Engaging the Wisdom of Older Veterans to Enhance VA Healthcare, Research, and Services.

Background: Stakeholder engagement helps ensure that research is relevant, clinical innovations are responsive, and healthcare services are patient-centered.

Objective: Establish and sustain a Veteran engagement board involving older Veterans and caregivers to provide input on aging-related research and clinical demonstration projects.

Design And Participants: The Older Veteran Engagement Team (OVET)-a group of eight Veterans and one caregiver who range in age from 62 to 92-was formed in November 2017 and has met monthly since January 2018.

Hydrogen gas formation from the photolysis of rhenium hydrides - mechanistic and computational studies.

The photolysis of 4,4'-disubstituted, 2,2'-bipyridine fac-Re(bpy)(CO)H derivatives produces stoichiometric H gas. The rate of production varies greatly depending on the electronic nature of the disubstituted bipyridine (bpy) with halogenated substituents increasing the rate. Isotope labeling studies along with B3LYP geometry optimization DFT modeling studies indicate a mechanism involving a Re-H-Re bridging complex that leads to a dimeric Re-Re(η-H) state prior to dissociating H gas.

Using technology to teach technology.

As staff development professionals, our goal is to provide cost-effective learning opportunities that meet the objectives of the learner, the program, and the organization. The decision to use instructional technology is based on cost, time, and outcomes. This article describes one organization's use of an inexpensive and versatile software application to develop Web-based tutorials to educate and train clinical staff on a new clinical information system.