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EPIC Center data meetings provide an opportunity for EPIC faculty, junior investigators, and
graduate students working on EPIC research to present a paper in progress to the entire
research team. These meetings foster Center collaboration across projects and encourage
production of project-generated presentations and publications for submission to
academic conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
The 2009 Data Meetings featured the following speakers:
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
First Presentation: Robert Schnoll and Freda Patterson — Message Priming and Enrollment in, and Response to, a Smoking Cessation Program: A Pilot Study
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
First Presentation: Cabral Bigman — TBA
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
First Presentation: Andy Tan — Relationships between treatment information-seeking and adjuvant therapy among patients with Stages 2 and 3 colon cancer
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
First Presentation: A. Susana Ramírez — Information seeking from media and family/friends increases the likelihood of engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
First Presentation: Young Min Baek — TBA
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
First Presentation: Sally Dunlop — Using Mass Media Messages for Cancer Prevention: Narratives, Emotion and Conversations
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
First Presentation: Hyun Suk Kim — TBA
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The purpose of the annual Speaker Series is to bring nationally recognized scholars,
including leaders in the Cancer Communication field, to the EPIC Center. This series
serves to engage outside investigators and create new opportunities for
collaboration with scholars from other universities as well as other departments
within the Penn community. The 2009-2010 EPIC Speaker Series will feature the
following speakers:
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2009-2010 Speaker Series
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Kevin Volpp, Ph.D., Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Center for Health Incentives—Using Ideas from Behavioral Economics to Promote Health Behaviors
| Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sandi Smith, Ph.D., Director, Health and Risk Communication Center—Communication Research in the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers
| Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Sherry Emery, MBA, Ph.D.—TBA
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Nicholas Cristakis, MD, Ph.D., MPH—TBA
| Wednesday, February 24, 2010
James Dillard, Ph.D.—TBA
| Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Deborah Small, Ph.D.—TBA
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2008-2009 Speaker Series
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Debra Roter, MPH, DrPH—Optimizing Communication in Elderly Patient Visits: Patient-companions as a Quality of Care Resource
| Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Joseph Turow, Ph.D.—Prime Time Doctors: How and Why They Have Changed
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009
David Roskos-Ewoldsen, Ph.D.—Implications of Attitude and Norm Accessibility for Adolescent Substance Abuse
| Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Rick Street, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Communication, Research Professor in Medicine—How talk in medical encounters heals: Pathways linking clinician-patient communication to health outcomes
| Friday, February 20, 2009
Rene Weber, Ph.D., M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Communication/Cognitive Science Program
University of California Santa Barbara—Communication and Cognitive Neuroscience – A Promising Combination?
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Dr. Kristen Harrison - Associate Professor, Communication and Nutritional Sciences—Virtually Perfect: Adolescent Responses to Digital Manipulation in Visual Media
| Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sheila Murphy, Ph.D.—Translating Theory into Practice: Exploring the Determinants of Change in Health-related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior in Entertainment Education
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Conventions
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NCI/CECCR II Grantee Meeting
May 6-8, 2009
| International Communication Association (ICA)
May 21-25, 2009
| CPHI 2009 Summer Institute: GIS and Public Heath
Jun 10-12, 2009
| CDC National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media
Aug 12-14, 2009
| American Public Health Association Meeting (APHA)
Nov 7-11, 2009
| National Communication Association Annual Convention
Nov 12-15, 2009
| AACR Frontiers in Cancer Research
Dec 6-9, 2009
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