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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine holds a workshop entitled Role of Purchasers and Payers in the Clinical Research Enterprise.
AGENDA: The goal of this workshop is to understand how purchasers (employers) and payers (insurers) interact with the various components of the Clinical Research Enterprise and understand what the future vision of the Enterprise should be from their perspective.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Park Hyatt Hotel, 24th and M Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ANTIVIRAL DRUGS ADVISORY COMMITTEE holds a meeting to discuss the approval of biologics license application supplement (BLs), PEG-Intron, (peginterferon alpa-2b) Powder for Injection, Schering Corp., indicated for use alone or in combination with Rebetol (ribavirin, USP), for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in patients with compensated liver disease who have not been previously treated with interferon alpha and are at least 18 years of age.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Holiday Inn, Versailles Ballroom, 8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD.
CONTACT: Tara P. Turner, Pharm. D. 301-827-7001.
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS LECTURE SERIES, CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL MEDICINE, REAT TEACHERS presents a lecture on "A Case of Resistant Hypertension," with Dr. Norman L. Kaplan, Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-496-2563
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION will hold an open commission meeting.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 888-225-5322
WEB ADDRESS: fcc.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: U.S. COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, HELSINKI COMMISSION holds hearings on the state of human rights, democracy and security concerns in Kyrgyzstan. The hearing is the latest in a series of hearings the Commission has held with a focus on human rights and democracy in the Central Asian region.
WHO: The speakers are:
Lynn Pascoe, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, U.S. State Department
Baktibek Obdrisaev, Kyrgyzstan Ambassador to the United States
Dr. Martha Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: 334 Cannon Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ben Anderson, 202-225-1901
WEB ADDRESS:csce.gov
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES presents "A New `Dimension' To DNA Sequence Analysis," with Dr. Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, Director, Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-594-5595
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associates program presents senior scientist at the National Museum of Natural History and editor-in-chief of Animals magazine Don Wilson sharing rarely seen images of animals photographed in their native habitats. He discusses the reasons for the apparently infinite number of species and the principles of classification, as well as major evolutionary developments, animal anatomy, and life cycles. The book Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife, which he co-edited, is available for signing.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 357-3030
WEB ADDRESS:si.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Center for the Book and the Manuscript Division, presents Joanne Freeman, assistant professor of history at Yale University, discussing her new books, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and Alexander Hamilton, Writings.
DATE: December 12, 2001
LOCATION: Montpelier Room, sixth floor of the Madison building, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-707-53221
WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov
