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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Advisory Council 91st Meeting

Speaker: National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)

Date: September 19, 2025 - 12:45 p.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET

Virtual

Federal Register Notice of Meeting

Closed Session

  
10:00 a.m.     This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C., and Section 1009 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1014).  
11:45 a.m.LUNCH BREAK  

Open Session

 
12:45 p.m.Call to Order 
Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.		  
1:00 p.m.National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report     
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.		  
2:00 p.m.  

Concept Updates and Clearance:

The Role of Hormesis in Whole Person Health
Patrick Still, Ph.D.

Interdisciplinary Research Networks To Advance Biomedical Research on Resilience and Health Optimization
Erin Quinlan, Ph.D. and Jennifer Baumgartner, Ph.D. 

  
2:30 p.m.BREAK  
2:40 p.m.

The Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC) Symposium—Closing the Gap Between Science and Clinical Practice for Pain Management 

  • Overview—Peter Murray, Ph.D.
  • Engaging Veterans Seeking Service-Connection Payments in Pain Treatment 
    Marc Rosen, M.D., Steve Martino, Ph.D., and Paul Barnett, Ph.D.
  • The COPES ExTRA Pragmatic Trial: Evidence for Use of Two Forms of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in the VA Health System
    Alicia Heapy, Ph.D. and Diana Higgins, Ph.D.
  • Effectiveness of a Whole Health Team Intervention Versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Usual Care for Chronic Pain Management Among Veterans: The wHOPE Randomized Clinical Trial
    William Becker, M.D. 
  
4:10 p.m.

Intramural Report

  • Overview—David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
  • Introduction to NCCIH’s Intramural Epidemiology Program 
    Richard L. Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  
4:50 p.m.Acknowledgment of Received Public Comments  
5:00 p.m.ADJOURN  

FUTURE MEETINGS: January 23, 2026; May 15, 2026; September 11, 2026; January 22, 2027; May 14, 2027; September 17, 2027

SPEAKERS:

Paul Barnett, Ph.D.
Health Economics
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Palo Alto, California

Jennifer Baumgartner, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

William Becker, M.D.
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.
Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Alicia Heapy, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor 
Department of Psychiatry 
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Diana Higgins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Steve Martino, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Peter Murray, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Richard Nahin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chief
Epidemiology Program
Division of Intramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Erin Quinlan, Ph.D.
Program Director
Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Marc Rosen, M.D. 
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary
National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Patrick Still, Ph.D.
Program Director
Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Wendy J. Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland