[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 8330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3315]


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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 March 6-8, 2012, at the Hilton New 
Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. 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 March 6, the subcommittee on Nursing Research Initiatives will 
convene from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the Career Development Award will 
convene from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On March 7, the Career Development 
Award will reconvene from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and six subcommittees on 
Health Services Research (HSR) (HSR 1--Medical Care and Clinical 
Management; HSR 2--Determinants of Patient Response to Care; HSR 3--
Informatics and Research Methods Development; 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 March 8, eight subcommittees on HSR Collaborative Research 
(HCR) to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence (HCR 1--
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; HCR 2--Substance Use Disorders; HCR 
3--Rehabilitation/Rural; HCR 4--Women's Health; HCR 5--Pain; HCR 6--
Long-Term Care; HCR 7--Diabetes; and HCR 8--Safety Health Information 
Technology) will convene from 8 a.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, Scientific Merit Review Program Manager, Department of 
Veterans Affairs,
    Health Services Research and Development (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: February 8, 2012.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-3315 Filed 2-13-12; 8:45 am]
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