Wellness Workshop

September 25, 2009

Executive Plaza North, Conference Room CDEF
6130 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland

8:00: Registration & Light Refreshments
8:30: Introduction
NCCAM Welcome: Josephine Briggs, M.D.
NHIS NCCAM Supplement Background: Richard Nahin, Ph.D.
Review of August 24, 2009 Teleconference: Ned Culhane

Workshop Goal: to review several measures of psychological, physical, social, and global components of wellness, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and make recommendations on those that best capture the construct.
9:15: Break
9:30: Components of Wellness: Focus on Psychological Measures
Session Chair: Corey L. M. Keyes, Ph.D.
Discussant: Randy Larsen, Ph.D.
11:30: Lunch (on your own)
1:00: Components of Wellness: Focus on Global and Physical Measures
Session Chair: Albert Wu, M.D., MPH
Discussant: Bryce Reeve, Ph.D.
2:30: Break
2:45: Components of Wellness: Focus on Spirituality, Social, and Other Component Measures
Session Chair: Crystal Park, Ph.D.
Discussant: Margaret Chesney, Ph.D.
3:45: Summary of Discussion
Session Chair: Richard Nahin, Ph.D.
4:15: Adjourn

Josephine Briggs, M.D.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Richard Nahin, Ph.D.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Ned Culhane
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Corey L. M. Keyes, Ph.D.
Emory University

Randy Larsen, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis

Albert Wu, M.D., MPH
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Bryce Reeve, Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Crystal Park, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut

Margaret Chesney, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine