Meeting

UK Society for Behavioural Medicine 4th Annual Scientific Meeting

Incorporating the National Prevention Research Initiative (NPRI) Annual Scientific Meeting

University of Exeter - 6th / 7th January 2009

Keynote speakers

Prof Mike Kelly, Dr Gillian Leng, National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence: Health behaviour and the role of NICE.

Dr Elizabeth Murray, University College London E-Health Unit: Using the internet for behaviour change.

Prof David Armstrong, King’s College London School of Medicine: The science of behaviour (change). 

Workshops will include Willem Kuyken on mindfulness based therapies and Tom Lynch on the use of virtual reality tools in behavioural research.

Call for Abstracts: Abstracts are invited for workshops, structured discussions and oral or poster presentations. Proposal forms are available here.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 6th June 2008.  Preference will be given to abstracts which cite results (or for those where authors will be in a position to update abstracts with results by the time of the conference).

We are also seeking proposals for workshops, or structured discussions of 90 minutes duration. All workshop and discussion proposals should include an interactive component and the definitions and criteria for submission are detailed on the proposal form.  The deadline for submission of proposals is Friday 6th June 2008. 

Please feel free to download and distribute the conference flyer.

We are inviting clinical practitioners, public health physicians, epidemiologists, health psychologists, medical sociologists, health economists, statisticians, nurses and all others interested in behavioural medicine to participate.