Society of Behavioral Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

 描述(申请人提供)：行为医学学会(SBM)将于2016年3月30日至4月2日在华盛顿特区举行第37届年会和科学会议。SBM是美国领先的多学科组织，致力于行为医学，代表了来自20多个学科的2000多名行为和生物医学研究人员和临床医生。行为医学是一个跨学科的领域，研究人员、实践者、教育者和政策制定者专注于发展和整合与健康和疾病理解相关的行为、心理社会和生物医学理论、知识和干预措施。行为医学专业人士包括心理学家、内科医生、护士、流行病学家和公共卫生专家。他们致力于了解、预防和治疗慢性疾病，如心血管疾病、糖尿病和癌症。他们进行研究，并将研究结果转化为现实世界的环境，以改善个人、家庭和整个社区的生活。SBM对行为、生物和环境相互作用的关注与国家心肺和血液研究所的使命密切相关。SBM的年度会议代表着专门致力于行为医学的最大的年度科学会议；它们被视为该领域最重要和最有影响力的研究和实践的主要论坛。一年一度的会议召集了研究人员和实践者，创建了一个论坛，与会者可以在其中交流知识，以更好地了解如何改变行为。然后，与会者可以将这些知识应用于多种疾病的预防和管理或改善多种健康结果。2016年SBM年会估计将有1600人参加，并将有1300多个演讲。会议的主题是“十字路口的行为医学：21世纪的挑战和解决方案”。因此，它将突出该领域的各种变化驱动因素(例如，医疗保健改革、技术进步、资金格局变化)，并将展示该领域如何适应，以确保行为医学研究继续转化为有效的、基于证据的干预措施，从而导致疾病的预防、诊断和治疗。会议还将拓宽与会者对他们的研究、他们的职业和行为医学翻译的看法。本申请寻求资金支持SBM 2016年会，用于满足以下具体目标的规划：(1)确定新的机会，将行为医学研究转化为基于证据的方法和干预措施，以改善个人和人群健康；以及(2)通过为参加2016 SBM年会的学员、临床医生、研究人员和其他专业人员提供指导和专业发展，扩大行为医学研究和实践的影响-并增强行为医学专业人员的多样性。 叙述：行为医学会第37届年会和科学会议将于2016年3月30日至4月2日举行，将汇集全国领先的行为科学家、临床医生、教育工作者和政策制定者，交流关于健康和行为相互作用的新研究。通过广泛的科学陈述、讨论和教学研讨会，本次会议将促进人口水平、临床和实验研究的最新交流，以预防和治疗主要致病和死亡原因，目的是改善健康行为，减轻慢性病负担，提高我国的健康水平。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) will hold its 37th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Washington, DC. SBM is the nation's leading multidisciplinary organization dedicated to behavioral medicine, representing more than 2,000 behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians from more than 20 disciplines. Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field with researchers, practitioners, educators, and policymakers who focus on the development and integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical theory, knowledge, and interventions relevant to the understanding of health and illness. Behavioral medicine professionals include psychologists, physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, and public health experts. They work to understand, prevent, and treat chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. They conduct research and translate findings into real-world settings to improve the lives of individuals, families, and entire communities. SBM's focus on the interaction of behavior, biology, and environment is closely aligned with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's mission. SBM's annual meetings represent the largest yearly scientific sessions devoted exclusively to behavioral medicine; they are regarded as the premier forum for the field's most important and influential research and practice. The annual meeting convenes researchers and practitioners, creating a forum where attendees can exchange knowledge to better understand how to change behaviors. Attendees can then apply that knowledge to the prevention and management of multiple diseases or to the improvement of multiple health outcomes. The 2016 SBM Annual Meeting will be attended by an estimated 1,600 individuals and will feature more than 1,300 presentations. The theme for the meeting is "Behavioral Medicine at a Crossroads: 21st Century Challenges and Solutions." As such, it will highlight various drivers of change in the field (e.g., health care reform, technological advancements, funding landscape changes) and will show how the field can adapt to ensure behavioral medicine research continues being translated into effective, evidence-based interventions that lead to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. The meeting will also broaden how attendees think about their research, their careers, and the translation of behavioral medicine. This application seeks funding in support of SBM's 2016 Annual Meeting, for programming that addresses the following specific aims: (1) to identify new opportunities for translating behavioral medicine research into evidence-based approaches and interventions that improve individual and population health; and (2) to broaden the impact of behavioral medicine research and practice-and to enhance the diversity of behavioral medicine professionals-by providing mentoring and professional development of trainees, clinicians, researchers, and other professionals who attend the 2016 SBM Annual Meeting. Narrative: The Society of Behavioral Medicine's 37thAnnual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, to be held from March 30 to April 2, 2016, will bring together the nation's leading behavioral scientists clinicians, educators, and policymakers to exchange new research on the interactions of health and behavior. Through a broad range of scientific presentations, discussions, and didactic workshops, this conference will facilitate the exchange of the latest population‐level, clinic‐based, and experimental research on the prevention and treatment of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, with the goal of improving health behaviors, reducing the burden of chronic disease, and improving our nation's health.