Alliance for Research Progress — February 8, 2013 Meeting » Agenda

Meeting Agenda

February 08, 2013
Rockville, Maryland

Time Event Speaker(s)
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration  
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Welcome and State of the NIMH
Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
Director, NIMH
9:45 – 9:55 a.m. Concept Clearance: Reducing Duration of Untreated Psychosis in the United States  
9:55 – 10:15 a.m. Dialogue Alliance Participants, NIMH Director, and staff
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. The Evolving Role of Patients in the Research and Development Ecosystem
Margaret Anderson, M.S.
Executive Director, FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break  
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Catalyzing Translational Innovation
Christopher Austin, M.D.
Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH
12:00 – 12:15 p.m. Dialogue Alliance Participants, NIMH Director, and staff
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch  
1:15 – 2:00 p.m. Bridging the Great Divide: National Dissemination of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies in the Veterans Health Administration
Bradley Karlin, Ph.D.
National Mental Health Director,
Psychotherapy and Psychogeriatrics Mental Health Services,
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Dialogue Alliance Participants, NIMH Director, and staff
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break  
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Building Political Agenda for Parity in Both Research and Health Reform Implementation
The Honorable Patrick Kennedy
Former U.S. Congressman, Co-founder, One Mind for Research
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Dialogue on Research Priorities Alliance Participants, NIMH Director, and staff