The global job announcements for the Program Officer (Health Scientist Administrator) positions at NIA opened on usajobs.gov on May 20th and will close on Wednesday, May 29th.
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Merit Promotion (Open to Status Candidates)
Seeking Postdoctoral Applicants:
T32 Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) Postdoctoral Training Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago
The program objective is to provide postdoctoral fellows who aspire to be both independent investigators and team scientists in lifestyle medicine the opportunity to develop skills in prevention and control of cardiovascular and respiratory chronic conditions translational research.
Fellows can focus their research and skill developments in either of these cores of central interest:
On May 8, 2019, Dr. Donald Edmondson from the SOBC Resource and Coordinating Center presented during the NIA’s Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) webinar.
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Click here to view a recording of Dr. Michael Otto’s SOBC Grand Rounds presentation.
Date: Apr 26, 2019 1:00 PM in Eastern Time
Abstract: There are multiple effective interventions for alcohol and other substance use disorders, however, effect sizes versus control conditions tend to be small. For example, our work has found mindfulness-based interventions to be more efficacious and effective than “gold standard” treatments (cognitive behavioral treatment, 12-step approaches) in the treatment of substance use disorder with small effect sizes. The current presentation will discuss the development and dissemination of mindfulness-based interventions and recent attempts to identify which individuals are most likely to respond best to mindfulness-based interventions based on different phenotypic profiles. The presentation will also highlight similar research in the area of medications for alcohol use disorder and how methodological approaches can be used to phenotype individuals to pursue precision medicine hypotheses. Future directions that include rigorous tests of precision medicine hypotheses and adaptive designs will also be discussed.
Katie Witkiewitz is a Regents’ Professor of Psychology and Scientist at the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions at the University of New Mexico. She has studied mindfulness-based interventions for substance use disorder since 2001. Dr. Witkiewitz also has expertise in quantitative methods and is interested in how the methodology can inform precision medicine for alcohol and other substance use disorders.
Register here.
On December 6, 2018, Dr. Donald Edmondson presented at the Research Centers Collaborative Network’s (RCCN) Achieving and Sustaining Behavior Change to Benefit Older Adults Workshop on the Science of Behavior Change Consortium.
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Michael W. Otto, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Senior Fellow in the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy at Boston University. He has had a major career focus on developing and validating new psychosocial treatments, with a focus on treatment refractory populations including those with anxiety, bipolar, and substance use disorders. His work includes a translational research agenda investigating brain-behavior relationships in therapeutic learning, including the use of novel strategies to improve the consolidation of therapeutic learning. Dr. Otto’s focus on hard-to-treat conditions and principles underlying behavior-change failures led him to an additional focus on health-behavior promotion, including investigations of addictive behaviors, medication adherence, sleep, and exercise. Across these behaviors, he has been concerned with cognitive, attention, and affective factors that derail adaptive behaviors. Dr. Otto has published over 400 articles and over 20 books spanning his research interests, and he Dr. Otto was identified as a “top producer” in the clinical empirical literature, an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and winner of the 2019 Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology award from APA Division 12. His past leadership positions include serving as President of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and President of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association.
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Click here to view a recording of Dr. Linda Collins’ SOBC Grand Rounds presentation.
Dr. Larry Hawk, University of Buffalo will be leading the first I2I online seminar (http://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/faculty/faculty-directory/hawk.html) on February 28 from 1 – 2 pm ET. The seminar is entitled “Applying the Ideas to Interventions Framework to Translational Science Questions (and Vice Versa).”
To learn more about the seminar, and to register, please follow this link
Ideas to interventions (I2I) is a new community, formed in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The I2I community is a first step toward achieving the goal of building and nurturing a network of researchers who are interested in “early-phase behavioral translation research,” – the translation of novel ideas and approaches from basic behavioral and social sciences research into new strategies to address pressing clinical or public health problems. The primary objective is to broaden, deepen and build new connections among individuals interested and engaged in developing new and potentially more effective approaches to behavioral health problems, including researchers, clinicians, patients and the public.
This website (https://i2ihub.org/) will host information for members, and potential members, to learn more about each other’s work.
