Society of Behavioral Medicine
Presents the
30th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions
“Behavioral Medicine: From Evidence to Practice and Policy”
April 22-25, 2009 – Montreal, Canada
A world class meeting in an elegant, world class city = a must-attend event!
• Submit your abstract SOON (no later than September 12)
• 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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Schuchman, MD, a physician and medical columnist.
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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.tourisem-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 12,
2008. Submission procedures at www.sbm.org
Program Subject To Change
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