Graduate Student Achievements

Our Medical and Clinical Psychology graduate students are a remarkable group who already are making meaningful contributions to the scientific community as reflected by their presentations at professional meetings, scholarly publications, and work on funded grant applications. Recent examples of these activities are listed below.

Recent or Upcoming Scientific Presentations

Clark, R. D. Sbrocco, T., Hsiao, C. W., & Larco, D. (2010, August). Cognitive schemas, sexual functioning, and ethnicity among menopausal women. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Cofell, L.K., Hsiao, C., Lewis, E. L., & Sbrocco, T. (2009, April). Risk factors for short-term and long-term unhealthy weight loss behaviors in a U.S. Army sample. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), Montreal, Canada.

Ford, J., & Bowles, S. (2009, April). Perceived need for help seeking in deployed U.S. Navy personnel. Poster presented at the Uniformed Services University Annual Research Week.

Forde, J., Odensky, E., Martinez, S., Cinciripini, P., Wetter, D. W., Miller, E. K., Li, Y., & Waters, A. J. (2010, February). Effects of social desirability bias on self-report and implicit assessments during smoking cessation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Baltimore, MD.

Kochanski, K., Greene, F., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M. Cox, D., Sterling, G., George, B., Fritz, E., Lou, K., Martin, J. S. (2010, August). Expressed emotion as a theoretical model for understanding recurrence of suicide attempt behavior. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Martin, J. S., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M., Nademin, M., Olsen, C., Branlund, S., Englert, D., et al. (2010, April). Suicide in the United States Air Force: Relationship among marital status, life stressors and communication of distress. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, Orlando, FL.

Martin, J. S., Greene, F., Kochanski, K., Fritz, L., Sterling, G., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M. (2010, April). Helping services utilization prior to death in a sample of United States Air Force suicide decedents. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, Orlando, FL.

Rose, C.A., Long, S.M., & Grunberg, N.E. (2010, March). Housing alters body weight, food consumption, and activity in female adolescent rats. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of Society for Behavioral Medicine, Seattle, WA.

Ruscio, A.C., Waters, A.J., Reitzel, L.R., Cinciripini, P., Li, Y., Marcus, M., Vidrine, J.I., and Wetter, D.W. (2010, April). Mindfulness and tobacco dependence: Mediating mechanisms. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Seattle, WA.

Sterling, G., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M., Cox, D., Martin, J., Greene, F., Kochanski, K., George, B., Lou, K., & Fritz, E. (2010, August). Gender role strain and vulnerability of men to suicide behavior. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

Recent Publications

Addicot, A.K., Gray, J.J., & Todd, B.L. (2009). Mood, dietary restraint, and women's smoking and eating urges. Women & Health, 49(4), 310-320.

Calvio, L., Peugeot, M., Bruns, G.L., Todd, B.L., & Feuerstein, M. Measures of cognitive function and work in occupationally active breast cancer survivors. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 52(4), 219-227.

Cofell, L.K., Hsiao, C., & Sbrocco, T. (2009). Risk factors of short-term and long-term unhealthy weight loss behaviors in a U.S. Army sample. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37(Supplement 1), s152.

Martin, J. S., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M., Lou, K., & Tucciarone, P. (2009). A comparative review of U.S. military and civilian suicide behavior: Implications for OEF/OIF suicide prevention efforts. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 31, 101-118.

Whittaker, K.S., Krantz, D.S., Rutledge, T., Johnson, B.D., Bekkouche, N.S., Bittner, V., Eastwood, J., Etebia, W., Cornell, C.E., Pepine, C.J., Vido, D.A., Handberg, E.M., Merz, C.N.B. (2010). Psychosocial predictors of cardiovascular events in the WISE study. Published Abstract, Psychosomatic Medicine,72(3), A-75-76.

Funded Research

Awards

2010 Cinda Helke Travel Awards:

Contact Information

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799


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