September 7, 2018

On the 15th anniversary of the founding of NHGRI’s Social and Behavioral Research Branch, one of SBRB’s first postdoctoral fellows—Dr. Saskia Sanderson, who arrived in 2007—returned to a kind of hero’s welcome recently when she explored the psychological impact of learning one’s personal genetic information during a talk in Lipsett Amphitheater.

More than 1,000 students presented during 4 2-hour sessions throughout the event. They explained their research to their peers and other members of the NIH community.

As surprising as it may be, given the size and complexity of the system, health care in the U.S. military has been a true innovator over the past decade in caring for chronic pain and the health problems often associated with it—such as trauma, mood disorders, substance use disorders and sleep problems.