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Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease First State-of-the-Science Meeting

AGENDA



Wednesday, February 27, 2002
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Cancer Core Committee Working Dinner
Thursday, February 28, 2002
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Introduction
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Dr. Jan A. Moynihan
S chool of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester Medical Center
Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Modulation of Immunity
9:45 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. Dr. Kelley S. Madden
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester Medical Center
Catecholamines, Sympathetic Innervation, and Immunity
10:25 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Dr. Barbara K. Rimer
Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
Welcoming Message
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. Dr. Keith W. Kelley
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cytokine-Induced Sickness Behavior
11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Dr. Robert Dantzer
INRA-INSERM, Bordeaux, France
Cytokines and Depression
12:10 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. Lunch
1:25 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. Dr. Robert Ader
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester Medical Center
Conditioned Immunomodulation: Past, Present and Future
2:10 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Dr. James M. Krueger
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Sleep and Host Defense
2:50 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. Break
3:05 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Dr. Suzanne C. Segerstrom
Department of Psychology
University of Kentucky
Individual Differences in Psychoneuroimmunology: Lessons From Personality Psychology
3:50 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Dr. John T. Cacioppo
The Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago
Behavioral, Autonomic, Neuroendocrine, and Immunologic
Characteristics of the Lonely
4:30 p.m. Adjournment
6:30 p.m. Dinner offsite (see registration desk for location)
Friday, March 1, 2002
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Dr. David L. Felten
College of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Complementary Interventions of Humor and Music: Modulation of Neuroendocrine and Immune Parameters
9:15 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Dr. Yufang Shi
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Stress and Lymphocyte Apoptosis
9:55 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. Break
10:25 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. Dr. Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu
Department of Psychology
Tel Aviv University
PNI Influences on Resistance to Tumor Metastasis: Surgery and Stress as Risk Factors, and the Potential Clinical Use of Prophylactic Measures
11:10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Dr. Steven F. Maier
Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience
University of Colorado, Boulder
Immune-Brain Communication: Implications for Cancer
11:50 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Wrap-Up and Adjournment
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Cancer Core Committee Working Lunch
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