Selected Faculty Achievements
2003 - 2005

Beth Bock, PhD

• Member, NIH Study Section, Social Sciences and Population Studies, Center for Scientific Review, 2003 - Present

• Associate Editor, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation,  2001 - Present.

Belinda, Borrelli, PhD

• Associate Editor, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004 - Present.

• NIH Study Section Member-RPHB-2, 2002 - Present.

• Invited Presentation:  Strategies for motivating health behavior change:  Clinical and research applications. Grand Rounds, Boston Medical Center. December, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Motivating your allergy patients to follow your recommendations. Pennsylvania Allergy and Asthma Association, 57th Annual Meeting, Hershey, PA. June, 2005.

• Invited Presentation: The role of motivational interviewing to help guide favorable asthma management actions. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 61^st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. March, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Motivational strategies to promote medication adherence. Stop Atherosclerosis in Native Diabetics Study (SANDS), Annual Meeting, Rapid City, South Dakota. September, 2004.

• Invited Presentation:  Clinical strategies for assessing and enhancing motivation for patient adherence.  Innovations and Best Practices in Patient Adherence, Washington, DC. April, 2004.

• Invited Presentation:  Translating evidence-based smoking cessation strategies into community practice.  NIDA Symposium at National Conference on Tobacco or Health. December, 2003.

• Invited Presentation:  Motivating the parents of kids with asthma to quit smoking.  Cornell Medical Center, NY, NY. November, 2003.

• Invited Presentation:  New channels for smoking cessation intervention:  Translating clinical theories into public health contexts.  Grand Rounds, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY. October, 2003.

Judith DePue, EdD, MPH

• Teaching Recognition Award for Clinical Faculty, Brown Medical School, May,  2005.

 Brian Hitsman, PhD

• Invited Member, National Institute on Mental Health Workgroup on Tobacco Use and Cessation in Psychiatric Disorders, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Depression, depressive symptoms, and smoking cessation. Neuroscience Center, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD. September, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Serotonin, nicotine dependence, and depression. Psychopharmacology Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, England. July, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Serotonergic involvement in nicotine dependence.  Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Providence, RI. February, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  The future of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Brown Pulmonary Research Seminar, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. March, 2004.

Elizabeth Lloyd Richardson, PhD

• Invited Presentation:  Smoking experimentation, progression and cessation among college students: Research findings to inform development of smoking cessation interventions.  Second National Collegiate Tobacco Symposium. May, 2003.

Bess Marcus, PhD

• Invited Presentation: Physical activity interventions.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of South Carolina Prevention Center Eight Day Course on Physical Activity and Public Health, Hilton Head, South Carolina. September, 2005

• Person of the Year, Active Living by Design, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2004.

• Faculty Mentoring Award, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Exercise and Smoking Cessation in Women. International symposium promoting physical activity as an aid for smoking cessation, Swiss Federal Office for Public Health and the University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. October, 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Physical activity promotion via mediated communication channels.  Annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association.  October, 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Physical activity interventions: Non-face-to-face approaches. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of South Carolina Prevention Center Eight Day Course on Physical Activity and Public Health, Park City, Utah. September, 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Using innovative delivery channels to reach the inactive.  American College of Sports Medicine's 8^th Health & Fitness Summit and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN. April, 2004.       

• Invited Presentation: Physical activity interventions: Targeting delivery channels.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of South Carolina Prevention Center Eight Day Course on Physical Activity and Public Health, Hilton Head, South Carolina. September, 2003.

Jeanne McCaffery, PhD

• Member, NHLBI Working Group on Behavior Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, 2005.

• Invited Presentation: Study design: Are the classic twin, sibling, and family studies still useful in the era of molecular genetics and how can molecular genetics be incorporated in twin studies? NHLBI Working Group on Behavior Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease, Bethesda, MD. 2005. 

• Invited Presentation: Genetic comorbidity and the metabolic syndrome.  Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, Wheeling, WV.  2005.

• Chair, Genetic Epidemiology Workshop, Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2004.

• Chair, Genetic Epidemiology Workshop, American Psychosomatic Society Conference, 2004.

