CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

 Conference Program for 2008

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. -  Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. -  Welcoming Remarks

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Reducing Health Disparities Through Family Intervention Research by: Hilda Pantin, Ph.D.; Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Families Studies at the University of Miami.

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. -  Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. -  Panel Discussion

11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -  SIRC Director's Report

12:15 to 1:15 - Luncheon and Awards

1:15 to 2:15 - Poster session and closing remarks

2:15 to 3:00 - Closing Remarks & Networking Reception - Entertainment by Dr. Teri Kennedy & Aisling West with special guest Abe Marcor

Poster Presentations:

Boehm-Smith, E., Chang, C., Winkler, A., Kellison, J., & Castro, F.G. Acculturation, leadership and other factors as predictors of resilience.

Chen, A., Gillmore, M.R., Hass, S., Perez, M.G., & Kopak, A. latent growth curb analysis of depressive symptoms among Mexican-American and Chinese-American youth 

Davis, O.I., Underwood, P., Welch, V.L., Marsiglia, F.F., Dustman, P., & McBride, D. CHOICES in health disparities: The Black church and ABC, Inc. target cardiovascular disease in African American communities.

Kellison, J., Johnston, A., Chang, C., Jelincic, A., Winkler, A., & Castro, F.G. Positive machismo attitudes as correlates of resilience in Hispanic populations.

Kulis, S.S., Marsiglia, F.F., Nieri, T., & Lee, C. A latent class analysis of acculturation in 5th grade Mexican-heritage children

Kulis, S.S., Marsiglia, F.F., & Nieri, T. Comparing effects of perceived ethnic discrimination and acculturation stress on substance use among Latino youth in the Southwest

Marsiglia, F.F., Kulis, S.S., Yabiku, S.T., Nieri, T., Parsai, M., & Becerra, D. Linguistic acculturation and initiation of substance use: Health disparities within Mexican/Mexican-American students. 

Marsiglia, F.F., Kulis, S.S., Parsai, M., Villar, P., Garcia, C., & Fitzharris, B. Overcoming risk factors for alcohol use: Family influences on Mexican-origin adolescents in Arizona

Marsiglia, F.F., Kulis, S.S., Garcia-Perez, M.H., & Nieri, T. Community, family stress, and self-reported health status among students in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Marsiglia, F.F., Dustman, P., & Taussig, M., keepin' it REAL: The role of school liaisons: The bridge between researcher and research participants.

McBride, D., & Marsiglia, F.F. Reducing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: An exploration of an intervention sponsored by Students for International Change.

Okamoto, S.K., Helm, S., Poa-Kekuawela, N., Chin, C.I.H., & Nebre, L.R. Community risk and resiliency factors related to drug use of rural Native Hawaiian youth: An exploratory study.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Pantin, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has had a distinguished career in her 17 years as a faculty member at the Center for Family Studies.  She is the Associate Director of the Center for Family Studies and the Director of the CFS Prevention Division.  She is the Principal Investigator of a $2.8 million, NIDA-funded research grant and has been Co-Principal Investigator of several other NIH-grants amounting to more than $10 million.  As Director of the CFS Prevention Division, she launched a systematic program of research for the prevention of problem behaviors in Hispanic adolescents.  Dr. Pantin is the clinical model developer of Familias Unidas, a very promising family-centered, ecodevelopmental intervention to prevent behavior problems (including conduct problems, drug abuse, HIV risky sexual behaviors) in Hispanic adolescents.  Dr. Pantin currently has over 40 scholarly publications including several that describe the Familias Unidas clinical model and/or the results of clinical trials documenting the efficacy of the Familias Unidas intervention.  Dr. Pantin was selected as the 2003 Winner of the Outstanding Research Publication Award by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and received the National Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the National Hispanic Science Network in 2005.  Dr. Pantin serves on the National Institute of Mental Health's Consortium on Family and HIV/AIDS, is a member of National Institute on Drug Abuse's National Hispanic Science Network and a member of the Society for Prevention Research.