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R a Still The Second Best Thing About Payday Pilot Program Invites Hispanic . HIGHLIGHTS Cordial Tone Set for New Chair Participants Zerhouni Welcomed, Kirschstein By Constance Burr ,Sufre de transtorno bipolar o de New Director Lauded at 84th ACD Meeting depresi6n7 , Le interesa participar en una Meets Advisors investigaci6n clinical A bilingual pilot By Carla Garnett ust moments after 8:30 a.m. on June 6 and a scant 2½ weeks program is advertising in Spanish, Social Inequalities after his first day on the job, new NIH recruiting people with bipolar disorder or A Barrier to Health director Dr. Elias Zerhouni was for­ major depression for screening and clinical J trials conducted in Spanish at the National mally handed the gavel at the 84th meeting Institute of Mental Health. of rhe advisory committee to the director Diggs Lecture Set, (ACD), which he now chairs as head of the July 15 agency. To strengthen Hispanic participation in "I think we should have a ceremony that research studies, Dr. Carlos Zarate, Jr., chief allows Dr. Zerhouni's previous home of the mood disorders research unit, is Free Summer Film Festival institution to turn the gavel over to our new directing trials with Spanish protocols and chairman," said NIH deputy director Dr. bilingual doctors, nurses, social workers Ruth Kirschstein, who had chaired the and technicians. He is also getting the twice-yearly ACD meetings as acting NIH lntraMall Event word out to the public. Because many in director since 2000. She called on ACD the Hispanic community prefer radio Shows Products member Dr. William Brody, president of D h . ACD programs and advertising in Spanish, radio o h ns H op km. s U111vers1 . .t y, to mtro. d uce r.· 2 er oum at spots and print ads reach a new audience J Zerhouni to the 36-year-old gathering of physicians, researchers, SEE HISPANIC PROGRAM, PAGE 2 NIH'ers Race for lawyers, professors and business executives that assembles on the Cure 2002 M ini-Med School SEE ACD MEETING, PAGE 6 NIH Educates Public on the 'Biosocial' Approach to Public Health Science of Life Farmer Warns of Pathogen: Social Inequalities By Cynthia Delgado By Rich McManus With fears heightened by Sept. 11 events r. Paul Farmer embodies a. number of interesting p_aradoxes and daily news headlines about bioterrorist D that make him a provocatrve speaker and a thorn m the threats, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and conscience of public medicine. Tall, emerging and re­ clean-cut and patrician, with a rapid­ emerging infectious fire, fact-backed speaking style- "Next diseases, the Office slide, please"- that would certainly of Science Education have served him well had he elected a introduced a new career on Wall St., he is as at home in an theme for its Spring overcrowded Siberian prison or the 2002 NIH Mini-Med slums of Haiti or Lima, Peru, as he is in School program: U.S. Department the halls of Brigham and Women's Dangerous Mi­ of Health and Hospital in Boston, where he also crobes: Emerging Human Services practices medicine as a Harvard profes­ and Re-emerging :--lation,11 lns1i111tcs sor. In fact, he says, the people are Mini-med stude11t Infectious Diseases of I lc.tlth sometimes friendlier in impoverished Kellie Campbell and Bioterrorism. rural Haiti than they are in Washington loved the course. The 6- to 8-week June 2.'i, 2002 or Geneva, from which he flew in the night before giving a lecture SEE MINI-MED SCHOOL, PAGE 4 Vol. LIV, No. 13 SEE FARMER. PAGE 8 HISPANIC PROGRAM, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of potential patients. Ads from the mood disorders helping the Hispanic community participate in the program call for volunteers on WACA 1540 AM­ life of the country," said Saavedra. "The trials offer Radio America, a local Hispanic station, and in El Hispanic Americans and Latin American immigrants Pregonero, a weekly newspaper, which together the opportunity to invest in a network of health serve a market of some 400,000 Spanish speakers in care, education, and access to therapies." the metropolitan Washington area. The project is currently recruiting another essential With 80 calls from prospective subjects during the team member, a bilingual clinical studies representa­ first 2 weeks of advertising, the program's voice mail tive tO approach the Hispanic community, invite capacity had to be increased. "The Spanish­ Children with subjects, screen patients and consult with other speaking community is willing to take part because research branches on protocol consent, IRB involve­ ADHD Needed language and cultural barriers have been lowered," ment, bioethics and customer satisfaction. The Pediatric and Zarate said. "It's a "My goal for these studies is tO broaden scientific Developmental matter of trust. People knowledge and increase Hispanic participation," Neuropsychiatry feel we know where they Zarate said. Recruitment ads in English are also Branch, NIMH, are coming from." appearing in the Washington Post, the Gazette and seeks boys and On the air, announcers in fliers in