Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

描述（由申请人提供）：行为医学学会（SBM）将于2007年4月在佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩举行第28届年会。SBM是美国首屈一指的致力于行为医学的多学科组织，代表2,800多名行为和生物医学研究人员和临床医生，包括许多美国领先的癌症预防和控制研究人员。 SBM的年度会议代表了专门致力于行为医学的最大的年度科学会议，并被视为该领域最重要和最有影响力的研究和实践的论坛。 SBM的多学科成员提供了一系列专业知识，涵盖基础和生物行为机制，应用癌症筛查，健康传播和信息学，健康促进，流行病学，监测，卫生服务，癌症生存以及扩散和传播的研究。 SBM的研究人员，单独和与社区和政府机构的战略伙伴关系，正在努力解决健康的人2010年的关键优先领域。 每年SBM的年度计划中有相当大的一部分明确涉及癌症预防，检测，治疗和生存问题。 此外，该方案的很大一部分涵盖了与许多健康状况有关的跨领域问题（例如，坚持、将研究转化为实践、寿命、多样性/少数群体健康）。 SBM年会的主要目的是：1）为健康与行为相互作用的新研究和临床数据的交流提供一个论坛; 2）为改善健康的行为干预的最新进展提供深入的介绍; 3）增加研究人员和临床医生之间的科学交流; 4）解决行为医学在不断变化的医疗环境中的作用; 5）研究促进研究证据应用于临床实践和公共卫生计划的策略;和6）促进行为医学新的跨学科教育和培训工作的发展。 该提案寻求未来五年（2007-2011年）的资金，以实现癌症控制和人口科学司（DCCPS）通过发现、开发和实施创新和全面的癌症预防和控制战略来减轻癌症负担的广泛愿景。与NIH路线图的主要主题一致，赠款资金将使学会能够：1）招募杰出的基础科学家和信息学/技术专家，以解决行为医学中的新途径; 2）功能未来的研究团队正在开发和测试超越传统合作边界的跨学科团队科学的新模式;以及3）传播关于将科学发现转化为有意义的治疗和干预措施的有效合作伙伴关系的发现，并提供旨在培训下一代行为医学科学家的会议活动，以重振临床研究企业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) will hold its 28th annual meeting in April 2007 in Miami Beach, FL. SBM is the nation's premier multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to behavioral medicine, representing over 2,800 behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians including many of the nation's leading cancer prevention and control researchers. SBM's annual meetings represent the largest annual scientific sessions devoted exclusively to behavioral medicine, and are regarded as a forum for the field's most important and influential research and practice. The multidisciplinary membership of SBM provides a range of expertise that spans research in basic and biobehavioral mechanisms, applied cancer screening, health communication and informatics, health promotion, epidemiology, surveillance, health services, cancer survivorship, and diffusion and dissemination. SBM researchers, individually and in strategic partnerships with community and government agencies, are working to address key priority areas in Healthy People 2010. Each year a substantial proportion of SBM's annual program explicitly addresses cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survivorship issues. In addition, a large portion of program covers cross-cutting issues relevant to numerous health conditions (e.g., adherence, translation of research to practice, lifespan, diversity/minority health). The primary aims of SBM's annual meeting are: 1) To provide a forum for the exchange of new research and clinical data on the interactions of health and behavior; 2) To provide in-depth presentations on recent advances in behavioral interventions for health improvement; 3) To increase the scientific exchange between researchers and clinicians; 4) To address behavioral medicine's role in the changing health care environment; 5) To examine strategies for facilitating the application of research evidence to clinical practice and public health programs; and 6) To promote the development of new interdisciplinary education and training efforts in behavioral medicine. This proposal seeks funding for the next five years (2007-2011) for programming that addresses the broad vision of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) in reducing the burden of cancer through discovery, development, and delivery of innovative and comprehensive cancer prevention and control strategies. Consistent with the major themes of the NIH Roadmap, grant funds would enable the Society to: 1) recruit outstanding basic scientists and informatics/technology experts to address New Pathways to Discovery in behavioral medicine; 2) feature Research Teams of the Future that are developing and testing new models of transdisciplinary team science that extend beyond traditional boundaries of collaboration; and 3) disseminate findings about effective partnerships in translating scientific discoveries into meaningful treatments and interventions, and provide conference activities geared toward training the next generation of behavioral medicine scientists to Re-energize the Clinical Research Enterprise.