Events

Several Behavioral Research Program staff members presented at the 40th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine held in Washington, DC, from March 6–9, 2019.

Check our curated program schedule below for BRP presentations at symposia, seminars, roundtable discussions, oral and poster presentations, and meetings of special interest groups, among other events.

Tuesday, March 5

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Susan Czajkowski (Co-Chair)	12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Cutting-Edge Issues in the Design of Behavioral Clinical Trials: What Every Investigator Should Know	Pre-conference workshop

Wednesday, March 6

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Richard Moser (Co-Chair) Kelly Blake (Presenter)	8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.	Use of Nationally Representative, Population-Based Datasets for Health-Related Research	Course
Susan Czajkowski (Co-Chair) Frank Perna (Presenter)	8:30 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.	The “Nuts and Bolts” of Behavioral Intervention Development: Study Designs, Methods and Funding Opportunities	Seminar
Frank Perna (Presenter)	11:45 a.m. – 2:15 pm	Innovative Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion and Sedentary Behavior Reduction Interventions	Course
Neha Trivedi (Presenter) Neha Trivedi, Mindy Krakow, Anna Gaysynsky, Katherine Hyatt Hawkins, Emily Peterson, Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou (Authors)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Trust in Health Messages on Social Media: The Role of Information Source	Poster
Allie Rayner (Presenter) Allie Rayner, Alice Murray, Jess Havlak, Dannielle Kelley, Emily Grenen (Presenters)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Writing for Results: How Social Media Message Framing Can Drive Conversions to Digital Cessation Resources	Poster

Thursday, March 7

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Susan Czajkowski (Presenter)	7 a.m. – 7:50 a.m.	Theories and Techniques of Behavior Change Interventions SIG	Roundtable
Jennifer Taber (Chair) Rebecca Ferrer (Presenter)	8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Boundary Conditions of Theory-Driven Health Behavior Change Interventions	Symposium
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou (Presenter)	8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Harnessing Social, Mobile and Sensor Technologies for Cancer Prevention Research: From Recruitment to Intervention	Symposium
Kelly Blake (Presenter) Lisa Klesges (Discussant)	8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Exploring the Lay of the Land: Assets, Needs and Opportunities in Rural Cancer Control	Symposium
Kavita Iyer (Presenter)	11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Examining the Integration of Basic and Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences Research over the past Twenty Years: A Pilot Study	Paper session
April Oh (Presenter)	1 p.m. – 2 p.m.	Using Geospatial Approaches to Optimize Health Promotion	Panel discussion
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou (Discussant)	2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	New Developments in Online Social Networks, Health, and Wellbeing	Presidential Symposium
Camella Rising	3:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.	Characterizing Individuals by mHealth Pattern of Use: Results from the 2018 NCI Health Information National Trends Survey	Paper Session
Neha Trivedi	4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Awareness of Palliative Care in the Nationally-Representative 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey	Paper Session
Laura Vercammen (Presenter) Alice Murray, Laura Vercammen, Dannielle Kelley, Kara Wiseman (Authors)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Identifying Engaging Characteristics of Facebook Posts within a National Smoking Cessation Campaign	Poster
Kara Wiseman (Presenter) Kara Wiseman, Kisha Coa, Laura Vercammen, Yvonne Prutzman (Authors)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Applying Ecological Momentary Assessment to a Mobile Application for Smoking Cessation: The Impact on Engagement	Poster
Frank Perna, Anne Julian (Presenters) Dawn Holman, Kathleen Ragan, Anne Julian, Frank Perna (Authors)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	Activities and Sun Protection Behaviors Adults are Often Engaging In When They Get a Sunburn	Poster

