§ 300d–61.
(c)
Participating agencies; coordination and collaboration
The Director—
(1)
shall provide for the conduct of activities under the Program by the Directors of the agencies of the National Institutes of Health involved in research with respect to trauma;
(2)
shall ensure that the activities of the Program are coordinated among such agencies; and
(3)
shall, as appropriate, provide for collaboration among such agencies in carrying out such activities.
(d)
Certain activities of Program
The Program shall include—
(1)
studies with respect to all phases of trauma care, including prehospital, resuscitation, surgical intervention, critical care, infection control, wound healing, nutritional care and support, and medical rehabilitation care;
(2)
basic and clinical research regarding the response of the body to trauma and the acute treatment and medical rehabilitation of individuals who are the victims of trauma;
(3)
basic and clinical research regarding trauma care for pediatric and geriatric patients; and
(4)
the authority to make awards of grants or contracts to public or nonprofit private entities for the conduct of basic and applied research regarding traumatic brain injury, which research may include—
(A)
the development of new methods and modalities for the more effective diagnosis, measurement of degree of brain injury, post-injury monitoring and prognostic assessment of head injury for acute, subacute and later phases of care;
(B)
the development, modification and evaluation of therapies that retard, prevent or reverse brain damage after acute head injury, that arrest further deterioration following injury and that provide the restitution of function for individuals with long-term injuries;
(C)
the development of research on a continuum of care from acute care through rehabilitation, designed, to the extent practicable, to integrate rehabilitation and long-term outcome evaluation with acute care research;
(D)
the development of programs that increase the participation of academic centers of excellence in brain injury treatment and rehabilitation research and training; and
(E)
carrying out subparagraphs (A) through (D) with respect to cognitive disorders and neurobehavioral consequences arising from traumatic brain injury, including the development, modification, and evaluation of therapies and programs of rehabilitation toward reaching or restoring normal capabilities in areas such as reading, comprehension, speech, reasoning, and deduction.
(h)
Definitions
For purposes of this section:
(2)
The term “Director” means the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
(3)
The term “trauma” means an injury resulting from exposure to—
(A)
a mechanical force; or
(B)
another extrinsic agent, including an extrinsic agent that is thermal, electrical, chemical, or radioactive.
(4)
The term “traumatic brain injury” means an acquired injury to the brain. Such term does not include brain dysfunction caused by congenital or degenerative disorders, nor birth trauma, but may include brain injuries caused by anoxia due to trauma. The Secretary may revise the definition of such term as the Secretary determines necessary, after consultation with States and other appropriate public or nonprofit private entities.
([July 1, 1944, ch. 373], title XII, § 1261, as added [Pub. L. 103–43, title III, § 303(a)], June 10, 1993, [107 Stat. 151]; amended [Pub. L. 104–166, § 2], July 29, 1996, [110 Stat. 1445]; [Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XIII, § 1303], Oct. 17, 2000, [114 Stat. 1138]; [Pub. L. 110–206, § 5], Apr. 28, 2008, [122 Stat. 716]; [Pub. L. 113–152, § 2(b)], Aug. 8, 2014, [128 Stat. 1825].)