APS 76th Annual Scientific Meeting 2018

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Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 9:45 am - 10:40 am

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 10:50 am - 11:30 am

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 11:20 am - 12:35 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 11:45am - 1:00 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 10:15 am -11:15 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 11:20 am - 12:35 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:35 am - 11:50 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 4:35 pm - 5:50 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 2:25 pm - 3:25 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 11:20 am - 12:35 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 4:35 pm - 5:50 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 3:40 pm - 4:55 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 11:45am - 1:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 2:25 pm - 3:25 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 3:40 pm - 4:55 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 3:40 pm - 4:55 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:35 am - 11:50 am

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:35 am - 11:50 am

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 11:20 am - 12:35 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 2:25 pm - 3:25 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 11:45am - 1:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 3:40 pm - 4:55 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 4:35 pm - 5:50 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 4:35 pm - 5:50 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 3:40 pm - 4:55 pm

Friday, March 9, 2018 - 4:35 pm - 5:50 pm

Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 11:45am - 1:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 2:25 pm - 3:25 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:35 am - 11:50 am

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The program was relevant to my work.

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How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

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Objective 1: Discuss the construct of resilience and its relevance to Psychosomatic Medicine

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

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Objective 2: Identify psychosocial and behavioral factors connected to resilience

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: List the promises and pitfalls of resilience-oriented interventions to enhance or maintain physical health

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

to describe psychosocial resources that can reduce the mitigate some of the negative effects on interpersonal discrimination on mental health

to understand predictors of health-related resilience in low-income youth

to understand the role of inflammation in explaining socioeconomic status-health relationships

to consider the complex circuits that link the activity of areas of the cerebral cortex to the function of internal organs.o

to understand mechanisms linking psychological stress to disease

to understand how social relationships and socioeconomic status impact physical health

to better understand the processes by which people are resilient

to identify three health outcomes that are affected by insufficient sleep

to identify two biological pathways through which sleep may influence disease risk

to identify interventions to promote resilience and well-being, and whether these efforts are fruitful or misguided

to understand how rodent models can be used to establish mechanism ofÂ inter-individualÂ differences in stress-response

to understand the role of differential activation in a brain pathway in mediating the stress-response.

to gain an historical perspective on the concept of fatigue

to identify the pathways through which stress begets weight gain

to understand possible positive consequences of stress-induced eating

to describe early life risk factors for the development of obesity in children

to understand the racial/ethnic differences in pediatric obesity and obesity-related disease risk

to discuss important determinants of obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in Hispanic/Latino youth

to consider intervention strategies to mitigate intergroup disparities in health

to understand the advances in the stress biomarker field in relation to LGBT health and wellbeing over the last decade

Learn methods for designing interventions to increase adherence and retention

to describe health-protecting interventions to help children faced with extreme adversity

To identify barriers to health behavior adherence and to examine the links between psychological constructs and health behavior adherence in patients with New York Heart Association class II-II heart failure using qualitative interviews.

To investigate the clinical and cost effectiveness over 12 months of therapist delivered CBT (plus treatment as usual (TAU)), low intensity therapist guided web-based CBT (plus TAU) compared to TAU alone.

The objective of this study was to longitudinally examine the associations between egocentric social network change over time and physical, physiological, and mental health among cancer survivors and older adults without a history of cancer.

ToÂ evaluateÂ the extent to which depression, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and pain measured pre- and post-HSCT predict progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).

to learn about the hypothesis that a change in C-reactive protein (CRP) between hospital admission and 3-month follow-up is an independent predictor of ACS-triggered PTSS.

To examine how interpersonal processes affect cardiovascular reactivity and self-reported well-being in older couples coping with both partnersâ€™ health conditions.

The objective of this research is to identify a potentially modifiable biological pathway through which sleep may lead to depression during adolescence.Â

to identify DNA methylation sites that are associated with depressive symptoms using an unbiased epigenome-wide approach.

To investigate whether individuals change their health behaviours in response to diabetes diagnosis and whether changes are maintained over time.Â

To examine both linear and quadratic relationships between resting HRV and percieved ethnic discrimination

To explore HPA-axis and inflammatory responses to a provocative life stressor among individuals with a history of childhood trauma.

To investigate between- and within-person associations in psychological stress and cytomegalovirus antibody titers on T and NK cell immunosenescence in older adults.Â

To examine stressor diversity (extent to which stressors are spread across types) as a source of resilience in the face of high stressor exposure. Discuss inflammation associated with daily stressors across the life span.

