HDFS Grad Student Orientation-
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Wed, August 22nd
10-12pm

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Thursday, September 13, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones, Why We Get Hooked and How Mindfulness can Help Break the Habit Cycle."

**About the speaker**

Judson Brewer MD PhD is the Chief of the Division of Mindfulness, Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in medicine and psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He also is a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behavior change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (http://www.goeatrightnow.com, http://www.unwindinganxiety.com). He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and source-estimated EEG, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. Dr. Brewer's TED Talk TED was 4th most viewed talk of 2016 with over 9.5 million views.

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Rohner Center Faculty Affiliate Lecture Series

An Intergenerational Perspective on Father-Child Relationship Quality

Speaker: Kari Adamsons, PhD

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

1:00-2:00 p.m. (Seminar room 111, FSB)

Dwayne Proctor, Ph.D.,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Thursday, September 27, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Journey to Achieve Health Equity"

**About the Speaker**

Dwayne Proctor, Ph.D. is senior adviser to the president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Proctor came to RWJF in 2002 as a senior communications and program officer. His early work at RWJF focused on preventing adolescent and child health risks stemming from drinking, drugging, injuries and pregnancy. In 2006, Proctor was promoted to lead the Foundation’s highest priority--reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. In that capacity he leveraged resources by forging strong relationships with funders, government agencies, corporations and other key stakeholders. As senior adviser, Proctor builds new strategic relationships for RWJF and tracks the nation and the Foundation’s progress in achieving health equity. Prior to joining the Foundation, Proctor was assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine teaching health communications and health marketing. As a Fulbright Fellow in Senegal, West Africa, Proctor employed marketing, social science and epidemiological approaches to assess the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS public service announcements in raising awareness of AIDS as a national health problem.
Dr. Proctor is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the NAACP Foundation and an Ad Council advisor. He received his doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in marketing and communication science from the University of Connecticut.

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Visit our webpage to view the 2018-2019 InCHIP Lecture Series lineup, access the live web stream (when available), view the archives, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2018-2019-lecture-series/.