7th ANNUAL MICHAEL & SUSAN DELL LECTURESHIP in CHILD HEALTH Sharing knowledge to inspire a healthy world. Honoring Guy S. Parcel, PhD for his 40 years in child & adolescent health research February 28, 2013 Brought to you by the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living and The University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus www.msdcenter.org
2013 HONOREE Dr. Guy S. Parcel Guy S. Parcel, PhD Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences and Former Dean The University of Texas School of Public Health Guy Parcel s work has substantially impacted the field of public health and the lives of children internationally. For 36 years, Dr. Parcel has worked within The University of Texas System as a teacher, researcher, author, mentor, administrator, and as Dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH), headquartered in Houston. Dr. Parcel was instrumental in founding the Austin Regional Campus of UTSPH where he is currently Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. He has directed National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded research projects to develop and evaluate programs that address sexual risk behavior in adolescents, diet and physical activity in children, smoking prevention in adolescents, and self-management of childhood chronic diseases including asthma and cystic fibrosis. Together with colleagues Drs. Kay Bartholomew and Gerjo Kok, Dr. Parcel developed the process of health promotion planning known as Intervention Mapping which has become the international gold standard for public health intervention research. Dr. Parcel s body of work and many accomplishments are worthy of honor in and of themselves, but The Guy Parcel Recognition Celebration is an appreciation of his exponential impact on public health due to his collaborations with world-class researchers and his teaching and mentoring of the next generation of leaders in public health. Dr. Parcel exemplifies the quote from the American writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, The teacher is one who made two ideas grow where only one grew before.
PAST AWARDEES 2012: J. David Hawkins, PhD Founding Director, Social Development Research Group University of Washington, Seattle 2011: Russell Pate, PhD Director, Children s Physical Activity Research Group University of South Carolina 2010: Kelly Brownell, PhD Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity Yale University 2009: Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2008: William Bill Dietz, MD, PhD Director, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007: Mary Story, PhD, RD Director, Healthy Eating Research University of Minnesota
PROGRAM Welcome Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RD, LD Director, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion The University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus Introduction of Speakers Cheryl Perry, PhD Professor and Regional Dean The Rockwell Distinguished Chair in Society and Health The University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus Social Influences on Adolescent Health Behaviors Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH Senior Investigator & Chief of the Prevention Research Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Integrating Social and Emotional Contexts in Predicting Adolescent and Young Adult Smoking Patterns Robin Mermelstein, PhD Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy University of Illinois at Chicago Intermission (30 minutes)
Introduction of Speakers PROGRAM (cont d) Steven Kelder, PhD, MPH Co-Director, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living Beth Toby Grossman Distinguished Professor The University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus Next Steps in Obesity Prevention Phil Nader, MD Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics University of California at San Diego Intervention Mapping: Bridging Theory and Practice in Health Promotion Kay Bartholomew, EdD, MPH Associate Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences Associate Dean for Academic Affairs The University of Texas School of Public Health Award Presentation Guy S. Parcel, PhD Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences and Former Dean The University of Texas School of Public Health Closing Remarks Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RD, LD www.msdcenter.org
Dr. Bruce Simons-Morton Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH Senior Investigator & Chief of the Prevention Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1:15-2:00 PM Bruce Simons-Morton is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Prevention Research Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where he directs a program of research on child and adolescent health behavior. His current research focuses on social influences on adolescent health and problem behavior and the causes and prevention of motor vehicles crashes among novice young drivers. Dr. Simons-Morton is the author of more than 160 scientific papers, three books, and 20 book chapters. His latest book, Behavioral Science Theory and Health Promotion: Multi-level Applicatioins, was published by Jones and Bartlett in 2011. Over the past ten years his research has examined many aspects of teenage driving. His group developed and evaluated in a series of randomized trials the Checkpoints Program, designed to increase parental management of novice teenage driving. Other research has examined the effects of peer influence on adolescent risk behavior, including substance use, aggression and misconduct, and school engagement. This research demonstrated not only the consistency of peer influence, but also the interaction of selection and socialization influences. Dr. Simons-Morton has won several awards including the National Institutes of Health Director s Award for research on young drivers (2010), NIH Diversity Council Recognition Award (2008), and Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa School of Public Health (2007). He has served on a number of national planning committees including the Transportation Research Board (National Academies of Science) Young Driver Workshop, Theory and the young driver where he was the chair.
