Program Updates

2009 Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions
April 22 - 25, 2009 • Montreal, Quebec • Canada

A world class meeting in an elegant, world class city = a must-attend event!

  • Submit your abstract SOON (no later than September 19)
  • Get your passport, and
  • Book your flight

The Program…

"Behavioral Medicine Unbound: Transdisciplinary, Transformative and Technologically Sophisticated"

Featuring outstanding speakers whose…

  • keen insights invigorate behavioral medicine
  • research shapes and improves practices
  • findings lead the way toward innovations and new research

The Complexities of Chronic Disease
Patients with complex and multiple chronic diseases challenge and tax healthcare systems. Behavioral medicine offers crucial keys to meeting those challenges. Hear Wayne J. Katon, MD, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, present a new approach for treating people who suffer from depression and type 2 diabetes

Tobacco Dependence - of Mice and Men
Caryn Lerman, PhD, director of the Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will share her exciting findings related to ending tobacco dependence in a presentation preliminarily titled "Treating Tobacco Dependence: from Mouse to Man to Medicine."

Work Today and Keep the Doctor Away?
Dee Edington, PhD, professor of Movement Science at the University of Michigan shares how worksite innovation can improve workers' health.

Evidence-based Practice -A Wide Lens Perspective
Increasingly, evidence-based practice is informed by cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc, the internationally renowned physician and professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, who coined the term "evidence-based medicine," will talk about this intriguing process.

E-networks: What Makes Them "Click"
Noshir Contractor, engineer, entrepreneur, and PhD in communications, will share his work on the use of e-network science to map, understand and enable effective networks among business, science, engineering, and public health communities.

Consumers Be Aware
Many consumers do want to lose weight, stop smoking, or cope well with pain and chronic disease but the over-abundance of health information can overwhelm and confuse. All too often, people follow plans based on little or no scientific evidence - and they don't work. Using the mass media and marketing approaches to increase public awareness of and demand for evidence-based practices forms the focus of a lively discussion among panelists Colin Milner, CEO of the International Council on Active Aging; Sumit Majumdar, MD, MPH, a health outcomes researcher at the University of Alberta; and Miriam Shuchman, MD, a physician and medical columnist.

The City - April in Montreal

Any time of the year, Montreal charms visitors with its architecture, top-rated restaurants, chic boutiques, museums, and more. Springtime, however, casts a spell. "Enter the sun, a gentle breeze, long-lost friends, trendy epicureans… and what do you get? A city where bliss reigns. With the first rays of spring it seems like every house and building in Montreal empties of its occupants. The streets are reclaimed, lighting up with thousands of smiling faces, and winter gear gleefully abandoned…The air buzzes with excitement, rebirth, even euphoria. (From www.tourisme-montreal.org)

Eclectic and electric, the city is a study in contrasts, offering something wonderful for everyone.

  • Browse Bold, avant-garde art galleries and the Quartier International - a showcase of modern design, art and architecture - or meander down streets paved with antique shops and such museums as the Centre D'Histoire de Montreal or the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Sample contemporary cuisine - foie gras and iced rhubarb mousse or traditional meat pies and poutins (french fries with the toppings)
  • Stroll through the Botanical Gardens and Mount Royal Park, or dance the night away at Club Balattou or Club Electric
  • Shop the chic, high-fashion boutiques or bargain hunt along Chabenel Street
  • Take the family to the Granby Zoo and Amazoo Water Park or the Montreal Insectarium

See you in Montreal!

Don't forget: the deadline for abstract submission is midnight September 19, 2008. Submission procedures at www.sbm.org

Program Subject To Change