Friday, December 6, 2019

 
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
James Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), Office of the Director (OD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
 
9:10 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. State of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the NIH
William T. Riley, Ph.D., Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), DPCPSI, OD, NIH
 
9:35 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Clinical Trial Policies Recognition
 
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break
 
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Featured Presentation: Harnessing Mindset in 21st Century Healthcare
Alia Crum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
 
10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Session 1: BSSR in Health and Wellness
Moderator:


Cost-effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Improving Diet and Health Through Medicare and Medicaid: A Microsimulation Study
Yujin Lee, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

How do mindfulness interventions work?
David Creswell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
 
11:20 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch and Networking
 
12:30 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Keynote Address: Behavioral Science Issues in Minority Health and Cancer Health Disparities Research
Chanita Hughes Halbert, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Assessment, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement, College of Medicine, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Distinguished AT&T Endowed Chair for Cancer Equity, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina
 
1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Session 2: Incorporating Cutting-Edge Technology in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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Information and communications technology driven healthcare for personal and population health
Shelly Fritz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Washington State University

The potential of wearable artificial intelligence for effective autism treatment at home
Dennis P. Wall, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford Medical School

Diving deep into behavior analysis with DeepBehavior
Ahmet Arac, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles
 
2:25 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. Break
 
2:40 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. Session 3: Brain and Behavior
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How does the cerebellum contribute to non-motor behaviors?
Kamran Khodakhah, Ph.D., Chair, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience; Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair in Neuroscience; and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sex- and circuit-specific determinants of stress resilience
Michael Baratta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder

Coupled Ripple Oscillations Between the Medial Temporal Lobe and Neocortex Retrieve Human Memory
Kareem Zaghloul, M.D., Ph.D., Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
 
3:55 p.m. Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Dana Greene, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health