To examine patient-reported causes of heart failure and their correlatesÂ

The objective of this research is to examine risk associations linking military and other lifetime stress exposures to current functioning and health-related quality of life in a study of 4219 Vietnam Era women veterans.

To determine the active components of mindfulness training for reducing stress reactivity.

To examine the relationship between reward-related brain function and peripheral inflammation among individuals at moderate versus heightened self-reported reward sensitivity.Â

to review the literature around psychological stress and mitochondrial biology. We also integrateÂ key elements of mitochondrial structure and function withÂ core concepts of psychosomatic medicine.

To examine the role of stress in relation to body mass and central adiposity in children at-risk for obesity.

To investigate associations among socioeconomic status, pre-pregnancy body mass index, and serum inflammatory markers in a diverse sample of pregnant women to determine whether maternal obesity plays a mediating role in the link between low socioeconomic status and inflammation during pregnancy.

To examine longitudinal changes in associations between laboratory and clinical pain.

To examine if the personality traits of neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience are related to all-cause mortality across a follow-up period of 19 years in a sample of very old adults.

To determine if physically active individuals exhibit less stressor-evoked cardiovascular reactivity in daily life than their sedentary counterparts.Â

To determine whether a central construct in positive psychology, namely, meaning in life, predicts survival.

To identify measures from electrophysiological recordings of sleep that distinguish resilient individuals from those with PTSD

To examine whether married spousesâ€™ anger-coping response styles are associated with increased risk for early mortality over a long-term follow up.

To assess hemodynamic reactivity to acute stress among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who live in high (vs. low) poverty neighborhoods.

To systematically quantify the association between emotional and physiological reactivity to social challenges. This investigation differentiates between parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system responses relevant to cardiovascular disease.

to understand models and methodologies linking personalities and health

To investigate the role ofÂ specific cortical structuresÂ in normalizing autonomic activity and test the hypothesis that abnormalities in these structures mayÂ impact on maintenance of entrenched psychological and behavioural symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

to understand the deficits observed in hippocampal neural metabolites in asthma and to explore how chonic inflammatory disease processes, asthma medication use, and health behaviors may influence these findings and potentially contribute to the increased risk ofÂ cognitive impairment observed in asthma. Â Â Â

to understand the effectiveness of serious gaming and verbal suggestions on food-related health outcomes.

Participants will learn basic principles of circadian rhythms and chronobiology; historical and recent approaches for detecting circadian rhythms; and, applied examples showcasing cosinor ;analysis of ambulatory data (heart rate, actigraphy)

To determine whether social support during midlife can mitigate the mortality risk associated with childhood abuse.Â

To investigate the personal and situational conditions under which up- and down-regulating negative emotions are associated with beneficial biobehavioral health outcomes. Specifically, this talk examines how individual differences in perceived stress reactivity, socioeconomic backgrounds, and parent-child relationships affect the adaptiveness of emotion regulation in a health context.

To explore whether passively sensed smartphone and wearable sensor data could be used to estimate daily stress and symptom burden during chemotherapy

To highlight how challenges that arise from the social environment for individuals from cultures that are stigmatized can have an impact on health. More specifically, the results will showÂ how acculturative stress and discrimination can influence birth outcomes and maternal cortisol trajectories during pregnancy in Mexican-American women

to understand Coanâ€™s (Beckes & Coan, 2011) Social Baseline Theory (SBT) with the primary goal of shedding light on the connection between close relationships and health through (automatic) affective experience

To present new findings on biobehavioral risk factors for cancer-related fatigue from two observational longitudinal studies of women with early-stage breast cancer

to understand the role of learning as a core mechanismen of placebo effects in pain

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To understand the longitudinal impact of daily painÂ catastrophizing on spousal caregivers well-being.

To demonstrated that bereavement is associated with profound physiological and immune dysregulation

The current analysis tests whether objectively assessed sleep relates to leukocyte telomere length attrition over 10 years in a multi-ethnic sample.

to examine the impact of caregiving quality on immune health in pre-adolescent children

To investigate whether synchrony-inflammation links are driven by post-conflict reactivity or emerge prior to conflict as well

ToÂ examine the association between child maltreatment and cardiometabolic health in young adulthood among men and women in a nationally representative study.

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Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):

Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?

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How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?

What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

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What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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