2009 SCIENTIFIC MEETING -- SPEAKER NOTES

Monday, March 9th     Tuesday, March 10 (A)     Tuesday, March 10 (B)      Wednesday, March 11th

PRESENTATION I:   "Improving Exercise Adherence and Long-Term Maintenance of Weight Loss"  

Dr. John Jakicic, Chair and Professor, Dept. of Health and Physical Activity and the Director, Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center, University of Pittsburgh.   

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PRESENTATION II:   "Genetic Testing: Can it Be a Tool for Behavior Change"  

Dr. Colleen McBride, Chief and Senior Investigator of the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute,  National Institute of Health.

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PRESENTATION III:   "Self-Management Approaches to Chronic Illness Management"  

Dr. Kate Lorig , Professor, Dept. of Medicine, and Director of the Patient Education Research Center, Stanford University

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PRESENTATION I:   "Multi-Level Interventions in Cancer Prevention"  

Dr. Marci Campbell, Professor, Dept. of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cancer Prevention and Control Program Leader at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

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PRESENTATION II:   "Methodological Advances in Identifying Effective Components of Behavior Change Interventions" 

Dr. Steve Belle, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.

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PRESENTATION III:   "Structural Interventions in HIV/AIDS Prevention" 

Dr. Shari Dworkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sociology, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.

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PRESENTATION I:   "Translation Research in Child Injury Prevention: Case Study of Serving Low Income Urban Families"  

Dr. Andrea Gielen, Professor, Dept. of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy.

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PRESENTATION II:   "Redesigning Primary Care Practice to Incorporate Health Behavior Change: Key Lessons from Prescription for Health"  

Dr. Larry A. Green, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Director of the National Program Office for Prescription for Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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PRESENTATION III:   "Improving Adherence in Childhood Diabetes: Integration of Family Management Intervention into Routine Care"

Dr. Tonya Nansel, Investigator in the Prevention Research Branch, National Institute of Child Healthand Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institute of Helath.

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PRESENTATION I:   "Applications of Systems Thinking to Accomplish Lasting Health Behavior Change"  

Dr. Ken Resnicow, Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health.

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PRESENTATION II:   "The Science of Behavior Change: What Has Been Learned from National Initiatives?"

Dr. Marcia Ory, Regents Professor, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Health, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center.

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PRESENTATION III:   "EHealth and the Future of Interactive Technologies to Improve Health Behavior Change"  

Dr. David Ahern, Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and National  Program Director of the Health e-Technologies Initiative, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program office based as the Brigham and  Women's Hospital in Boston.

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