Health Psychology Lecture Series Seminar

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. For additional information, please contact Chris Dunkel Schetter dunkel@psych.ucla.edu .

Winter 2023 Schedule

Winter 2023, Wednesdays 12-1pm

1/11/2023 Health Psychology graduate students only Admissions Discussion
1/18/2023 Praise Owoyemi, M.A.
Predoctoral student in Clinical Psychology

Corinne Meinhausen, M.A.
Predoctoral student in Health Psychology

Predictors of Depressive and Physical Symptoms After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Skin Conductance Reactivity as a Predictor of Stroke-induced PTSD Symptoms

1/25/2023 Sabrina Strings, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Fellow & Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
The Misogynoir of Fatphobia: A Retrospective
2/1/2023
(Zoom)
Amanda Acevedo, Ph.D.
Program Officer & Social and Behavioral Scientist
Administrator
National Cancer Institute

Sharon Smith, Ph.D.
Program Officer
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Panel Discussion on Being a Program Officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2/8/2023 Amber Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Science
California State University, Long Beach
Sociocognitive Processes: Linking Discrimination to Cardiovascular Risk among Black Women
2/15/2023 Julia Yarrington, M.A.
Predoctoral student in Clinical Psychology
Sylvanna Vargas, Ph.D., MPH

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles

Life Events and Mental Health: The Role of Affect,
Reappraisal, and Inflammation

Using Community-Based Partnerships to Engage
Sexual and Gender Minority People of Color in a
Hair Cortisol Study

2/22/2023 Amanda Velazquez, M.D., DABOM
Director of Obesity Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Why Is It So Difficult to Lose Weight and Keep It Off?
3/1/2023 Kristine Molina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychological Science
University of California, Irvine
TBD
3/8/2023 NO MEETING: American Psychosomatic Society
Meeting
3/15/2023 Bianca Wilson, Ph.D.
Full Researcher & Senior Scholar of Public Policy
School of Law
University of California, Los Angeles
Making Sense of Sexual Identity Differences in
Health and Economic Outcomes Among LBQ
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. For additional information, please contact Professor Chris Dunkel Schetter dunkel@psych.ucla.edu .

Past Syllabi