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VA Interagency Executive Committee on Preclinical Research on Traumatic Brain Injury
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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Not Reported
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NIA
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Colloboration to establish and manage an interagency resource center, funded by the VA Office of Research & Development, to facilitate preclinical research on TBI. The resource center may: Create, disseminate and maintain an online catalogue of preclinical models of TBI organized under human TBI conditions with relevant bibliographies; Establish common data elements to be used in preclinical animal studies of TBI including neurobehavioral assessments, imaging studies, pathological studies and biomarkers; Establish a plan, specifications, and operational model for a preclinical TBI data commons; Bring together investigators working with specific TBI models to refine and standardize procedures to increase rigor and reproducibility of findings; and Leverage public-private partnerships to advance translation to treatment.
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VA National Center for PTSD Expert Scientific Panel
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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Not Reported
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NIMH
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To best serve the National Center's priorities and projects, feedback is sought as needed from national experts in posttraumatic stress disorder and key officials from Veteran Affairs (VA) and non-VA federal departments.
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VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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Not Reported
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NEI
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Research in the multi-faceted Sensory Systems & Communication Disorders program addresses a broad range of rehabilitation research in some of the most common debilitating problems faced by Veterans, impacting their ability to interact with others through hearing, vision and speech.
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VA Suicide Prevention Research Advisory Committee
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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Not Reported
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NIMH
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This committee advises on the development of the suicide prevention research portfolio at the VA.
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VA-Million Veterans Project/NIA-Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) - Genetics
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Research Initiative
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Not Reported
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NIA
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VA's Million Veteran Program (MVP) is a national research program looking at how genes, lifestyle, military experiences, and exposures affect health and wellness in Veterans. The NA Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) has a major collaborative interaction in the planning for joint AD genetics study with the MVP investigators. This effort has been under development since 2019. Regular calls are held with VA Program staff. The group reports at the semi-annual VA-NIA meetings.
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Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA
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NIAID, OD/OSP
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VRBPAC reviews and evaluates data concerning the safety, effectiveness, and appropriate use of vaccines and related biological products which are intended for use in the prevention, treatment, or diagnosis of human diseases, and, as required, any other products for which the Food and Drug Administration has regulatory responsibility.
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Value Set Authority Center (VSAC)
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Resource Development
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CMS, ONC
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NLM
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides an online repository of value sets (code sets from standardized medical vocabularies) that are used for clinical quality measurement in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, also known as “Meaningful Use”. The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) provides downloadable access to all official versions of vocabulary value sets contained in the electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) from CMS and Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data from Health Level Seven International, or HL7. NLM works with CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to publish the eCQM and C-CDA value sets in VSAC for public use in the U.S. Each value set consists of the numerical values (codes) and human-readable names (terms), drawn from standard vocabularies such as SNOMED CT ®, RxNorm, LOINC ®, and ICD-10-CM, which are used to define clinical concepts used in clinical quality measures (e.g., patients with diabetes, clinical visit). NLM, CMS, and ONC work together to provide technical features in VSAC that support the use of eCQM and C-CDA data. http://vsac.nlm.nih.gov
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Veterans Affairs Science and Health Initiative to Combat Infectious and Emerging Life-threatening Diseases
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Other
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CDC
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NIAID
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Advancing rapid detection, therapy and prevention of emerging diseases aimed at improving the quality and safety of health care for Veterans.
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Virology Interest Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA
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NCI, NHLBI, NIAID, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIMH, NINDS
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The Virology Interest Group comprises researchers at NIH and in the local area who are interested in virology. The group organizes activities designed to promote interactions and exchange information.
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Virology Quality Assurance Program
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Other
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CDC
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NIAID
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The Virology Quality Assurance Program (VQA) is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded contract that is designed to provide quality assurance and proficiency testing for virologic-based assays for HIV and other viral pathogens that are conducted in NIAID-supported laboratories performing assays on samples from subjects enrolled in multisite clinical studies. In a partnership with the Center for Disease Control, VQA is currently supporting external quality assurance for virological assays performed through the CDC-supported laboratory in Zimbabwe.
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