Lecture Series – Health Psychology Program

Health Psychology Lecture Series Seminar

Winter 2025 Schedule

Winter 2025, Wednesdays 12-1pm, Pritzker 3572

1/8/25	Jennifer Sumner, PhD Associate Professor	Admissions planning: Health Psychology area majors
1/15/25	Stephen Schueller, PhD Professor, Department of Psychological Science, UC Irvine Co-Director, Dissemination & Implementation Unit, UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science	Scaling Mental Health Resources through Digital Mental Health
1/22/25	Anna Lau, PhD Professor Department of Psychology, UCLA	Standing on Shoulders: Services, Intervention, Implementation Research to Advance Mental Health Equity for Asian American Youth
1/29/25	Hugo Sanchez Hernandez, Ph.D. NIMH Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Psychology, UCLA	College Students’ Academic Achievements: Implications of Status Shifting and Ethnic Heritage on Emotions and Sharing Behavior
2/5/25	Michael Ong, M.D., Ph.D. Professor in Residence of Medicine & Health Policy and Management, UCLA Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System	Intersection of Mental Health with Physical Health: Musings from a General Internist
2/12/25	Ayako Miyashita, J.D. Co-Director, UCLA Hub for Health Intervention, Policy and Practice Adjunct Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Social Welfare	Translating Research Findings for Policy Impact: Lessons from HIV Law and Policy
2/19/25	Itai Ricon-Becker, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA	Clinical Social Genomics: Using RNA to Guide Psychosocial Interventions
2/26/25	Fran Querdasi, M.A. NIMH Predoctoral Student Developmental Psychology, UCLA	Under the Skin and Into the Gut: Early Life Adversity, The Gut-Microbiome-Immune Axis, and Childhood Health
3/5/25	Leah Cha, M.A. Predoctoral Student Health Psychology, UCLA Manuel Ramirez, M.A. NIMH Predoctoral Student Health Psychology, UCLA	Neighborhood Disorder and Social Cohesion: A Longitudinal Investigation of Links with Maternal Cardiometabolic Risk One Year Postpartum Trajectories of Stress and Depression among Adolescents and Young Adults Living with HIV
3/12/25	Antonia Seligowski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Effects of PTSD and Sex Hormones on Cardiovascular Risk in Women

This interdisciplinary seminar is sponsored by the UCLA Health Psychology Program (Department of Psychology) and NIMH training grant #15750. Interested persons are encouraged to attend any or all of these sessions. The seminar is also offered for two credits per quarter as Psychology 219: Health Psychology Lecture Series. For additional information, please contact Professor Julie Bower at jbower@psych.ucla.edu.