Friday, March 8

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Bradford Hesse (Chair) Melinda Krakow (Presenter) Lisa Klesges (Discussant)	8 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	The Last Mile Problem in Healthcare: How Behavioral Medicine Can Change the Narrative in Evidence Implementation	Presidential Symposium
Tanya Agurs-Collins (Discussant)	8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Novel Diet Interventions That Use Self-Monitoring Technology for Feedback: Study Design and Evaluation Considerations	Symposium
Jennifer Taber (Co-chair and presenter) Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou (Discussant)	8 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Insights into Illness Understanding and End-of-Life Decision Making Among Patients with Advanced Disease	Symposium
Susan Czajkowski (Moderator)	11 a.m. – 12 p.m.	To Promote Successful Behavior Change, Must Intervention Studies Target Multiple Levels of Influence Simultaneously?	Mid-day Meeting; Debate
David Berrigan (Chair) William Klein (Presenter)	1 p.m. – 2 p.m.	Alcohol and Cancer: Risk, Awareness, and Communication Needs	Panel discussion
Richard Moser (Chair and presenter)	1 p.m. – 2 p.m.	Small Is Essential: Integrating Methodological and Intervention Research in Small Populations	Panel Discussion
Bradford Hesse (Panelist)	1 p.m. - 2 p.m.	Open Science and Behavioral Medicine: What, Why, and How Should We Engage?	Master Lecture Panel
Frank Perna (Chair) Anne Julian, Kasey Morris, Calvin Tribby (Presenters) Jenn Nguyen (Discussant)	2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Emerging Research Directions and Methodologies in Skin Cancer Prevention Research: A National Cancer Institute Perspective	Symposium
Susan Czajkowski (Discussant)	2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Towards a Basic Science Understanding of Research Study Refusal: Hard Reality, Untapped Area for Study, or Both?	Symposium
Kelly Blake (Co-chair)	3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Improving Communication In The Context Of Cancer Prevention & Control	Paper Session
Katie Slacin (Presenter) Katie Slacin, Tanya Agurs-Collins, Laura Dwyer (Authors)	6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.	The school and home food environment’s impact on food intake and body mass index among racially and ethnically diverse adolescents	Poster

Saturday, March 9

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Cendrine Robinson (Presenter) Cendrine Robinson, Kara Wiseman, Monica Webb Hooper, Sherine El-Toukhy, Emily Grenen, Laura Vercammen, Yvonne Prutzman (Authors)	10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Engagement among African American and White smokers in the SmokefreeTXT Cessation Program	Poster
Christopher Wheldon (presenter) Christopher Wheldon, Ryan Watson, Jessica Fish, Kristi Gamarel (authors)	10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Cigarette smoking among youth at the intersection of sexual orientation and gender identity	Poster

Several members of the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB) presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, February 20 – 23, 2019, in San Francisco.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Michele Bloch	8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Authorship and Grantsmanship for Early Career Investigators in Tobacco and Nicotine Research	Pre-Conference Workshop
Anne Hartman	8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Understanding Tobacco Use Trends: Leveraging Harmonized Data from the U.S. Tobacco Use Supplement – Current Population Survey, 1992-2015	Pre-Conference Workshop
Carolyn Reyes-Guzman	8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Understanding Tobacco Use Trends: Leveraging Harmonized Data from the U.S. Tobacco Use Supplement – Current Population Survey, 1992-2015	Pre-Conference Workshop
Gordon Willis	8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Understanding Tobacco Use Trends: Leveraging Harmonized Data from the U.S. Tobacco Use Supplement – Current Population Survey, 1992-2015	Pre-Conference Workshop

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Kara Wiseman	4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Understanding Relationships Between Social Media Reach and Smoking Cessation Resource Adoption	Poster
Annette Kaufman	4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Use and Cigarette Smoking Among U.S. Youth: Findings from Waves 1 and 2 of the PATH Study, 2013-2015	Poster

Friday, February 22, 2019

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Glen Morgan	8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Understanding Smoking in Patients with Cancer: From Prevalence to a Placebo-Controlled Trial	Symposium
Mirjana Djordjevic	3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Application of biomarkers for risk assessment and interventions in vulnerable populations	Symposium
Bob Vollinger	3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Bringing it all Back Home: Measuring the Implementation and Impact of Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Rules	Symposium
Dannielle Kelley	4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Prevalence and characteristics of Twitter posts about court-ordered, tobacco-related corrective statements	Poster
Elizabeth Orlan	4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Characteristics of Smokeless Tobacco Users, Smokers and Dual Users in Indonesia: An Analysis of GATS 2011 Data	Poster
Annette Kaufman	4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Harm Perceptions and Tobacco Use Initiation Among Youth in Wave 1 and 2 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study	Poster

