April 3, 2008
Noon - 1:00 pm, Falk Library, Conference Room B, 200 Scaife Hall
Class: "EndNote versus RefWorks: Which should I use?"
Cosponsored with the Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh

April 10, 2008
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 1103 Scaife Hall 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 412-246-5284
“Recent Findings from the Heart and Soul Study”- Mary A. Whooley, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco 

April 11, 2008
Workshop: Sleep Measurement Toolbox 

2007

February 22, 2007
Health Behavior Assessment Workshop-Audio & PowerPoint Slides
Jointly sponsored by PMBC and the Obesity Nutrition Research Center
Speakers:  John Jakicic, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Venditti, Ph.D.
Discussant:  Marsha D. Marcus, Ph.D.

March 23, 2007 ~ Application Deadline
Call for Applications: Mind-Body Clinical Scholars Program  (pdf version of Flyer)
Click here for details about current clinical scholars

March 28, 2007 ~ Workshop registration deadline: March 21, 2007
Workshop: "Writing Qualitatively". 9 am - Noon  (pdf version of Flyer)
Public Lecture:  "The Manifest Behaviors of Suffering" 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm  (pdf version of Flyer)
Events cosponsored by The Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center

June 6-9, 2007 ~ Summer Institute
"Sleeping, Eating & Physical Activity: A Focus on Health Behavior"-Audio & PowerPoint Slides

June 12-13, 2007 ~ Visiting Scholars Program
The Nature of Social Relationships"-Audio & PowerPoint Slides

July 6, 2007 ~ (Deadline)
Call for Pilot Proposal Letters of Intent
*Applicants must be affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh or Carnegie Mellon University.

October 8, 2007 ~ Invited Lecture
"Genomic/Genetic Approaches to Sleep and Its Disorders"-Audio & PowerPoint Slides
Allan I. Pack, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D. Chief, Division of Sleep Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

November 8, 2007
Workshop: “Optimizing Literature Search Strategies for Multidisciplinary Topics”
Cosponsored with the Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh

December 17 and 18, 2007 -Audio & PowerPoint Slides
"Statistics Workshop on the Analysis of Multilevel and Longitudinal Data"
Donald Hedeker, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Workshop sponsored by The Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Teams at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

2006

January 10, 2006
Depression Assessment Workshop

February 16-17, 2006
Visiting Scholars Program on Emotion Regulation-Audio & PowerPoint Slide Show

April 19, 2006
The Science and Epidemiology of Race, Racism & Health  (pdf)
Nancy Krieger, Ph.D.

June 14-17 2006
Summer Institute-Audio & PowerPoint Slide Show

July 10, 2006
Ecological Momentary Assessment Workshop-Audio & PowerPoint Slide Show

October 11, 2006
Sleep Disturbance and Activation of Cellular and Genomic Markers of Inflammation
-PowerPoint Slide Show
Guest Lecturer: Michael R. Irwin, M.D., UCLA

November 7, 2006
Biomarkers of Aging Workshop-Audio & PowerPoint Slide Show
Speakers: Howard Aizenstein, M.D., Ph.D., Anne B. Newman, M.D., M.P.H.,
and Patricia L. Opresko, Ph.D.

December 8, 2006
Short Course on Sleep-Audio & PowerPoint Slide Show
Speakers:  Charles Atwood, M.D., Daniel Buysse, M.D., Martica Hall, Ph.D., 
Christopher P. O'Donnell, Ph.D., and Patrick Strollo, M.D.

2005

January 13, 2005
"A Discussion on the Interface between Depression and Medical Illness"
David J. Kupfer, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

March 17, 2005
"Peer Relationships, Emotional Well-Being, and Behavior of Children with
Chronic Illness and Classroom Comparison Peers"
Robert B. Noll, Ph.D.,  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

April 14, 2005
"The Effects of Sleep Loss on Inflammation and Host Protection in Healthy Volunteers"
Janet Mullington, Ph.D. / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School

May 5, 2005
"Mind-Body Interactions and Health:  Emerging Evidence and Future Directions"
Margaret A. Chesney, Ph.D. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
National Institutes of Health-Audio

May 20, 2005
"A Case Approach to Rating Events and Difficulties in the National Comorbidity Survey 2"
(aka "Down and Dirty with the Data")
Brown Bag Discussion with Elaine Wethington, Ph.D. Cornell University
Power Point Slide-Show

June 30, 2005
Accelerometry and Activity Measurements (pdf file of Power Point presentation)
Presenter: John Jakicic, Ph.D.

August 11, 2005
Multimodal Assessment of Life Stress (pdf file of Power Point presentation)
Presenters: Barbara A. Anderson, Ph.D. & Thomas W. Kamarck, Ph.D.
Click here for References

2004

January 22, 2004
"Empowering Youth to Make Better Decisions for Themselves"
Julie S. Downs, Ph.D. with Discussants:
Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D. & Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

February 27, 2004
Annual Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Poster Session

May 10, 2004
"So You're Feeling Stressed?  New Perspectives on Emotions, Morbidity, and Mortality"
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Co-Sponsored with Department of Psychology, CMU

June 2-5, 2004 Summer Institute Open Lectures
"Ethnicity and Health"
-Frank J. Penedo, Ph.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
"Weight Gain as a Pathway to Physical Illness"
-Lewis H. Kuller, M.D., Dr.P.H., University of Pittsburgh
"Behavioral Cardiology"
-David S. Krantz, Ph.D., University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
"Psychosocial Determinants of Immune Function"
-Christopher L. Coe, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

December 9 & 13, 2004
Heart Rate Variability Workshop
J. Richard Jennings, Ph.D., and Peter J. Gianaros, Ph.D.

