Meetings: Health Care Policy and Research Special Emphasis Panel

Federal Register: May 26, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 99)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Notice of Meeting

In accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee

Act (5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), announcement is made of a Health Care

Policy and Research Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) meeting.

A Special Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in fields related to health care research who are invited by the Agency for Healthcare

Research and Quality (AHRQ), and agree to be available, to conduct on an as needed basis, scientific reviews of applications for AHRQ support. Individual members of the Panel do not attend regularly- scheduled meetings and do not serve for fixed terms or a long period of time. Rather, they are asked to participate in particular review meetings which require their type of expertise.

Substantial segments of the upcoming SEP meeting listed below will be closed to the public in accordance with the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, section 10(d) of 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2 and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant applications for the Accelerating Development of

Methods for the Study of Complex Patients (R21) applications are to be reviewed and discussed at this meeting. These discussions are likely to reveal personal information concerning individuals associated with the applications. This information is exempt from mandatory disclosure under the above-cited statutes.

SEP Meeting on: Accelerating Development of Methods for the

Study of Complex Patients (R21).

Date: June 23, 2009 (Open on June 23 from 1 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. and closed for the remainder of the meeting).

Place: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, John

Eisenberg Building, Conference Center, Rockville, Maryland 20850.

Contact Person: Anyone wishing to obtain a roster of members, agenda or minutes of the nonconfidential portions of this meeting should contact Mrs. Bonnie Campbell, Committee Management Officer,

Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations,

AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Room 2038, Rockville, Maryland 20850,

Telephone (301) 427-1554.

Agenda items for this meeting are subject to change as priorities dictate.

Dated: May 15, 2009.

Carolyn M. Clancy,

Director.

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