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CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (NOTE: PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FINAL PROGRAM AND ROOM ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AT THE CONFERENCE)

Thursday, February 21, 2002

Opening Plenary (8:30am - 10:00am)

Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks

Renee Royak-Schaler, PhD, American Health Foundation, Conference Co-Chair
Gwendolyn Puryear Keita, PhD, American Psychological Association, Conference Co-Chair

Welcome

Norine Johnson, PhD, Past-President, American Psychological Association

Keynote Address

"We Need a Revolution"
Marilyn H. Gaston, MD, Retired Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, and Director, Bureau of Primary Health Care

Special Panel

Women's Voices: What We Can Learn for Research and Practice

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Special Invited Panels

Major National Studies on Women's Health: What Are We Learning from a Behavioral and Social Sciences Perspective? (10:15am - 11:45am)

Psychological Distress in Women with Arthritis, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease (10:15am - 11:45am)

Cancer-related Health Disparities: Issues and Challenges for Women's Health (2:45pm - 4:15pm)

Obesity in Women: Problems and Solutions (4:30pm - 6:00pm)

Continuing Education Workshop

Developing Culturally Appropriate Interventions for Mid-life Women: Improving Decision-making and Communication with Providers - The Ethnicity, Needs, and Decisions of Women (ENDOW) Study (4:30pm - 7:30pm)

Symposia

• Tailoring Women's Health Communications: Current Research and Implications (10:15am - 11:45am)
• Interdisciplinary Care in Women's Health: Five Models of Practice (10:15am - 11:45am)
• Women with Alzheimer's Disease: Future Directions (10:15am - 11:45am)
• Mothers with Mental Illness and their Children: Opportunities for Prevention, Treatment, Support, and Recovery (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
• Health Works in the Community/Health Works for Women 2 (HWC/HHW2) (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
• Low Income Battered Women: Understanding and Meeting their Needs (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
• Genetic Testing for Cancer: Psychological and Behavioral Issues (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
• Gender Differences in Drug Dependence (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Diabetes Self-management for Women in Special Populations (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Hard Times: Incarcerated Mothers and their Children (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Ethnic and Cultural Influences and Intervention on Mid-life Decisions: The Ethnic, Needs, and Decisions of Women (ENDOW) Study (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Empowering Disadvantaged Ethnically Diverse Women Living with AIDS (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Improving Medical Outcomes and Quality of Life for HIV-infected Women (4:30pm - 6:00pm)
• The Rocky Road from Research to Practice: Getting Better Traction (4:30pm - 6:00pm)
• A SAMHSA Initiative: Treatment for Women in the Public Health System with Histories of Violence and Co-occuring Mental Illness and Substance Abuse (4:30pm - 6:00pm)
• Factors Affecting Quality of Life in Young Breast Cancer Survivors (4:30pm - 6:00pm)
• Women and HIV: The Convergence of Drug Abuse, Sex, and Violence (4:30pm - 6:00pm)

Paper Panel Sessions

• The Impact of Recent Mental Health Reforms on Women's Health (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
• Cancer Early Detection: Barriers and Supports (2:45pm - 4:15pm)
• Lay Health Advisors and Peer Educators in Community Interventions (4:30pm - 6:00pm)

Conference Reception (7:00pm - 10:00pm) - The Decatur House, Washington, DC

Friday, February 22, 2002

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Special Invited Panels

Promoting Physical Activity in Women (9:45am - 11:15am)

Women and Depression: Future Research, Clinical Practice, and Public Policy (9:45am - 11:15am)

Gendered Pathways to Substance Use and Abuse: Implications for Prevention and Treatment (1:30pm -3:00pm)

Enhancing Health Outcomes in Older Women (1:30pm - 3:00pm)

Emerging Models for Women's Health Care (3:15pm - 4:45pm)

Continuing Education Workshop

Physical Activity Counseling in a Primary Care Setting (5:00pm - 8:00pm)

Symposia

• Errors and Omissions in Women's Health: Working with Sexual Abuse Survivors (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Effects of Prenatal Maternal Stress: Newest Questions and Findings (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Bridging the Gap Between Public Health Research and Practice in Rural Communities (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Beyond Psychological Distress: Exploring Physical, Social, and Sexual Health Outcomes of Rape (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Women with Epilepsy: A Model for Translating the Science and Clinical Care into Community Interventions (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Osteoporosis: Prevention, Detection, and Management in Women (9:45am - 11:15am)
• Violent Victimization of Substance Abusing Women with Schizophrenia: Contributors, Impact, and Treatment (9:45am - 11:15am)
• Determinants of Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Ethnic and Rural Populations (9:45am - 11:15am)
• Cancer Survivorship: The Search for Well-being after Treatment (9:45am - 11:15am)
• An Integrated Institutional Approach to Women-centered Health Services And Research (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Not-so-strange Bedfellows: Integrating Psychosocial Screening and Referral Into Prenatal Care (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Psychosocial Interventions for Postpartum Depression (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Women's Sexual Health: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach to Low Desire (1:30pm - 3:00pm)
• Work Experience and Women's Health: Job Demands and Opportunities (1:30pm - 3:00pm)
• Intervention Approaches with Women in Diverse Populations at Risk for Drug Use (1:30pm - 3:00pm)
• Meeting the Health Care Needs of Rural Women (1:30pm - 3:00pm)
• Gender Issues in Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Interventions (3:15pm - 4:45pm)
• Innovative Programs in Women's Health Care: An Information-sharing Forum (3:15pm - 4:45pm)
• The Partners Project: A Couple-based Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk-taking (3:15pm - 4:45pm)
• The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Consumer Integration Program Pioneered by Women Consumers (3:15pm - 4:45pm)
• New Media and Health Communications: Issues in Reaching Women (3:15pm - 4:45pm)

Paper Panel Sessions

• The Social Context of Depression (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Public Health Approaches to Women's Health Education (8:30am - 9:30am)
• Menopause Decisions and Quality of Life (9:45am - 11:15am)
• Domestic Violence: Drawing on Research to Develop Interventions (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Reproductive Issues in Women's Health (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Current Issues in Eating Disorders (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• HIV Prevention in Minority Populations (11:30am - 12:30pm)
• Addressing Gender Issues in the Patient-Provider Relationship (3:15pm - 4:45pm)

Poster Session/Reception (5:00pm - 7:00pm)

Saturday, February 23, 2002

Poster Session/Breakfast (8:00am - 10:00am)

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Special Invited Panels

Menopause: Midlife Health Implications (12:30pm - 2:00pm)

Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Disease: Implications for Treatment and Prevention (12:30pm - 2:00pm)

Symposia

• Sleep and Sleep Disorders Across Life Milestones in Women (10:15am - 11:15am)
• The Assessment of Postpartum Depression in Ethnically Diverse Women (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Translating Folic Acid Research to Outcomes in Women's and Children's Health (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Translating Psychosocial Research into Culturally Competent Health Care (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Psychosocial and Behavioral Health Research at the National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Lesbian Health Research Methods and Findings: Implications for Policy and Practice (12:30pm - 2:00pm)
• Focus on Women's Health in Policy and Program (12:30pm - 2:00pm)

Paper Panel Sessions

• Women as Caregivers (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Violence Against Adolescent Women (10:15am - 11:15am)
• Issues in Breast Cancer Risk Communication and Genetic Testing (12:30pm - 2:00pm

Special Address (2:15pm - 3:15pm)

• "The New Frontier: Integrative Approaches to Health & Mental Health" James S. Gordon, MD Director, Center for Mind-Body Medicine Chair, White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

Closing Plenary (3:30pm - 4:45pm)