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Summary, Speakers

Wednesday, September 25, 2002
12:00-1:30pm
Rayburn House Office Building 
Washington, DC

Held in cooperation with the office of Representative Patrick Kennedy, this congressional briefing was sponsored by The American Psychological Society and The American Psychological Association and the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences in support of the Decade of Behavior theme of "health."

Summary:

The National Institutes of Health has enjoyed a substantial increase in funding over the last five years, the result of the White House and Congressional commitment to double the Institute's budget over that time.  NIH has made great strides in health research and application, not only in the biomedical arena but also in the behavioral and social sciences.  This briefing highlighted recent breakthroughs and other successes that the behavioral sciences have made in the a variety of areas, including clinical trials, tobacco use, and schizophrenia. [Read a more detailed presentation summary on the APA website.]

Speakers: 

[View speaker bios and PowerPoint presentations on the Federation website]

Terrance Albrecht, PhD, University of South Florida
"The Role of Physician-Patient Communication in Cancer Clinical Trials"

Timothy Baker, PhD,  University of Wisconsin- Madison

"Relapse Back to Tobacco Smoking: Core Role of the Tobacco Withdrawal Syndrome"

James Gold, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

"Control of Attention in Schizophrenia"

Moderator:

Jessie Gruman, PhD, Center for the Advancement of Health

Introducers:

Raynard Kington, PhD & MD, Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH 

Robert Croyle, PhD, National Cancer Institute

David Shurtleff, PhD, National Institute of Drug Abuse

Bruce Cuthbert, PhD, National Institute of Mental Heath

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