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166th Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Tuesday, May 7, 2024

DHHS, NIH, NIAAA AGENDA 166 th Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 Hybrid Meeting In Person 6700B Rockledge Drive, Conference Rooms A,B,C -- Bethesda, MD 20817 NIH Video Cast https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54694 11:00 AM to 3:30 PM: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (HYBRID) 11:00 AM CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL George Koob, Ph.D...

Advisory Council Meeting May 7, 2024

The 166th Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will meet Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 The event is a Hybrid Meeting In-Person Location: 6700B Rockledge Drive, Conference Rooms A,B,C, in Bethesda, MD 20817 Online through NIH Video Cast: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54694 View the Agenda.

Un nuevo estudio de los NIH revela marcadores genéticos compartidos que subyacen a los trastornos por consumo de sustancias

Los nuevos descubrimientos pueden dar lugar a estrategias de prevención y tratamiento más eficaces para los trastornos por consumo de múltiples sustancias Al examinar los datos genómicos de más de un millón de personas, los científicos han identificado genes comúnmente heredados en todos los trastornos de adicción, sin importar la sustancia que se consuma. Este conjunto de datos -uno de...

In Memoriam: George Fein, Ph.D.

NIAAA and the addiction research community mourn the passing of Dr. George Fein, a distinguished investigator in the field of neurobehavioral research. Dr. Fein was renowned as an innovative researcher who applied neurotechnology, neuroimaging, and behavioral assessments to advance our understanding of the impacts of aging, alcohol and other substance use disorders, and psychiatric disorders on brain structure and function...

Cross-Cutting Translational Research on the interaction of HIV and Alcohol

Title: Cross-Cutting Translational Research on the interaction of HIV and Alcohol Authors: Kendall Bryant, Ph.D., Joe Wang, Ph.D., Division of Metabolism and Health Effects Mechanism: RFA: R01, R21, R34 Purpose: The purpose of this research initiative is to encourage mechanistic studies that explore alcohol’s effects on the gut-liver-brain interactions and their pathological consequences among HIV/AIDS patients that can be translated...

Researchers gain new insight into the development of severe alcohol-associated hepatitis

This article was first published in NIAAA Spectrum Volume 15, Issue 1. First Alcohol misuse can lead to alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH), a form of liver disease with a high short-term mortality rate in severe cases. Currently, no medications have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat AH, and liver transplantation is often required due to liver...

ICCFASD Spring 2023 Public Meeting Agenda

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Agenda 2023 Public Meeting of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) Monday, April 17, 2023, 10:00AM to 4:30PM EDT ONLINE live and archived at NIH VideoCast Meeting URL https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=45706 10:00 am Welcome and Introductions...

ICCFASD 2023 Invited Speakers

2023 PUBLIC MEETING OF THE INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ICCFASD) Friday, April 17, 2023 Special Panel PART I: WHAT IS WORKING IN YOUR COMMUNITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM LIVED EXPERIENCES Moderator: Jan Lutke Jan Lutke was the co-chair of the former National Advisory Committee on FASD to Health Canada, Government of Canada, for five years, appointed by...

April is Alcohol Awareness Month

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an opportunity to update your knowledge about alcohol use disorder (AUD) and the adverse impact of alcohol misuse on health and society. Alcohol-related problems continue to take a heavy toll on individuals, families, and communities. Researchers estimate that each year there are more than 178,000 alcohol-related deaths, making alcohol a leading preventable cause of death...

Alcohol-related deaths, which increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, continued to rise in 2021

Alcohol-related deaths among individuals ages 16 and older, which increased during the first year of the pandemic, continued to increase during the second year of the pandemic, according to new analyses of 2021 mortality data by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) researchers. 1 In a previous study, they reported that alcohol-related death numbers soared 25.5% between 2019...

163rd Meeting of the NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM Tuesday, May 9, 2023

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM AGENDA 163 RD MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2023 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT PM: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (6700 B - ABC ROCKLEDGE DRIVE, BETHESDA MD*, ZOOM; NIH VIDEOCAST Time Activities Presenters...

AGENDA - MEETING OF THE CRAN JOINT ADVISORY COUNCILS - MAY 10, 2023

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AGENDA 11 thJOINT MEETING (10 th CRAN) OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM, NATIONAL CANCER ADVISORY BOARD, AND THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON DRUG ABUSE WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2023 OPEN TO...

In Memoriam - Enoch Gordis, MD

NIAAA and the scientific community mourn the death on April 5th of Enoch Gordis, M.D., who served as the NIAAA director from 1986 to 2001. Dr. Gordis emphasized science as a way of understanding alcohol use disorder (AUD). He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Columbia University in New York City. Trained in internal medicine, Dr. Gordis conducted research...

163rd Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

The 163rd meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will take place on Tuesday May 9, 2023 from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST. The full agenda is available and the event will take place via videocast.
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