Symposium on Addictive & Health Behaviors Research

Sep. 24-25, 2007

Amelia Island Plantation

Program Agenda

Note:  The recommended dress for all events is Business Casual.

Time
Event

Pre-Symposium: Sunday, September 23, 2007
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Registration
 Monday, September 24, 2007
6:45 am - 5:00 pm
Registration / Information Desk Open
7:30 – 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 am
Opening Comments
Chad Werch, PhD
8:45 – 10:00 am
Session I:
"A New and Important Frontier: Food and Addiction"
Kelly D. Brownell, PhD
Yale University and Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Session Chair: Robert M. Weiler, PhD
10:00 – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 – 11:30 am
Session II:
"Improving the Long-term Management of Obesity"
Michael G. Perri, PhD
University of Florida
Session Chair: Steven Ames, PhD
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch Roundtable with Today's Speakers
(seating is limited at speaker tables)
Session Chair: Jill Varnes, PhD 
12:45 – 2:00 pm
Session III:
"Two Approaches to Preventing Smoking Relapse"
Thomas H. Brandon, PhD
University of South Florida and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Session Chair: Steve Pokorny, PhD
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Break
2:15 – 3:30 pm
Session IV:
"What the Marlboro Man Can Teach Us About Tobacco Control"
K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Session Chair: Steven Matson, MD

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Poster room open for set-up

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Reception with Poster Research
Session Chairs: Jiunn-Jye Sheu, PhD & Hui Bian, PhD
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

6:45 am - 5:00 pm
Registration / Information Desk Open
7:30 – 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 am
Session I:
"Advances in School-Based Prevention: Effects on Multiple Health Behaviors"
Gilbert J. Botvin, PhD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Session Chair: Dennis Thombs, PhD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Break
10:00 – 11:15 am
Session II:
"Multiple Risk Behavior Change: What Most Individuals Need"
Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco
Session Chair: Virginia Dodd, PhD
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch Roundtable with Today's Speakers 
(seating is limited at speaker tables)
Session Chairs: Tony Delisle, MS & Alvin Wong, MS
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Session III:
"A Dual-Focus, Dual-Path Model for Health Intervention"
Frederick X. Gibbons, PhD
Iowa State University
Session Chair: Sadie Sanders, PhD
1:45 – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 – 3:15 pm
Session IV:
"Using Social Images in Health Behavior Interventions"
Meg Gerrard, PhD
Iowa State University
Session Chair: Erin Largo-Wight, PhD
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 - 4:45 pm
Session V:
"Self-Change: Processes and Implications for the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors"
Linda Carter Sobell, PhD
Nova Southeastern University
Session Chair: Michele Moore, PhD
4:45 – 5:00 pm
Closing Comments
Chad Werch, PhD
5:00 pm -
Informal Networking

 

 

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