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December 14, 2010
The 6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine: University of Leeds
Location: Leeds, UK
Dates: December 14-15 2010
Abstract deadline: Friday 20th August 2010 Extended to October 29, 2010
Early bird egistration deadline: 29th October, 2010
The Society invites all behavioural and public health researchers, clinical practitioners, epidemiologists, health and clinical psychologists, medical sociologists, health economists, nurses, pharmacists and all other interested colleagues in the field of behavioural medicine to participate in this two day meeting at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds.
This year’s featured theme is “Advancing Science and Knowledge Translation” although submissions on a wide range of topics are invited. All submissions must use the relevant abstract form (see below).
Keynote speakers:
Sally Macintyre
Professor of Social & Public Health Science, University of Glasgow, and Director, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Evaluating complex interventions and natural experiments
Andrew Steptoe
British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Stress, resilience and biological ageing: a psychobiological perspective
Carl May
Professor of Healthcare Innovation, University of Southampton
Reconfiguring Illness Careers? Applications for normalization process theory in understanding the work of being a patient
Frank Kee
Professor of Public Health Medicine, Queens University Belfast, and Director of the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI)
Paradigm shifts in public health - overdue or overdone?
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts are now invited for oral presentations only. This year’s featured theme is “Advancing Science and Knowledge Translation,” although submissions on a wide range of topics are invited. All submissions must use the relevant abstract form available via: http://www.uksbm.org.uk Late -breaking abstract submission deadline - 29th October.
Registration
Price freeze: we shall be holding this year’s delegate rates at the same level as for previous years - see http://www.uksbm.org.uk for details.
Please email any queries to: uksbm@leeds.ac.uk
