Schedule at a Glance

End of Life Care in Cancer Treatment: Research and Practice
Chairs: Deborah Bowen, PhD, Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD, Barry Rosenfeld, PhD

Meditation in Behavioral Medicine: Introduction to Theory, Research and Practice
Moderator: Jean L. Kristeller, PhD

Presenters and Topics:

• Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Therapy: Theory and Practice
  Jean L. Kristeller, PhD
• Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery
  Linda Carlson, PhD
• The Relaxation Response – 35 Years of Research and Practice
  Jeff Dusek, PhD
• Mantram Practice: Evidence from a VA Population
  Jill Bormann, RN, PhD

The evidence base for the use of meditation -based interventions within health care is expanding rapidly, yet many people are unfamiliar with the conceptual basis for these interventions or the range of interventions/techniques available. Evidence currently supports use of these approaches in a number of areas including cancer care, pain management, and obesity. This teaching course is being proposed to provide an overview of the research basis for these approaches, an overview of empirically-based and traditional approaches, the conceptual frameworks within which they can be understood, and fundamentals of treatment.

From Evidence to Practice in Primary Care Settings: Practical Applications of Integration and Interventions in Primary Care
Chair: Jeffrey L. Goodie, PhD, ABPP

Increasingly the importance of integrating behavioral health clinicians who can assist primary care providers target mental and behavioral health problems in primary care settings is being recognized. To effectively provide this assistance, existing protocols for treating mental and behavioral health problems must be modified to work in the fast-paced primary care setting. During this workshop we will discuss the rationale for integrating into primary care settings, discuss practical methods for targeting mental and behavioral health problems in primary care, including depression, panic disorder, insomnia, tobacco dependence, diabetes, and pulmonary disease, and discuss models for being reimbursed for providing integrated care.

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• Seminar 1: Creating Educational Tools: From Concept to Product
• Seminar 2: Implementing Self-Management Support: Lessons from New Health Partnerships
• Seminar 3: Translating Research into Practice: Developing a Best-Practice Program to Treat Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems
• Seminar 4: Using the Statistical Language R to Analyze Item Response Data for Measurement Development
• Seminar 5: Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data: An Applied Introduction
• Seminar 6: Problem-Solving Therapy: Behavioral Medicine Applications
• Seminar 7: Theoretical Approaches to Obesity Prevention in Underserved Youth: A Developmental Perspective

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• Seminar 8: Cancer Information Service Research Consortium (CISRC): A model for translating research into evidence based interventions for cancer patients.
• Seminar 9: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): Using New Theory and Technology to Improve Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Clinical Research
• Seminar 10: Functional Analytic Causal Modeling in Behavioral Medicine
• Seminar 11: Effect Sizes: Everything you wanted to know but weren’t even sure what to ask
• Seminar 12: Medically Unexplained Illness: A Behavioral Approach
• Seminar 13: Secondary Data Analysis of National and State Health Survey Data: Access, Analysis and Funding
• Seminar 14: Cultural Translation of Chronic Disease Interventions

The Opening Reception is a great introduction to the 30th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions. Plan on joining colleagues as SBM celebrates those posters that have received Citation and Meritorious Awards. This poster session will provide attendees with their first opportunity to meet exhibitors as well as network with other attendees. A cash bar and hors d'oeuvres will be provided for your enjoyment.

• New Member Breakfast Meet and Greet
  (organized by the Membership Council)
• Mentoring: Cross Cultural Topics and Implications
  (organized by the Ethnic Minority and Multicultural Health SIG and Student SIG
• Physical Activity SIG Breakfast Roundtable
• Integrated Primary Care SIG Breakfast Meeting
• Women’s Health SIG Breakfast Roundtable and Student Award Presentation
• Clinical Work in Behavioral Medicine Careers
  (organized by the Education Training & Career Development Council)
• Diabetes SIG (NEW!) Roundtable

