde Pierce (Biography)
Laura Trejo (Biography)
George Vradenburg (Biography)
Geraldine Woolfolk (Biography)
The next people volition stand upward for federal agencies:
Department of Health as well as Human Services
Lynda Anderson, Ph.D., Director, Healthy Aging Program, Centers for Disease Control as well as Prevention
Regina Benjamin, M.D., Surgeon General, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Bruce Finke, M.D., Elder Care Consultant, Indian Health Service
Victor Freeman, M.D., M.P.P., Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Health Information, Technology as well as Quality, Health Resources as well as Services Administration
Richard Hodes, M.D., Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
Russell Katz, M.D., Director, Division of Neurology Products, Food as well as Drug Administration
Donald B. Moulds, Ph.D., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning as well as Evaluation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning as well as Evaluation
Cindy Padilla, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration on Aging
Anand Parekh, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Science as well as Medicine), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse as well as Mental Health Services Administration
William Shrank, M.D., M.S.H.S., Rapid-Cycle Evaluation Group Director, Center for Medicare as well as Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare as well as Medicaid Services
William Spector, Ph.D., Senior Social Scientist, Center for Delivery, Organization, as well as Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research as well as Quality
Department of Defense
Colonel Brian K. Unwin, MC, USA, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
National Science Foundation
Amber L. Story, Ph.D., Deputy Division Director, Division of Behavioral as well as Cognitive Sciences
Veterans Administration
James F. Burris, M.D., Chief Consultant, Geriatrics as well as Extended Care
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The National Alzheimer's Project Act - Establishes inward the Office of the Secretary of Health as well as Human Services (HHS) the Office of the National Alzheimer's Project to:
(1) accelerate the evolution of treatments that would prevent, halt, or contrary the course of report of Alzheimer's;
(2) exercise as well as keep an integrated national excogitation to overcome Alzheimer's;
(3) assist to coordinate the wellness tending as well as handling of citizens alongside Alzheimer's;
(4) ensure the inclusion of ethnic as well as racial populations that are at higher opportunity for Alzheimer's or that are to the lowest degree probable to have tending inward clinical, research, as well as service efforts alongside the run of decreasing wellness disparities; (5) coordinate alongside international bodies to integrate as well as inform the struggle against Alzheimer's globally;
as well as (6) supply data as well as coordination of Alzheimer's enquiry as well as services across all federal agencies. Sets forth the duties of the Director of the Office, including to utilisation discretionary ascendance to evaluate all federal programs concerning Alzheimer's. Establishes inward the Office an Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research as well as Treatment.
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