Johns Hopkins University - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Classroom Changes

Due to the Alumni Relations Homecoming events, the classes that are scheduled to meet in the following Hodson Hall classrooms will be relocated on Friday, April 11th to the following assigned spaces and will resume their normal schedule on the next class meeting.

Hodson 110
200.133.01 Remsen 1 11am - 11:50am

Hodson 210
200.680.01 Hodson 203 12pm - 12:50pm
200.376.01 Mergenthaler 111 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Call for Conference Posters
Deadline for Student and Fellow Poster Submissions: March 15, 2008

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Second Annual Conference for the Dissemination of Student Research on Addictions, Infectious Disease, and Public Health

Bloomberg School of Public Health
Wolfe Street Building, Baltimore, Maryland, April 21, 2008

Co-Sponsors at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
Dean’s Office
Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program
Behavioral Pharmacology Training Program (Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital)
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society
Department of Mental Health
Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health

Keynote Speaker

Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Conference Aim:

The primary aims of the conference are to provide students and fellows (undergrad, grad, pre-doctoral, and post-doctoral) in public health and allied health fields with opportunities to:

1. Disseminate student and fellow research findings at low or no cost;

2. Network with other students, fellows, faculty, and community-based providers and agencies; and

3. Network with program staff of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Conference Format:

The one-day conference will be held on April 21, 2008 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The conference format will include three invited lecturers followed by break-out sessions with NIDA program staff and concluding with a poster session of student and fellow research. We are pleased to have Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), as the Keynote Speaker at our second annual conference. Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a disease of the human brain. As a research psychiatrist and scientist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects of drugs and their addictive properties.

Conference Focus:

The primary conference objective is to support student and fellow research dissemination. Posters of student and fellow research on a range of topic areas in public health, psychiatry, psychology, and allied health fields will be considered.

Conference topic areas include but are not limited to:

Epidemiology and prevention of drug dependence
Contingency management
Drug treatment
Drug effects on cognition
Psychiatric epidemiology
Epidemiology and prevention of infectious disease
HIV/AIDS
Hepatitis
Behavioral pharmacology
Abuse liability assessment
Psychopharmacology
Health disparities
Population and family health
Reproductive health

Instructions for Poster Submission:

Submit abstracts of student research via email to conference coordinator, April Lawson at alawson@jhsph.edu

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION – MARCH 15, 2008

Space is limited, abstracts will be considered upon submission.

1.   Abstract should include: Study Aim; Method; Results, Conclusion-Significance.
2.   Abstract length and style comparable to CPDD, SPR, APHA, APA abstracts.
3.   List all author names, first author will be responsible for presenting the poster at the designated session time.
4.   Students may submit up to two first-author abstracts.
5.   Faculty and research staff may submit one first-author abstract if the submission is co-authored by a student or fellow.
6.   Empirical reports are encouraged but theoretical papers/posters and reports of work in progress will also be considered.
7.   Submissions will be considered for poster presentations only (no oral sessions).

Conference Registration:

Fee if registered by April 4, 2008: None

On-site registration fee: $20.00

To register send the following via email to April Lawson at alawson@jhsph.edu

Name, degree, title, institution, status (i.e., undergraduate student, graduate student, post-doctoral student, fellow, faculty, specify any other status), mailing address, email, phone.

If registering on-site, the $20.00 fee should be made payable to Johns Hopkins University and presented at registration on the day of the conference, April 21, 2008.

* Complementary Continental Breakfast, Lunch, and Beverages will be served throughout the day


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