SBM Announcements

February 20, 2012

Poster sessions are a vital part of the SBM Annual Meeting – some of the most cutting-edge, innovative work is showcased by all of you. At the same time, poster presenters can feel challenged as they work to make sure their research gets good visibility, as many things compete for meeting attendees’ time and attention. By entering the video contest, your research will receive additional visibility. [Read more >>]

February 7, 2012

The SBM 2012 election for SBM Board officers just opened, at http://sbm.execinc.com/edibo/BOD2012. The open positions include President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer and one Member Delegate. The candidate who fills the President-Elect position will serve as the SBM President starting April 2013. The Secretary-Treasurer and Member Delegate will serve for the next three years. [Read more >>]

January 31, 2012

Greetings from the Evidence-Based Behavioral Medicine Special Interest Group (EBBM-SIG)! We hope that you will join us at the SBM Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 11-14, 2012, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Please register now. [Read more >>]

January 25, 2012

The federally funded Prevention and Public Health Fund supports crucial prevention programs throughout the country, and many reflect the aims and mission of SBM. As federal law makers consider potential budget cuts, the Fund could be targeted. It’s important to contact legislators now, according to policy experts, especially legislators serving on the newly formed payroll tax cut conference committee. [Read more >>]

January 18, 2012

The SBM Public Policy Leadership Group published an article in SBM's policy journal: Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy Research. The article, "The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) and public policy advocacy: a call to action" discusses the importance of behavioral medicine presence in public policy initiatives, reviews a brief history of SBM’s involvement in public policy, describes steps SBM is now taking to increase its involvement in health-related public policy, and finally, puts forth a call to action for SBM members to increase their awareness of and become involved in public policy initiatives. [Read more >>]

January 10, 2012

SBM Releases Policy Statement on New Cigarette Warning Labels [Read more >>]

January 9, 2012

New SIG Blog Entry from Women's Health SIG in response to January as the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. [Read more >>]

January 3, 2012

Rapid Communication Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to January 10 [Read more >>]

December 16, 2011

Registration is now open for SBM's 33rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, April 11-14, 2012, in New Orleans, LA. [Read more >>]

December 13, 2011

A press release from the Annals of Behavioral Medicine article "Smoking cessation and quality of life: changes in life satisfaction over three years following a quit attempt" was picked up by several media outlets. [Read more >>]

December 1, 2011

December 2011 SIG Blog, written by the Ethnic Minority and Multicultural Health SIG, focuses on World AIDS Day. [Read more >>]

November 21, 2011

The Special Interest Group (SIG) blog is a tool used to showcase research being done by SBM SIG members, to raise awareness on specific issues, or to address changes in policy or practice related to each SIG. Each SBM SIG will contribute to the SIG blog approximately once per year. [Read more >>]

November 17, 2011

Rapid Communication Abstract submission website is open. [Read more >>]

October 18, 2011

SBM is now accepting membership dues for the 2012 calendar year. [Read more >>]

October 4, 2011

The International Society of Behavioral Medicine publishes the 2011 Fall Edition of their Newsletter. [Read more >>]

September 28, 2011

SBM Statement in Response to Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Proposed Coverage Decision Memorandum for Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity [Read more >>]

September 8, 2011

Membership Council Chair, Brent Van Dorsten, PhD, puts forth a call to action to all SBM members. To keep the society diverse, robust and ever-growing, he encourages all SBM members to follow his lead and personally reach out to 3-4 non-SBM colleagues who would benefit from SBM membership. [Read more >>]

September 1, 2011

SBM endorses a letter from the Alliance for Quality Psychosocial Cancer Care to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which provides comments on PCORI Tier 1 Pilot Projects. [Read more >>]

August 8, 2011

SBM endorses the American Heart Association's scientific statement "New and Emerging Weight Management Strategies for Busy Ambulatory Settings." [Read more >>]

July 14, 2011

The housing and transportation information for the 33rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions has been posted to the SBM Annual Meeting website. [Read more >>]

June 28, 2011

The 2010 Impact Factors were released on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, and Annals of Behavioral Medicine has enjoyed a substantial jump northward, from 3.145 (in 2009) to 3.984 (in 2010). [Read more >>]

June 15, 2011

View the recording of the full press event on the Behavioral Informatics for Health website. In late April thought leaders and researchers in behavioral medicine and informatics gathered at the National Press Club, focused on consumer health IT. The event, Behavioral Informatics for Health was sponsored by the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The thrust was a spotlight on two journals with entire issues devoted to consumer and behavioral informatics: the inaugural issue of Translational Behavioral Medicine and Cyberinfrastructure for Consumer Health, the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM). [Read more >>]

June 1, 2011

Read the full executive summary of the May 2-3 meetings to learn details of the discussions as well as the final recommendations regarding the inclusion of select social and behavioral measures in primary care electronic health records (EHRs). [Read more >>]

May 24, 2011

Continuing Education Credits are now available for social workers, psychologists, physicians, and nurses for the Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice modules. [Read more >>]

March 25, 2011

The Society of Behavioral Medicine is now on Twitter. Follow us @BehavioralMed to receive timely announcements, updates and important information regarding the Society and what's happening in the field of behavioral medicine. [Read more >>]