Webinars

Rebecca M. Pasillas, PhD 

Program Officer 

American Psychological Foundation 

Rebecca M. Pasillas is the Program Officer responsible for managing APF's grant, award, fellowship, lecture, and scholarship programs. Prior to joining APF, Rebecca was part of a national program that disseminated and implemented an evidence-based psychosocial intervention across clinical settings within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She oversaw the program’s comprehensive evaluation framework and associated datasets and provided leadership with data-informed insights to make systematic program improvements. Rebecca was also a tenured-track faculty member at a university health sciences center where she established a psychology internship training program as part of an APA-accredited internship consortium and a post-doctoral psychology fellowship program. Rebecca’s professional experiences are broadly focused on dissemination and implementation science, program evaluation, and evidence-based psychosocial interventions for Latinx and for individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness. Rebecca is a licensed psychologist and received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Joanne Elena, PhD, MPH 

Scientific Director, Clinical and Population Sciences Research 

American Cancer Society 

Joanne Elena, PhD, MPH, oversees the Extramural Discovery Science Clinical and Population Sciences program at the American Cancer Society. In this role, she’s responsible for the research program’s development, peer review, and grant management for studies in humans related to the areas of cancer prevention, screening and early detection, cancer care and delivery, treatment, palliative care, and survivorship. 

Research in this program requires data from human populations and may include behavioral research, healthcare delivery, comparative effectiveness research, health outcomes studies, secondary data analysis, implementation science, community based participatory and practice-based research, and health equity research. 

Hannah Lantos, PhD, MPA-ID 

Senior Program Officer, Comparative Effectiveness Research 

PCORI 

Hannah Lantos is a senior program officer in the Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) unit at PCORI.  She currently manages a diverse portfolio of funded studies focused on adolescent health, IDD, and maternal morbidity and mortality.  

She also co-leads the new “Advancing Comparative Effectiveness Research to Promote Health and Prevent Disease” Topic Theme working group, which is focused on identifying evidence gaps and funding in the health promotion and disease prevention space.  In this role, Dr. Lantos identifies and develops priority topics aligned with gaps in the field that can inform patient and clinician or health system decision-making.  Coordinating and integrating care to support patients’ health promotion while also preventing disease is an exciting area to focus on at PCORI.   

After serving in Zambia with the Peace Corps, Dr. Lantos completed her PhD in public health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.  Following her doctorate, Dr. Lantos worked at Child Trends, a non-profit, non-partisan research institute, where she served as a deputy program area director and conducted research on adolescent health and well-being. 

She lives in Maryland with her family and two cats and is excited to get back to pottery as a hobby now that her kids aren’t babies anymore. 

Irina Mindlis, PhD, MPH 

Dr. Irina Mindlis is a clinical health psychologist and faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health of Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, within the Parker Health Group Division of Geriatrics. Her research centers on developing scalable interventions to improve mental health outcomes for older adults with multimorbidity and serious illness in primary care, palliative care, and community settings. At SBM, she chairs the Aging SIG. 

Drew Pickett, PhD, MSEd 

Dr. Drew Pickett is a faculty member at the School of Public Health- Bloomington at Indiana University, where is also holds affiliations with the Irsay Institute for Sociomedical Science Research, Center for Aging Research (IUCAR), and the Center for Health by Design (CHxD). His research focuses on the development of community-based interventions to promote healthy behaviors (e.g., physical activity) among older adults and caregivers, with particular emphasis on health disparity populations. He is an active member of both the Aging & Health Equity SIGs at SBM. 

M.C. Flux, PhD 

M. C. Flux, PhD is an adjunct instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, research consultant, and managing editor for Annals of Behavioral Medicine. He completed a joint PhD in Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology in 2022 and has been increasingly involved in science communication and teaching. His current research focus includes immune mechanisms of novel mental health therapeutics, the human affectome project, and methodology to promote greater gender equity in psychological research. His teaching and communication strategies stive to integrate modern social media communication techniques into instructional content formats. 

Jane Taylor 

Jane is the Product Manager for Journal Publication Services in the Journals Product team at OUP. She is responsible for the team’s strategy and roadmap for peer review, specifically focusing on support for editors and reviewers. Prior to this role, Jane was a Senior Publisher managing a portfolio of OUP owned titles across medicine and science. Jane has previously worked at Wiley and Macmillan and has been working in research publishing for 15 years. 

Linda Trinh, PhD, FSBM 

Linda Trinh is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Trinh's research agenda is focused on the development of evidence-based and theoretically-driven physical activity and sedentary behaviour interventions for cancer control and survivorship. She is currently the Publications Council Chair in the Society of Behavioral Medicine. This council is responsible for disseminating the highest quality scientific information and literature to members, non-member health professionals, and the general public. This council includes oversight of Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Translational Behavioral Medicine, as well as staying informed of latest trends in scientific publishing.