Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Office of Medical Applications of Research

Kathleen Edmunds Cyr - Senior Conference Manager

Since its establishment in 1978, the NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) has evaluated biomedical research, communicated findings, served as a resource both within and beyond NIH, and identified and promoted means for effective application of research findings throughout health care delivery. Under the direction of NIH, OMAR delivers the insights and tools of research to the real world of medical practice. AIR has been a partner in the effort almost from the beginning.

Most notably, OMAR, with AIR’s support, has established the Consensus Development Program that has resulted in a distinguished series of internationally known Consensus Development Conferences (CDCs), now numbering 115. OMAR’s dissemination activities for both its Consensus Development Program and other TA programs include formal statements that are routinely published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Through the CDCs, medical technologies are evaluated by specialists, generalists, and other non-Federal health care professionals and consumers in an open forum, with conclusions and recommendations then disseminated to the health care community, policymakers, and the public. Live Webcasts of CDCs have been beamed via satellite around the country and the world.

Kathleen Edmunds Cyr, a Senior Conference Manager at AIR, is the project director. She has more than 15 years experience providing planning and logistical support for major events. AIR has supported 76 CDCs across an 18-year period of service.

In addition to providing OMAR with technical support, Kathleen is responsible for the quality, efficiency, and productivity of services provided by conference staff supporting OMAR. She ensures delivery of high-quality products and services to OMAR.