What are some of the scientific advances that have come out of the NINR in these 20 years?
Grady: We’re especially proud of several advances that we’ve made, primarily because they are advances in making life better for hard-to-reach populations such as the elderly, children, vulnerable populations. Some really good examples of those include the addition of coping skills training for teenagers with diabetes, which enables them to better manage their diabetic condition and yet live normal, healthy lives as teenagers. We have tested a program successfully with inner city African-American males — a hard-to-reach population, which has resulted in reducing hypertension in that group, which is preferentially predisposed to developing hypertension. We have also tested a program which is a clinical trial with the elderly who have heart failure. This is one of the most difficult-to-reach groups because the highest rate of re-hospitalization in the elderly tends to be for heart failure or issues related to it. And this program has resulted in a decrease in re-hospitalization for the e
