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PCORI Solicits Feedback on Proposed Research Design Framework

Dear Division 28 Colleagues:

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced an opportunity to submit feedback concerning its proposed framework for assessing the design of research that examines the safety and effectiveness of health interventions. This framework is expected to guide the Institute's future decisions for soliciting and funding comparative effectiveness studies. APA encourages individual psychologists with relevant expertise to submit comments and the deadline is February 17, 2012. Instructions for submitting comments are included in the online Request for Information.

The proposed framework incorporates such factors as internal and external validity, precision, heterogeneity of risks/benefits across subgroups, ethical considerations, time urgency, logistical constraints, and data availability. The Institute seeks comments on the list of factors, suggestions for alternative factors or frameworks, and discussion of how these factors apply in different research domains. Respondents are strongly encouraged to provide examples or case studies demonstrating how designs are selected for particular research questions, including considerations of trade-offs among factors. Relevant research domains listed include behavioral therapies, health promotion programs, and delivery system interventions.

PCORI was established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the health care reform law) as an independent, non-profit organization to support research on how to most effectively prevent, treat, and manage diseases and disorders. Read more about PCORI in APA's Psychological Science Agenda:
·         Behavior change research highlighted at first PCORI board meeting (December 2010)
·         PCORI solicits public input on its research funding priorities (August 2011)
·         PCORI issues first funding announcement (October 2011)

Christine Jamieson | Science Policy Associate
Government Relations Office
Science Directorate
American Psychological Association
750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 336-6182 | Fax: (202) 336-6063
Email: cjamieson@apa.org | www.apa.org

2012-01-11

[DIV28SUPER] Postdoctoral research fellowship positions at the University of Vermont

University of Vermont announces availability of NIDA postdoctoral
research fellowship positions in an internationally recognized center
of excellence on drug abuse. The Human Behavioral Pharmacology
Laboratory, est. in 1986, is a research unit of the Department of
Psychiatry that studies biological, environmental and pharmacological
factors influencing abuse of licit and illicit drugs. Fellows train
in wide range of human-laboratory and treatment-outcome research.

*Openings with Drs. Stacey C. Sigmon or Stephen T. Higgins on lab
studies of psychomotor stimulants and clinical trials on behavioral
treatments for cocaine dependence and smoking-cessation in
opioid-dependent and pregnant smokers.

*2-3 yr. Appointment

*Applicants must have completed doctoral training in psychology or a
related discipline and be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Trainees are selected on the basis of scholastic record and commitment
to drug-abuse research.

*Supported by an NIDA/NIH Institutional Training Award.

*Forward CV, statement of research interests, 3 letters of reference
c/o: Diana Cain, University of Vermont, Dept. of Psychiatry, 1 South
Prospect St. UHC - MS#482, Burlington, VT 05401, Email:
Diana.Cain@uvm.edu

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2012-01-10

[DIV28SUPER] National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

On January 6, NIH posted 3 related items of interest to the scientific community:

– a notice to inform the NIH community of changes underway that will create the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-12-027.html

– a Federal Register notice establishing NCATS: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-01-06/pdf/2012-54.pdf

– a notice to inform the NIH community of changes to NIH administrative grant and application processes due to dissolution of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-12-026.html

2012-01-05

[DIV28SUPER] INNOVATION ADVISORS PROGRAM FACT SHEET

http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp?Counter=4240

Towards methods refinement in health care delivery via Medicare and Medicaid .. Funded limited term participation

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2012-01-04

[DIV28SUPER] NIH Seeks Proposals to Support Pain Management Education in Health Professional Schools

Proposals Sought to Support Pain Management Education in Health Professional Schools

The NIH Pain Consortium is encouraging medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy schools to respond to a new funding opportunity to develop Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs). The National Institute on Drug Abuse is the lead Institute on this effort. On December 30, 2011, a Request for Proposals (RFP) was released by Altarum Institute and Palladian Partners, an Altarum company, on behalf of the NIH Pain Consortium, to develop and disseminate pain management curriculum resources for health care professionals and to provide leadership for change in pain management education. The RFP can be found at: http://www.altarum.org/project-highlights-pain-education .

The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

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2012-01-02

[DIV28SUPER] Postdoctoral Training at the University of Missouri - Columbia

Please forward to suitable candidates.
Thanks and Best Wishes for the New Year,
Ken Sher

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Alcohol and Addiction Research
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Missouri
and the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center

The Department of Psychological Sciences, at the University of Missouri, (MU) has openings for up to THREE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS IN ALCOHOL AND ADDICTIONS RESEARCH. Faculty preceptors include: Lynne Cooper (drinking motives, alcohol and sexual behavior, adolescent risk-taking, personality, diary and longitudinal methodologies), Ian Gizer (genetics of drug and alcohol use disorders, comorbidity, relations between personality and addictive behavior), Tom Piasecki (tobacco dependence and withdrawal, alcohol X tobacco interaction, hangover, ecological momentary assessment), Ken Sher (etiological processes in alcohol use disorders, comorbidity, alcohol and adult development, college student drinking), Wendy Slutske (behavioral genetics of alcoholism, externalizing behavior disorders, pathological gambling), Tim Trull (alcoholism and personality, personality disorder comorbidity), Phil Wood (alcohol use and cognitive development, alcohol use and schooling, quantitative methodology), Denis McCarthy (drinking motives, underage use, drinking and driving, behavioral pharmacogenetics of alcohol), Bruce Bartholow (alcohol and social cognition, alcohol and executive control, individual differences in alcohol sensitivity, social neuroscience), Doug Steinley (application of statistical methods to improvediagnosis, understand the use of substances in social networks, and subtyping addictive behaviors), Dennis Miller (behavioral pharmacology of nicotine and other drugs), and Matt Will (behavioral pharmacology of appetitive behaviorincluding eating and psychoactive substance use) . Postdoctoral research fellows will undertake advanced training in addictions and pursue their ownresearch interests under the supervision of one or more faculty preceptors.MU's addiction training is closely affiliated with the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center (MARC) based at Washington University in St. Louis (PI: Andrew Heath). Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to become involved with MARC research activities in addition to those activities based on the MU campus. Two of the three positions will beinternally funded and international candidates will be considered. The other is funded through an NIH Institutional Training grant and only US citizens andpermanent residents can be considered. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or other doctoral degree relevant to the study of the psychology of addiction. Thesepositions are for up to two years and start date is negotiable.

We will begin reviewing applicants after February 1st, 2012 and those applications received by thatdate will get full consideration.

Send vita, up to 5 representative reprints, a cover letter describing your research interests and training goals, and 3 letters of reference to: Addiction Research Training, c/o Gail Raskin, Dept. of Psychological Sciences, 200 S. 7th Street, University of Missouri,Columbia, MO 65211, rasking@missouri.edu<mailto:rasking@missouri.edu>, 573-882-1682. Inquiries can be made to Ken Sher, 573-882-4279, Email: SherK@missouri.edu<mailto:SherK@missouri.edu>.

Two of these appointments is contingent upon final budgetary approval by the Provost. The University of Missouri does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as disabled veteran, or veteran of Vietnam era.

Kenneth J. Sher, Ph.D.
Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences
University of Missouri
200 South Seventh Street
Columbia, MO 65211
email: sherk@missouri.edu
Web: http://web.missouri.edu/~sherk

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2012-01-12

[DIV28SUPER] APA Awards and Training Programs

[DIV28SUPER] Patient centered outcomes research