Lecture Series – Health Psychology Program

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