New Technologies and Behavior Change Interventions: What Can They Do for Each Other?
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Lecture Series
New mHealth technologies are proliferating at an astonishing rate, with many new tools being harnessed for behavior change interventions. Because they are inexpensive, transportable, and have broad (and growing) penetration, mHealth tools (e.g., smartphone apps, text messaging, accelerometers/pedometers) have the potential to overcome access barriers and extend the reach of behavioral interventions to the large population that may benefit. The co-emergence of new mHealth tools and new, efficient methodologies for intervention development creates an opportunity to ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 12, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Effects of Early, Profound Deprivation on Brain and Behavioral Development
Presented by: Dr. Charles A. Nelson, III, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience Harvard Medical School Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research Boston Children's Hospital Laboratories of Cognitive NeuroscienceCategory: BSSR Lecture SeriesAired date: 01/31/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 3, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
NCCAM Integrative Lecture - Probiotics, the Microbiome, and Host Immune Response - Insights for Novel Therapeutic Approaches
Presented by: Patricia Hibberd, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Chief, Division of Global Health, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital Category: NCCAM LecturesAired date: 09/09/2013 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Screening Mammography: Science, Policy, and Politics - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The 2013 Annual Advances in Cancer Prevention Lecture will be given by Dr. Diana B. Petitti, widely regarded as one of the world's leading epidemiologic experts on hormones and disease. Her recent work has focussed on the applications of systematic review, meta-analysis and decision analysis to the formulation os health policy.
Dr. Petitti received her BA degree from Cornell University, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH from Berkeley School of Public Health. She has held positions with the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, as a faculty member at the University of Cali...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 27, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Autism Awareness Lecture - April 2013
The National Institute of Mental Health is pleased to invite you to attend a special lecture to recognize National Autism Awareness Month. In his talk Mr. Robison will discuss our responsibility to develop tools and therapies to reduce disability and suffering associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD), while at the same time respecting the unique contribution that individuals with ASD make to society.
John Elder Robison is an Aspergian who grew up in the 1960s before the Asperger diagnosis came into common use. At age sixteen, Mr. Robison left high school to join his first band as a sound engineer. Within a few year...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 11, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy & The ACA and the Future of Health Care Research in the U.S
BSSR Lecture Series
"Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy"
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. He is a professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Halfon served as a member of the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine from 2001-2006, and also served on the IOM/NRC Committ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 7, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Personalizing therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital Dr Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, presented Clinical Grand Rounds of the topic of personalized therapy for IBD. The presentation was recorded 1 May 2012. [...] (Source: The Digital Atlas of Video Education - Gastroenterology)
Source: The Digital Atlas of Video Education - Gastroenterology - February 4, 2013 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: admin Tags: Clinical Grand Rounds Source Type: video
Separating Facts From Fads: How Our Choices Impact Students' Performance and Persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Presented by: Phil M. Sadler, Ph.D., Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Science Education DepartmentCategory: Science EducationAired date: 01/17/2013 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 18, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
DDM Seminar Series - Emotional Intelligence (NIH Only)
This is the second seminar of the 2013 Deputy Director for Management (DDM) Seminar Series. The seminar will take place Thursday, February 14th from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, Building 10 and will feature speaker Dr. Daniel Goleman. As an author and psychologist, Dr. Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business.
His 1995 book, "Emotional Intelligence" was on The New York Times best sellers list for a year-and-a-half. In 2011, Dr. Goleman published "Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence" tying
together two decades of research, ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 14, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Cancer Institute Division of Clinical Sciences Fellows Symposium 2000
Presented by: Keynote Address: "Angiogenesis: Laboratory to the Clinic" M. Judah Folkman, M.D. Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Category: ConferencesAired date: 03/31/2000 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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