• Symposium 1: Critically Appraising and Improving the Quality of Meta Analyses in Behavioral Medicine
• Symposium 2: Smoking Sessation and Weight Gain Issues: Evidence to Practice and Policy
• Symposium 3: Challenges of Addressing Health Risk Behaviors in Co-Occurring Major Depression
• Symposium 4: How Does the Clinician’s Recognition of Patient’s Mental Models Affect Health Outcomes?
• Symposium 5: Positive Affect and Health Behavior: Behavioral Pathways and New Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials
• Symposium 6: Dissemination to Implementation to the Uptake of Evidence in Behavioral Medicine: The New Frontier
• Symposium 7: Mindfulness Meditation and Behavioral Medicine
• Symposium 8: Transforming Science: Cyberinfrastructure in Cancer Prevention and Control
• Symposium 9: Facing Cancer Together: His Story, Her Story, and Their Story

Found in Translation: Evidence, Practice and Policy - A Force for Good
Bonnie Spring, PhD, ABPP
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry Behavioral Medicine Director & Co-Program Leader for Cancer Prevention Northwestern University

Nicotine Dependence Treatment:
From Mouse to Man to Medicine
Caryn Lerman, PhD, Mary W. Calkins Professor and Director Tobacco Use Research Center Department of Psychiatry Scientific Director Abramson Cancer Center University of Pennsylvania

This presentation will provide an overview of an interdisciplinary research program which translates basic research on neuroscience, pharmacology, dependence, and behavioral science to improve treatment for nicotine dependence. Following an overview of nicotine dependence treatment, translational research examples in the areas of treatment development and pharmacogenetics will be presented. Novel methodologies for testing medications and identifying mechanisms of efficacy will be discussed. Pharmacogenetics examples include smoking cessation clinical trials and neuroimaging studies.

Why Bother with Evidence-Based Practice?
Gordon Guyatt, BSc MD MSc FRCPC, McMaster University

Historically, when experts untutored in principles of evidence-based health care made recommendations, they commonly disagreed for unclear reasons, their advice sometimes lagged considerably behind the evidence, and sometimes contradicted the evidence. Three principles of evidence-based clinical practice address these problems: i) a hierarchy of evidence ii) decision-making should be based on a summary of all the relevant high quality evidence iii) values and preferences are a key determinant of appropriate decisions

• Data Blitz
  (organized by the Pain SIG)
• Health Decision Making SIG (NEW!) Midday Meeting
• Spirituality and Health SIG Midday Meeting
• Child & Family Health SIG Midday Meeting

More Information Coming Soon!

• Paper Session 1: Emerging Issues for Breast Cancer Survivors
• Paper Session 2: Prevention IS Key: Weight Gain Prevention Research
• Paper Session 3: Biobehavioral Mechanisms in Healthy and Chronic Disease Populations
• Paper Session 4: Translation and Dissemination Research in Health Care and Community Settings
• Paper Session 5: What's Going on 'Down There'? Predictions of Colorectal Screening
• Paper Session 6: Mom's the Word: Pregnancy, Weight, and Health
• Paper Session 7: Feeling the Blues: The Role of Depression in Cardiovascular Disease
• Paper Session 8: Genetics: Testing Acceptability and Influences in Health
• Paper Session 9: Physical Activity, Cognitive Processes, and Quality of Life in Older Adults

• Paper Session 10: What a Pain: Psychosocial Processes and Interventions in Pain Populations
• Paper Session 11: Innovations in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Paper Session 12: Been Around the Block a Few Times? Neighborhood and Environmental Factors in Physical Activity
• Paper Session 13: Changing Lifestyle Behaviors in Minority Populations
• Paper Session 14: Debilitating Effects of Cancer Treatment: Impact on Sex Function, Fatigue and Cognition
• Paper Session 15: Prostate Cancer: Psychosocial Issues from Screening to Survivorship
• Paper Session 16: It's All Fun and Games: Multimedia Approaches to Lifestyle Change
• Paper Session 17: Let's Talk About Sex: Psychosocial Factors Associated with HIV and STI Risk
• Paper Session 18: For God's Sake: Spirituality and Illness

Be sure to join Dr. Bonnie Spring, President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine for a wonderful evening of networking and mingling in a relaxed, yet cutting edge poster session featuring complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Come for the science, stay for the networking!

