1) ABMR Strategic Updates (9am to 9:10am PST) Bring your coffee!
The State of Affairs (Elissa Epel, UCSF, Paige Green, NCI)
New Member Nominations (Mustafa Al Absi, Univ. Minnesota)
2) Pandemic Data Blitz on mental health and COVID (9:10am to 10am) 8’ data, 8 min discussion (15 min each)
a. Mental health and media matter for COVID-19: A national U.S. probability study over time, Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD., Professor, UCI & Alison Holman, PhD, Professor, UCI
b. Emotional health over time of front line workers at NYP-Queens hospital , Liz Brondolo, PhD, Professor, St. Johns University, NYC
c.
Illness symptoms and blood
pressure in a national sample, by race/ethnicity, during COVID, Wendy Mendes, PhD, Professor, PhD, UCSF
3) The relevance of Behavioral Medicine Research in reducing social inequities and racism, in the context of the pandemic and climate crisis (30 min)
Panel and Group Discussion (To fuel our discussion, initial comments by by special guest Ana Diez-Roux, and members John Ruiz, PhD, U. of Az, Julian Thayer, UCI; Michael Diefenbach, PhD, Northwell)
Share your ideas to how can behavioral medicine have a more impactful role.
4) Closing including preparation for 2021 meeting changes (5 min); adjourn at 10:45 am PST.
Background
Reading for ABMR 2020 virtual meeting:
SESSION 2:
Alison
Holman and Roxy Silver
Garfin,
Silver, and E. Holman (in press) The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) Outbreak: Amplification
of Public Health Consequences by Media Exposure,
Health Psychology
Holman, E. A.,
& Grisham, E. L. (2020, June 11). When Time Falls Apart: The Public
Health Implications
of Distorted Time Perception in the Age of COVID-19, Psychological Trauma: Theory,
Research, Practice, and Policy
Liz
Brondolo:
Sofia Pappaa,b,⁎,1, Vasiliki Ntellac,1, Timoleon
Giannakasc, Vassilis G. Giannakoulisc, Eleni
Papoutsic, Paraskevi Katsaounouc (2020). Prevalence of depression, anxiety,
and insomnia among healthcare workers during the
COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Brain Behavior, Immunity
Tait D.
Shanafelt, MD, and John H. Noseworthy, MD (2017) Executive Leadership and
Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement
and Reduce Burnout,
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Wendy
Mendes:
Jamieson, J.P., Koslov, K., Nock, M.K., & Mendes,
W. B. (2013). Experiencing discrimination increases risk-taking. Psychological
Science, 24, 131-139.
Mendes,
W. B. & Muscatell, K. A. (2018). Affective responses as mediators of the
relationship between stigma and health. In B. Major, J. Dovidio, & B.
Link (Eds). The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and
health (pp. 265-283). New York, NY: Oxford University
Press.
SESSION
3:
Ana Diez Roux
https://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/deans-blog/2020/April/The-Pandemic-Meets-fundamentals-of-Epidemiology/
Julian Thayer
LeBarron,
K., & Thayer, J. (2019) The Autonomic Nervous System and
Hypertension: Ethnic Differences and
Psychosocial Factors, Current Cardiology Reports
Kemp et al
(2016). Race and Resting-State Heart Rate Variability in Brazilian
Civil Servants and the Mediating Effects of
Discrimination: An ELSA-Brasil Cohort Study, Psychosomatic Medicine.
Michael Diefenbach
Markkanen, S.,
Anger-Kraavi, A. (2019). Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and
their implications for inequality,
Climate Policy
Ballew et al
(2019). Climate Change in the American Mind: Data, Tools, and Trends, Environment.