movie theaters and health care facilities. girls 6 to 13 years invite listeners suffering In addition to promoting clinical trials to local of age, diagnosed from mood disorders to audiences, Zarate is aiming for Hispanic representa­ with attention enroll in studies that tion nationwide. He has spoken about the need for deficit hyperactiv­ offer medical and Latino volunteers at the Rocky Mountain College ity disorder psychiatric evaluations, Physician Assistants Program in Billings, Montana; (ADHD),to treatment, and transpor- Ponce Medical School, in Ponce, Puerto Rico; the , tation at no cost. University of Massachusetts, Worcester; and the participate in a Dr. Carlos Zarate, Jr. "C It . C . movement study. onsu ono omum- Office of Mental Health, New York City. This Volunteers should tario," a public forum on health with Dr. Elmer summer he plans to address Latino physicians of have no history of Huerta, and "Informativo Mundial," morning and Puerto Rico, continental U.S., and Latin America in other medical or afternoon newscasts, run the ads on weekdays. Miami, and mental health organizations in Texas. neurological "Calentando La Mariana," a morning drive talk In Census 2000, of 281.4 million residents counted disorders (includ­ show, showcases personalities of Hispanic interest. in the U.S., 35.3 million, or 12.5 percent were ing seizures and In a recent interview with popular host Madeline Hispanic, the nation's largest racial or ethnic hearing problems), Portalatin, Zarate explained symptoms of depres­ minority group. By targeting Spanish speakers in and should not be sion and bipolar disorder, the need to recognize and clinical trials, NIMH is using a strategy that affirms taking any diagnose these illnesses, and various kinds of its commitment to boosting minority participation in prescribed therapy. The benefits of research and treatment help health research. Ill medications. dispel stigma and improve lives across cultures, he Participation explained. Zarate encouraged listeners to call involves neurologi­ NIMH for a voice message in Spanish on how to cal examinations, take part. single and paired­ Two protocols have been translated into Spanish. N I H R f 0 R a These trials are testing new uses for established pulse TMS tests, Published biweekly ar Bcrhesda, Md., b)' the Editorial Operadons and hearing tests. drugs that cause changes in the brain similar to Brdnch, Dh•ision of Public lnformatiou, for the information of Participants w ill be antidepressants. In both studies, PET scans com­ employees of the National Institutes of Health, Deparrment of Health and Human Services. The content is reprintable without compensated for pare brain activity in healthy controls and those permission. Pictures ma)' be available on request. Use of funds for their effort and with mental disorders. printing this periodical has been approved by the director of the Office of Management and Budget through Sept. .30, 2002. time (approxi­ An outgrowth of the H ispanic Research Initiative, chaired by Dr. Juan Saavedra, chief, section on mately 3 hours). NIH Record Office Phone 496-2125 For more informa­ pharmacology, the comprehensive plan to engage Bldg. 31, Rm. 5B41 Fax 402-1485 tion, call Mark Spanish speakers in clinical trials sets the t0ne for Choa, 496-5323. future bilingual projects. The initiative steering Web address committee, comprising Saavedra, Zarate, Dr. http://www.nih.gov/news/NTH-Record/archives.hhn Catherine Roca and Dr. Jose Apud, advises the Editor The NIH Record reserves intramural program and institute director on Richard McManus rhe right to make outreach to the H ispanic community, translation [email protected] cocrections, changes, or and validation of forms and documents, Hispanic deletions in submitted Assistant Editor copy in conformity with patient recruitment for intramural research, and the Carla Garnett the policies of the paper necessity of having bilingual therapists in the [email protected] and HHS. studies. "This effort is part of a larger consideration- U Tl,e Record is rec,•clable as office white paper. Olufunmilayo F. Olopade, associate professor in NCRR Celebrates 40th Anniversary the department of medicine and director of the committee on genetics, Center for Clinical Cancer This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Genetics, University of Chicago Medical Center, National Center for Research Resources. While will deliver the eighth annual John Diggs Lecture, NCRR has undergone several transformations and slight name changes over the years, the sustaining sponsored by the NIH Black Scientists Association. goal has remained the same-providing the research Her lecture title is "Dissec­ resources that enable biomedical discovery. These tion of Cooperating resources extend across Genetic Pathways Involved biomedical research in Aggressive Early Onset · '' ;- I I r disciplines, to all of the Breast Cancer Reveals extramural programs of Mutually Distinct Roles for the NIH institutes, and BRCAl and HER-2/neu enable scientific advances Genes.

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