• Ethnic, Minority, and Multicultural Health SIG Business Meeting
• Behavioral Informatics SIG Annual Meeting
• Publishing 101
  (organized by the Student SIG)
• Evidence Based Behavioral Medicine SIG Breakfast Roundtable
• Spirituality and Health SIG Breakfast Roundtable Discussion
• NIMH Support for Health Behavior Research: Health Behaviors in Mental Disorders and in HIV/AIDS

• Symposium 10: Recent Developments in Decision Making Research : From Basic Questions to Translational Applications
• Symposium 11: "Will the Yanks ever really learn anything from north of the border?": The Canadian Single Payor Perspective on Health Care Delivery and Behavioral Health
• Symposium 12: Health Information Technology: Enabling the Future of Behavioral Informatics
• Symposium 13: Symposium on Physical Activity Interventions: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Outcomes
• Symposium 14: Novel Methods for Addressing Complex Problems in Health: The Use of Simulation Modeling in Tobacco Control Policy
• Symposium 15: Methodological Challenges in Dissemination Research: Moving Chronic Disease Prevention to the Public
• Symposium 16: Innovative Approaches to Obesity Treatment in Rural Communities
• Symposium 17: New, Innovative Applications of Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Life-Threatening Illness
• Symposium 18: Aging and Cancer: Psychological Responses to Diagnosis, Treatment, Recovery, and What Lies Ahead
• Symposium 19: Enhancing Quality of Life and Health in Cancer Survivors: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

• Paper Session 19: Primary and Secondary HIV Risk Prevention
• Paper Session 20: Psychosocial and Biobehavioral Processes in Cardiovascular Disease
• Paper Session 21: Let's Get Digital: Web-based Interventions for Weight Loss and Physical Activity
• Paper Session 22: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me: Skin Cancer Prevention Research
• Paper Session 23: From Bench to Clinic: The Promise of HPV Vaccination
• Paper Session 24: Get Healthy: It's the Law! What Happens When Health Becomes Policy
• Paper Session 25: Innovative Approaches to Physical Activity and Dietary Change
• Paper Session 26: Working with Veterans: Approaches in Primary and Secondary Prevention in the VA
• Paper Session 27: Tapping into the Contribution of Neighborhood Factors to Successful Aging

Building Consumer Demand for Evidence-Based Behavioral Medicine Interventions: Lessons Learned from Tobacco
C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

One of the major contributors to the under-use of science-based behavioral medicine interventions is the lack of strong consumer demand for them. The multi-disciplinary Consumer Demand Roundtable was convened and co-funded by the NIH, CDC, Legacy Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore ways to build demand among smokers for effective tobacco cessation treatments. With input from IDEO, a world leader in consumer product design, the Roundtable identified innovations in research, product design, promotion, and policy with potential to produce breakthroughs the use and population impact of evidence-based smoking cessation products and services. These innovations and the six core principles behind them will be discussed, highlighting implications for other behavioral medicine interventions.

Dee Edington, PhD, University of Michigan

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Depression and Diabetes:
A Potentially Lethal Comorbidity
Wayne Katon, MD, Vice Chair and Director of Division of Health Services and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Medical School Seattle Washington

This lecture will describe in a sample of 4,800 primary care patients with diabetes the high prevalence of comorbid major and minor depression as well as the adverse impact of this cormorbidity on diabetes symptom burden, functioning, diabetes self-care regimens (i.e. diet, exercise, cessation of smoking and taking medications as prescribed), disease control (HbA1c, blood pressure and lipid levels), diabetes complications, mortality and medical costs. Two randomized trials that tested interventions aimed at improving quality of depression care and depression outcomes also will be described. The interventions in these trials found improved quality of depression care and depressive outcomes compared to usual care and a high probability of savings in total medical costs.

