UCLA HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY/BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE SEMINAR Fall 2005 Psychology 425 Wednesdays 12:00 - 1:00 5461 Franz Hall DATE 10/5/05 PRESENTER Chris Dunkel Schetter, Ph.D. TITLE Organizational Meeting Professor Department of Psychology UCLA 10/12/05 Health Psychology Core Faculty Department of Psychology UCLA 10/19/05 Jeffrey T. Parsons, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) 10/26/05 Tyan Parker Dominguez, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social Work University of Southern California 11/2/05 Steve Shoptaw, Ph.D. Visiting Professor Department of Family Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA 11/9/05 Roshan Bastani, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Dean for Research School of Public Health Associate Director Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center & School of Public Health UCLA 11/16/05 Michelle Craske, Ph.D. Professor Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences UCLA 11/23/05 11/30/05 Health Behavior Change Interventions and HIV Racism-related Stress and the Persistent Racial Disparity in Pregnancy Interventions for Methamphetamine Abuse and Dependence: Behavioral, Biological and Cultural Implications Methodological Pitfalls: Lessons From Two Large Randomized Trials on Cancer Screening Common and Specific Risk Factors for Emotional Disorders HOLIDAY HOLIDAY Belinda Campos, Ph.D. Chasing the Measures: Understanding the Influence of Latino Culture on Health Postdoctoral Researcher Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) UCLA 12/7/05 Publishing: Tips on How Not to Perish in Health Psychology Johanna Jarcho, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology UCLA Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Placebo Effects This interdisciplinary seminar is sponsored by the UCLA Health Psychology Program (Department of Psychology). Interested persons are encouraged to attend any or all of these sessions. The seminar is also offered for two credits per quarter. For additional information, please contact Professor Chris Dunkel Schetter (206-8116 or dunkel@psych.ucla.edu).