Obama's Sci-Tech Advisors To Meet
A federal advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers will meet for the first time under the Obama administration next week (see agenda here). The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will convene Thursday and Friday to set priorities for the year and hear from some administration science and tech all-stars. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren and co-chairs Harold Varmus and Eric Lander will kick off the meeting, which will focus largely on healthcare and energy.
President Obama's Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Department of Health and Human Services National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal and Blumenthal's advisor John Glaser will first discuss health information technology. Then National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Director Elizabeth Nabel and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Director Carolyn Clancy will tackle comparative effectiveness research.
PCAST members will them move on to a discussion of energy and environment with Robert Sussman, senior policy counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency and Shere Abbott, associate director of environment for OSTP. They'll wrap up day one with an address from Energy Secretary Steven Chu. On Friday, Holdren will give an overview of OSTP activities and various PCAST committees will report on economic development; innovation and technology; international security; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; education; healthcare and life sciences; and energy and environment.
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