[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 18, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 42365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17376]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit
Review Board, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that various subcommittees
of the Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific
Merit Review Board will meet on August 28-30, 2012, at the Boston Omni
Parker House, 60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Each
subcommittee meeting of the Board will be open to the public the first
day for approximately one half-hour from 8 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. to
cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the
program. The remaining portion of the meetings will be closed. The
closed portion of each meeting will involve discussion, examination,
reference to, and oral review of the intramural research proposals and
critiques.
The purpose of the Board is to review research and development
applications involving the measurement and evaluation of health care
services, the testing of new methods of health care delivery and
management, and nursing research. Applications are reviewed for
scientific and technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding are
submitted to the Chief Research and Development Officer.
On August 28, the following subcommittees will convene: Nursing
Research Initiatives from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Health Services Research
(HSR)--8 Research Best Practices from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.;
Collaborative Research (HCR) to Enhance and Advance Transformation and
Excellence, HCR 0--Quality from 8 a.m. to 12 noon; and HCR 1--
Infectious Disease from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Career Development Award
Review Group will convene from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On August 29, the
Career Development Award Review Group will reconvene from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m.; and six subcommittees on Health Services Research (HSR 1--Medical
Care and Clinical Management; HSR 2--Patient and Special Population
Determinants of Health and Care; HSR 3--Methods and Modeling for
Research, Informatics, and Surveillance; HSR 4--Mental and Behavioral
Health; HSR 5--Health Care System Organization and Delivery, and HSR
6--Post-acute and Long-term Care) will convene from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. On
August 30, four subcommittees on Collaborative Research (HCR) to
Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence (HCR 2--Prevention;
HCR 3--Analytics; HCR 4--Models of Care; and HCR 5--Traumatic Brain
Injury) will convene from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and four subcommittees
(HCR 6--Patient Aligned Care Teams; HCR 7--Natural Language Processing;
HCR 8--Access; and HCR 9--Transitions) will convene from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m.
During the closed portion of each meeting, discussion and
recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting
the studies (the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), as well as research
information (the premature disclosure of which would likely compromise
significantly the implementation of proposed agency action regarding
such research projects). As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law
92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409, closing portions of each
meeting is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
Those who plan to attend the open sessions should contact Kristy
Benton-Grover, Program Manager, Scientific Merit Review Board,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and
Development Service (10P9H), 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20420, or by email at [email protected], at least 5 days
before the meeting. For further information, please call Mrs. Benton-
Grover at (202) 443-5728.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Dated: July 12, 2012.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-17376 Filed 7-17-12; 8:45 am]
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