Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology

March 23, 2007
8:30 am - 5:15 pm

Implementing and Evaluating Health Behavior Interventions

Lessons from an Emergent Area in Health Psychology—
Organ Donation

Schedule

9:00 – 9:10		Eusebio Alvaro & Jason Siegel	Introduction
9:15 - 9:35		Stuart Oskamp	Applying Psychology to Health Issues: Not Last Decade’s Approach
9:40 – 10:00		Mary Ganikos	Funding research that makes a difference: Lessons from a behavioral science program for organ donation research
10:05 – 10:25		Kimberly Downing	First Person Consent Ohio Donor Registry: Applying Theory and Research to a Statewide Intervention to Increase Organ Donor Registration
10:25 – 10:45			Break
10:45 – 11:05		Diane Dodd-McCue	Behavioral research in hospital settings: The Family Communication Coordinator (FCC) Protocol and Research Applications in Organ Donation
11:10 – 11:30		Nancy Fahrenwald	Intervention research with American Indian, Alaska Native and other First Nation Peoples: An Organ and Tissue Donation Exemplar
11:35 – 11:55		Tom Feeley	School-based health interventions: A multi-campus classroom intervention to promote organ donation
12:00 – 12:20		Michael Quinn	Workplace interventions: Real-world challenges and practical solutions to program design and evaluation
12:20 – 1:30			Lunch
1:30 – 1:40		Eusebio Alvaro & Jason Siegel	Introduction
1:45 –2:05		Sara Pace Jones & Dave Bosch	Researchers are from Mars; Community Organizations are From Venus: Lessons learned when research design meets the road
2:10 – 2:30		Robert Fischer	Evaluating the Effects of Community-Based Health Interventions: Seeking Impact and Saving Lives Via Organ and Tissue Donation Promotion Efforts
2:35 – 2:55		Jackson Barnette	Measurement issues and methods in field based research and evaluation
3:00 – 3:20		Anita Pomerantz	Studying interpersonal conversations about health: The case of family discussions of organ and tissue donation
3:20 - 3:40			Break
3:45 – 4:00		Eusebio Alvaro & Jason Siegel	Synthesis: Applying Health Behavior Theory
4:15 – 5:15			Reception

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