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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
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Keynote Speaker ... Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., was officially sworn in on Monday, August 17, 2009 as the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Collins was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 8, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7.
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Dr. Collins, a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, served as Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH from 1993-2008. With Dr. Collins at the helm, the Human Genome Project consistently met projected milestones ahead of schedule and under budget. This remarkable international project culminated in April, 2003, with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book.
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In addition to his achievements as the NHGRI Director, Dr. Collins' own research laboratory has discovered a number of important genes, including those responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease, a familial endocrine cancer syndrome, and most recently, genes for Type 2 diabetes and the gene that causes Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
Dr. Collins has a long-standing interest in the interface between science and faith, and has written about this in The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, 2006), which spent many weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. He is the author of a new book on personalized medicine, The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine (HarperCollins, 2010).
Dr. Collins received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale University, and an M.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to the NIH in 1993, he spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007) and the National Medal of Science (2009). On April 22, 2010, Dr. Collins was a co-recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Dinner/FNINR Awards Presentation/Keynote Address
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Sleeping Room Reservations:
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Call the Omni Shoreham at 202-234-0700 or the toll-free reservation number at 800-THE-OMNI and reference FNINR. The room rate is $239/night. Reservations must be made no later than Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
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Help FNINR meet its mission of providing resources to support nursing research and advance the mission of the NINR. FNINR supports research-based nursing practice by educating nursing professionals and the public about the advances made through nursing research and its benefits to patients, families, the community, and the delivery of health care. In 2004, the video Nurse Scientists: Committed to the Public Trust was produced through the support of Johnson & Johnson and features ten prominent nurse researchers and shows them in action and demonstrates the impact of their research. In 2008, Eli Lilly funded a film focusing on mental health nursing research.
The Friends focuses on effective communication of findings of nurse scientists to inform all clinical stakeholders of the knowledge base that exists for making improvements in quality of care and patient safety in a wide spectrum of clinical practice settings. Financial support is given to the NINR Director's Fund and will be used to develop a variety of communication strategies in collaboration with NINR to inform the clinical communities, as well as the public at large, about the importance of nursing research.
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The NightinGala features awards to distinguished nurse investigators. In recognition of new achievements of integration in health care research and practice, in 2008 FNINR bestowed a new award, the President's Award in addition to the Ada Sue Hinshaw and Pathfinder Awards.
The Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Grant is funded by FNINR in honor of Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, the first permanent Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research. This award is an unrestricted grant to support the work of a promising and accomplished nurse researcher. This grant focuses on the significance of nursing research and the contributions made by nurse scientists that improve health care.
The Pathfinder Award is given by FNINR to acknowledge a nurse researcher whose work has focused on advancing deep understanding of human health and health care, and has been sustained by multiple grants from NINR/NCNR.
The President's Award in 2010 will be an unrestricted grant that supports the work of a nurse researcher that is doing translational research.
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Placement of tables is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Send your registration form TODAY to:
FNINR
47595 Watkins Island Square
Sterling, VA 20165
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To download NightinGala Brochure with Registration Form:
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