2003

January 23, 2003
PMBC Pilot Project Presentations
Minhnoi Wroble, Angela Dougall, Deborah Jones, Michele Levine, & Jennifer Steel

February 14, 2003
Annual Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Poster Session

May 22, 2003
PMBC Pilot Project Presentations
Vladimir Shusterman, Kerry Reynolds, Pete Gianaros, Natalie Hamrick, & Brent Henderson

June 19 & 20, 2003 Summer Institute Open Lectures
"A Toolbox Intervention Approach - LOOK AHEAD"
-Delia S. West, Ph.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
"Interventions for CVD - ENRICHD"
-Kenneth E. Freedland, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
"Hostility Interventions for CVD"
-Karina W. Davidson, Ph.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

September 25, 2003
"Impact of Depression on CVD with a View on Treatment"
Bruce L. Rollman, M.D., M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

October 9, 2003
"Attachment in Bereavement: Continuing vs. Relinquishing Bonds"
Margaret S. Stroebe, Ph.D., Utrecht University

October 23, 2003
"Sweet and Low:  The Relationship between Diabetes and Depression"
Dominque L. Musselman, M.D., M.S., Emory University School of Medicine

November 13, 2003
"Causation and Prediction"
Richard P. Scheines, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

2002

January 17, 2002
"Rhythm and Blues: Statistical Models for Biological Rhythm Data"
Joel Greenhouse, Ph.D. & Howard Seltman, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

February 22, 2002
Annual Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine Poster Session

March 28, 2002
"What Can Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Tell Us About
Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Disease Risk?
Thomas W. Kamarck, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

April 19, 2002
"Cortisol:  A Significant Link Between Mind and Body?"
Prof. Dr. Clemens Kirschbaum, Institute of Physiological Psychology II,
University of Duesseldorf, Germany

June 12-15, 2002
Summer Institute Open Lectures

September 12, 2002
"Factors Associated with Elevated Nighttime Blood Pressure and Increased Risk of
Cardiovascular Disease in Youth"
Dawn K. Wilson, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor,
Prevention Research Center, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health,
University of South Carolina

November 7, 2002
"Reflections on Sleep and Blood Pressure"
Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
University of California, San Diego

November 21, 2002
"Coping and Stress Reactivity: A Dual Process Model of Responses to Stress"
Bruce E. Compas, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

2001

January 18, 2001
"Analyzing Longitudinal Data with Mixture Models: A Trajectory Approach"
Bobby L. Jones, M.S., Research Fellow and Instructor, Department of Statistics,
Carnegie Mellon University

February 8, 2001
"Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH"
Raynard S. Kington, M.D.,Ph.D., Associate Director of NIH for Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research

March 15, 2001
"The Social Context of Pain: New Findings and New Directions"
Francis J. Keefe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Anesthesiology, and Psychology, Duke University Medical Center

April 19, 2001
"Central Serotonin as Cause of the Covariation of Blood Pressure,
Reactivity, Obesity, and Dyslipidemia"
Matthew F. Muldoon, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

May 24, 2001
"Discussion of the UPMC Health Enhancement Program and
Opportunities for Your Involvement"
Bruce S. Rabin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Psychiatry; Director,
Division of Clinical Immunopathology; and Director, Brain, Behavior and Immunity Center,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

October 18, 2001
"Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis as an Exemplar"
Ken A. Wallston, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

November 6, 2001
"Diary Research: Concerns with Paper Diaries and the Measurement of Traits"
Arthur A. Stone, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
December 13, 2001
"Cerebral blood flow activation patterns in hypertensive individuals"
J. Richard Jennings, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology,
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

2000

February 3, 2000
"Conceptual Framework of REACH (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer Caregiver's Health"
Richard Schulz, Ph.D. & Steven Bell, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

February 17, 2000
"Methodological Issues Related to the Analysis of Center-Wide Questions"
Joel Greenhouse, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

April 6, 2000
"The Center for Complementary Medicine at UPMC-Shadyside: Philosophy and Approaches"
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC-Shadyside

May 18, 2000
"Developing a Measure of Interpretations of Social Situations:
A Potential Link Between Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Reactivity?"
Edith Chen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

June 1, 2000
"Developing a Measure of Interpretations of Social Situations:
A Potential Link Between Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Reactivity?"
Edith Chen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

June 15, 2000
"Chronic Psychological Stress and the Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines"
Gregory E. Miller, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

September 18, 2000
"What Qualities of Relationships Might Be Relevant to Health?"
Margaret Clark, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

October 16, 2000
"Moving Good Science to Good Practice:  An Update on RAND and
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiatives"
Harold Pincus, M.D., Professor and Executive Vice Chairman of Psychiatry,
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

November 2, 2000
"Recent Advances in Blood Pressure Monitoring"
Thomas G. Pickering, M.D., D.Phil., Professor of Medicine and Director,
Integrative and Behavioral Cardiology Program, Zena & Michael Wiener Cardiovascular
Institute, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

November 13, 2000
"Are Hostile Individuals Sensitive to Positive Social Cues During Stress?"
Mary C. Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology,
Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ

December 11, 2000
"Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress in Youth:  Relationships with Race,
Family History of Cardiovascular Disease and Subclinical Disease Markers"
Frank A. Treiber, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Health Behavior,
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

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