• Physical Activity SIG Midday Meeting
• Pain SIG Meeting
• Integrated Primary Care SIG Midday Meeting
• Cancer SIG Mentoring Panel Discussion

• Paper Session 28: Time to Wake Up: From Basic Mechanisms to Psychosocial Interventions in Sleep
• Paper Session 29: Meditate on this: Advances in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Paper Session 30: Barriers to Health and Participation in Ethnic Minorities
• Paper Session 31: Health Literacy, Tailoring Affect and Attitudes: Implications for Interventions
• Paper Session 32: Losing It: Weight Loss Motivation and Maintenance
• Paper Session 33: Up in Smoke: Current Topics in Tobacco Research
• Paper Session 34: Improving Measurement Across Specific Populations
• Paper Session 35: Psychological Co-morbidities of Obesity and Health Risk
• Paper Session 36: Kids on the Move: Physical Activity from Preschool to Highschool

Behavioral Weight Control and Motivation
Delia Smith West, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Our knowledge about the broad range of health consequences associated with obesity has expanded in recent years. In parallel to this growing awareness of obesity co-morbidities, we have seen a rapid increase in the numbers of individuals who are obese. Thus, obesity research and behavioral weight control studies have a clear and prominent place on the frontiers of today's behavioral medicine. The role of motivation in behavioral weight control has received significant recent attention as we attempt to better understand and promote sustained changes in lifestyle behaviors. Motivational aspects associated with weight control will be explored and discussed, with data on various motivational parameters reviewed with respect to weight loss and weight maintenance. In addition, a novel weight maintenance program that seeks to augment motivation has recently been demonstrated effective in a randomized, controlled clinical trial. The presentation will review the conceptual foundations and specific intervention strategies incorporated in this motivationally-focused approach to weight maintenance. Promising future directions for capitalizing on motivational factors within weight control research will be discussed.

The Friday night poster session is a great way to start your evening! Meet up with colleagues in the poster hall, enjoying hors d'oeuvres and drinks from the cash bar as you peruse the posters. This is a great networking opportunity for poster presenters and attendees.

• Child and Family Health SIG Business Meeting
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine SIG Breakfast Roundtable and Networking Session
• NIH Adherence Research Network: A Roundtable Discussion on How to Advance the Science and Practice of Adherence

• Symposium #20: Biobehavioral Mechanisms in Cancer Prevention and Control
• Symposium #21: Case Studies in Teaching Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice Across Health Disciplines

After a great Friday night in Montreal, a relaxing poster session will be just the right pace for meeting attendees. Coffee will be available inside the poster hall for attendees to enjoy while perusing the posters.

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.

• Symposium 22: Health Behaviors in Cancer Survivors: Incorporating Caregivers, Health Care Providers, & the Community
• Symposium 23: Evidence Based Behavioural Medicine: How to Take the Context into Account?
• Symposium 24: Autonomy Support as a Motivational Facilitator in Health Behavior Change
• Symposium 25: Barbershops, Brothels, & Bibleways: Using Community-based Strategies to Build an Evidence Base for Health Behavioral Interventions Among Men of Color.
• Symposium 26: The Bypassing the Blues Trial: Telephone-Delivered Collaborative Care for Post-CABG Depression.; Bypassing the Blues Trial: Telephone-Delivered Collaborative Care for Post-CABG Depression.
• Symposium 27: The Future of Spirituality and Health Research: Presentations from the 2008 Spirituality and Health SIG Early Investigator Award Finalists
• Symposium 28: Mechanisms of Support in the Development and Use of Internet Interventions
• Symposium 29: Addressing Childhood Obesity via Policy Interventions: Arkansas Schools, Parents & Adolescents Respond
• Symposium 30: Multilevel Intervention Strategies to Improve the Cancer Screening Process: Concepts, Designs and Measures

From Disasters to WoW: Understanding & Enabling Networks in 21st Century Organizational Forms
Noshir Contractor, PhD, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University

Recent advances in digital technologies invite consideration of organizing as a process that is accomplished by global, flexible, adaptive, and ad hoc networks that can be created, maintained, dissolved, and reconstituted with remarkable alacrity. This presentation describes a multi-theoretical multilevel (MTML) model of the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving, and reconstituting knowledge and social networks.  Using examples from his research in a wide range of activities such as disaster response, Communities of Practice at Procter & Gamble, public health and massively multiplayer online games (WoW - the World of Warcraft), Contractor will present a visual-analytic framework that can be used to Discover, Diagnose, and Design our knowledge networks in 21st century organizational forms.