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Staff	Time	Title	Type
Mirjana Djordjevic	8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Smokeless Tobacco and Areca Nut: Global Diversity of Products and Parallels in Associated Health Risks	Symposium
Stephanie Land	12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Polytobacco Use Prevalence by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Education Level: The Importance of Intersectionality	Poster
Jamie Cordova (Presenter) Jamie Cordova, Rachel Grana Mayne, Carolyn Reyes-Guzman (Authors)	12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Tobacco Use Profiles by Asthma Status, Adults and Youth in the PATH Study	Poster

2018 Sandpit Workshop: Implementing Digital Health Interventions for Cancer Prevention

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Cancer Research U.K. (CRUK) convened an invitation-only “Sandpit” workshop (i.e., ideas lab) on October 28-31, 2018, in Potomac, Maryland. Workshop participants formed multidisciplinary teams to generate novel ideas for advancing cancer prevention through the effective implementation of digital health tools. They also received guidance on applying for seed funding from CRUK to test the feasibility of their ideas.

2017 New Grantee Workshop Overview

The Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) hosted the 2017 DCCPS New Grantee Workshop on September 18-19, 2017.

The workshop brought together new extramural investigators funded by DCCPS who received their first NIH Research Project Grants (R01) in FY 2016 and FY 2017. The primary goals of the workshop were to help build a strong and vibrant cancer control research program and to help advance new investigators’ careers.

You can find more information on the 2017 New Grantee Workshop Overview page.

2017 Sandpit Workshop: Knowledge Integration Across Health Domains, Professions, and Nations to Advance Cancer Prevention

April 24-26, 2017
Potomac, Maryland

The National Cancer Institute hosted a “Sandpit” workshop (i.e., ideas lab) that brought together a broad, multidisciplinary group of participants. Participants were encouraged to collaborate on innovative ideas for integrating knowledge across health behaviors, research fields, and national contexts in order to advance cancer control and prevention. Health behaviors often co-occur and have shared determinants at multiple levels (e.g., biological, individual, relational, environmental). However, research programs frequently examine and intervene on single health behaviors without systematically integrating knowledge across behaviors. Through an intensive, interactive, and collaborative experience that brought together researchers from different disciplines and national contexts, the Sandpit workshop aimed to facilitate the development of research ideas that cut across behavioral domains, professional sectors, and geographic boundaries to cultivate new insights across five key cancer-related health behaviors: tobacco use, alcohol consumption, dietary behavior, physical activity, and UV exposure.

The intensive three-day residential workshop took place April 24-26, 2017, in Potomac, Maryland, and provided participants with an opportunity to:

Network and form collaborations spanning different research areas, organizations, and nations.
Work in multidisciplinary teams to generate innovative project ideas.
Receive guidance on applying for seed funding from Cancer Research UK to test the feasibility of their ideas.

US and UK teams developed five focus areas.

Advancing Cancer Prevention Pricing Interventions across the UK and US: Optimizing Message Framing (Rachel Carey, David Conway, Joseph Lee, Elisa Trucco)
Changing How People Think and Feel about Cancer Prevention Behaviors: Translating Neuroscience into Population Health (Elisa Trucco, Laura Martin, Sara Levens, Nina Cooperman, Austin Baldwin, Noreen Mdege, Angelos Kassianos)
Incentivized smoking cessation for tobacco treatment-resistant diabetics (Sydney Martinez, Fiona Mitchell, Sammy Quaife)
Project HATCH – Staying Healthy After Childbirth: A cross-national study to support smoking abstinence and inter-related cancer-prevention behaviours among postpartum women (Caitlin Notley, Angelos Kassianos, Dian Nostikasari, Claire Spears, Allison Kurti, Jamie Payton)
RESET Sleep: Regulating Exercise, Substance Use, and Eating through Sleep (Jennifer Taber, Beth Smith, Tapio Paljarvi, Brinda Rana, Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Darren Mays)

Network on Biobehavioral Pathways in Cancer Capstone

September 15-16, 2016
Rockville, Maryland

The Network on Biobehavioral Pathways in Cancer sought to accelerate the translation and communication of biobehavioral discoveries that advance clinical cancer care. Specifically, the network’s researchers explored how psychological phenomena such as stress might affect the biology of cancer and disease outcomes. The capstone meeting brought together all of the funded researchers within the network and gave them the opportunity to present their findings.