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Agenda

Time Title Moderator
8:00 a.m. Registration  
 
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks
William T. Riley, Ph.D.
NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
 
 
8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Honorees
Moderator: Christine M. Hunter, Ph.D., ABPP
Captain, U.S. Public Health Service
Deputy Director, OBSSR, NIH

Intersecting social inequalities and body mass index trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood
Taylor Hargrove, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Developmental pathways from parental socioeconomic status to adolescent substance use: Alternative and complementary reinforcement
Jungeun Olivia Lee, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Department of Children Youth and Families
University of Southern California

Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models
Marco Venniro, Ph.D.
Center on Compulsive Behavior (CCB) Postdoctoral Research Fellow National Institute on Drug Abuse

Education, smoking, and cohort change: Forwarding a multidimensional theory of the environmental moderation of genetic effects
Robbee Wedow, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Fellow in Sociology, Harvard Department of Sociology
 
 
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break  
 
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture Presentation and Q&A
Moderator:
Erica Spotts, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
OBSSR, NIH

Culture and Resilience: Insights from the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans
Mark J. VanLandingham, Ph.D.
Thomas C. Keller Professor
Director, Center for Studies of Displaced Populations
Tulane University
 
 
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
William T. Riley, Ph.D.
NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Director, OBSSR, NIH
 
 
12:00 p.m. Adjournment  

Note: Attendees are responsible for meals and/or light refreshments at their own cost. The U.S. government and government contractors cannot facilitate the provision of food and/or light refreshments.