CHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2015
“Addressing Cancer Survivors’ Health Behaviors: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities”
Julia Rowland, PhD, NCI, NIH, DHHS
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, UConn
Center for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture -- at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-02-19-15.
About the Speaker
Dr. Rowland is Director of the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Survivorship and a long-time clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of psychosocial aspects of cancer. She has worked with and conducted competitively funded research among both pediatric and adult cancer survivors and their families, and published broadly in psycho-oncology. She co-edited the ground-breaking text, Handbook of Psychooncology (Oxford University Press, 1989), and the more recent Handbook of Cancer Control and Behavioral Science (American Psychological Association Press, 2008).
Dr. Rowland received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and completed a two-year NIH funded post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in psychosocial oncology. While at MSKCC, where she held joint appointments in pediatrics and neurology, Dr. Rowland helped to develop and was the first Director of the Post-Treatment Resource Program, an innovative resource that continues to provide a full range of non-medical services to patients and their families after the end of treatment. In 1990 Dr. Rowland became founding Director of the Psycho-Oncology Program at Georgetown University and the Lombardi Cancer Center. Since being recruited to the NCI in 1999, she has sought to champion the visibility of and investment in cancer survivorship research both within the Institute and across other federal and non-governmental agencies, and to raise public awareness about the health and quality-of-life needs of the growing population of cancer survivors and their families.
Dr. Rowland has been recognized for her many contributions to the field of psycho-oncology by the conferring of Fellow status in the American Psychological Association’s Division 38 -- Health Psychology, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), and was the recipient in 2014 of the APOS Distinguished Public Service Award as well as the Bernard Fox Memorial Award from the International Psychosocial Oncology Society.
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