Dr. Robin Mermelstein Robin Mermelstein, PhD Professor of Psychology & Director, Institute for Health Research & Policy University of Illinois at Chicago 2:10-2:55 PM Robin Mermelstein is Director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Professor in the Department of Psychology, Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences, and Co-Director of UIC s Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences. Dr. Mermelstein has been active in health-behavior related research for over 25 years, with continuous National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding as a Principal Investigator on grants since 1986. She is nationally recognized for her expertise in understanding trajectories and developmental patterns of youth smoking, for employing novel approaches to studying contextual factors in the development of nicotine dependence, for developing innovative health behavior clinical interventions for adolescents and adults, and for methodological issues in conducting tobacco-related research. Dr. Mermelstein is currently the Principal Investigator on a National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded program project grant, Social and Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns, which will provide an in-depth, multi-level study of the patterns and predictors of adolescent and young adult smoking and the development of dependence, as well as the Principal Investigator on two other R01 grants from the NCI. Dr. Mermelstein has served on several Scientific Advisory Committees for national boards and university-based research centers and institutes, along with serving on many NIH review committees. In addition to her own funded research, Dr. Mermelstein has been an active mentor for many graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, and in 2006 received the Society of Behavioral Medicine s Clinical Mentor Award.
Dr. Phil Nader Phil Nader, MD Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego 3:30-4:15 PM Phil Nader, a behavioral pediatrician, has been engaged in research in children s activity and nutrition, and the influence of families, schools, and communities on child health since the early 1970 s. Dr. Nader has led and participated in several multi-disciplinary teams including the Studies of Child Activity and Nutrition, the Family Health Project, the Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH), and the NICHD Studies of Early Child Care and Youth Development. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University s Institute for Communication Research, an Office of UC President s Pacific Rim Studies investigator on Indigenous Health, a Distinguished Wellness Lecturer, University of California, a Fogarty International Fellow in New Zealand and Australia, a Visiting Faculty at Beijing School of Public Health, a Visiting Lecturer at the Japan School Health Association, the Anne B. Cumming Lectureship, Australasian College of Physicians, and served as President of the American School Health Association, and President of the Academic Pediatric Association. He continues his community engagement with the San Diego Healthy Weight Collaborative and the San Diego Childhood Obesity Initiative. He received San Diego s Community Health Improvement Partners Public Health Champion Award. Dr. Nader has over 200 published academic articles, the most recent in 2012 calling for utilizing interacting community systems to promote healthy weight among young families, pregnant and inter-conceptual women, infants and toddlers. He published a book for parents, titled A Legacy of Health: You Can Prevent Childhood Obesity. It is available in English and Spanish, and accompanies a facilitated curriculum to implement a simultaneous place-based health promotion and environmental and policy intervention for a defined community to consider adopting.
Dr. Kay Bartholomew Kay Bartholomew, EdD, MPH Associate Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The University of Texas School of Public Health 4:25-5:10 PM Kay Bartholomew has been interested in development, dissemination and implementation of health promotion intervention throughout her career. She worked for 15 years as a practitioner as director of health education at Texas Children s Hospital; and she has now been in academics for about the same amount of time. She has a unique perspective on the implementation of health promotion. Dr. Bartholomew received her MPH degree from The University of Texas School of Public Health and an EdD degree in educational psychology from the University of Houston College of Education. Dr. Bartholomew s research interest is in the self-management of chronic diseases and cancer. Her textbook on intervention development and evaluation, Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Intervention Mapping Approach (Bartholomew L.K., Parcel, G.S., Kok, G, Gottlieb, N., Fernandez, M.E.), grew out of her dual practice and research perspective. In the third edition of the book, she developed a chapter on adaptation of effective interventions, and is currently working to implement a feasible program adaption process with several community agencies in Houston. Furthermore, the intervention mapping process, including its use for adaptation, underlies a recently funded dissemination project to help community cancer control practitioners choose, adopt, adapt, implement, and evaluate interventions. Dr. Bartholomew is currently working on a proposal to disseminate screening interventions among cancer survivors in Texas.
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