• Invited Presentation:  Genetics in the psychophysiological laboratory.  Workshop session presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research conference in Sante Fe, NM. 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Genetics of psychosomatic traits.  American Psychosomatic Society conference in Orlando, FL. 2004. 

Kate Morrow, PhD

• Invited Presentation: Vaginal microbicides: How did we get here and where are we going? National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA. July, 2003.

Melissa Napolitano, PhD

• Member, American College of Sports Medicine Strategic Health Initiative on Behavioral Strategies, 2003-2005.

• Member Expert Panel, "Go Red for Women" Event, American Heart Association and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 2005.

• Editorial Board, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2004.

• Member of NIH/NIDDK "Translational Research in Diabetes" Study Section, Bethesda, MD, November 22, 2004.

• Invited Presentation:  Physical activity and public health research training seminar.  CDC/University of South Carolina, Park City, UT. September 14-22, 2004.

Justin Nash, PhD

• Chair, Education, Training and Career Development Council, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2002-2006.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2005 - present.

• Secretary, Behavioral Science Interest Group, American Headache Society, 2003-2005.

• Member, Program Committee, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2005, 2004.

• Member, NCI Transdisciplinary Conference Advisory Team, 2005.

• Leader, National TTURCs Career Development Workgroup, 2005.

• Member, Behavioral Clinical Trials Guideline Committee, American Headache Society, 2004.

Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA

• Citation Award for Meritorious Abstract: Modeling Cost Effectiveness of a Brief Intervention for Alcohol Involved Youth in a Hospital Emergency Department. Society of Behavioral Medicine 2005 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. April, 2005.                                          

Bernardine Pinto, PhD

• Member, Peer Review Committee, Psychosocial and Behavioral Research Committee, American Cancer Society, 2005-2008.

• Editorial Board, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2005-current.

• Member, Grant Review Committee, Lance Armstrong Foundation, 2003-2005.

• Member, Scientific Committee, 7th International Congress of Psycho-Oncology Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004.

• Invited keynote speaker:  Health behavior change interventions among cancer patients.  7^th World Congress of Psychosocial-Oncology, Copenhagen, Denmark. August, 2004.

• Invited Presentation: Health behaviors after cancer treatment. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Disease, Boston, MA. April, 2004.

• Citation paper:  Home-based physical activity for breast cancer patients: Effects at follow-ups. Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD. March, 2004.

• Citation paper:  Physician-delivered activity advice plus extended counseling for older adults (PAL2).  Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.  March, 2004.

• Award for Excellence in Diversity Training, Association of Psychology, Post-Doctoral and Internship Centers, 2003.

• Citation paper:  Moving Forward: A randomized trial of a home-based physical activity program for breast cancer patients. Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.  March, 2003.

Carolyn Rabin, PhD

• Third Prize Poster.  Physical activity among breast cancer survivors: Regular exercisers vs. participants in a physical activity intervention, Brown Public Health Research Day. April, 2003

Hollie Raynor, PhD

• Invited Presentation: The childhood obesity epidemic:  What can a pediatrician do?  Pediatric Grand Rounds, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.  October, 2005.

• Invited Presentation:  Behavioral Treatments for Obesity. The Dietitian of Canada Annual Conference in Toronto, ON.  May, 2005.

• Citation Award Paper and Most Scientific Poster, Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2003.

Edmond Shenassa, ScD

•  Member, Scientific Review Board, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services, 2003 - Present.

• Invited Presentation: The environmental 'riskscape' and social inequality: Implications for explaining maternal and child health disparities. Session: Future of Maternal and Child Health,  APHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.  December 10-14, 2005.

• Invited Presentation: Housing and health. World Health Organization, WHO Technical Meeting on Quantifying Disease from Inadequate Housing, Bonn, Germany. November 28-30, 2005.

• Member, NIH Scientific Review Group: ZRG1 RPHB-B 50 R, Mind, Body and Health, 2003.

John Todaro, PhD

• Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, 2004 - Present.

• Training Fellow, NIH Summer Training Institute on Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, 2003.