Are you sick because you are depressed or are you depressed because you are sick? The answer is ‘yes’, for not only does mood impact the immune system, but the inner workings of the brain can be profoundly impacted by an active immune system. You are invited to become a charter member of the one of the most relevant annual symposiums ever offered to health care practitioners on the subject of mind and body. Frontiers in Psychoneuroimmunology 2008: The Emotional Interface, will bring together the nation’s top researchers who are examining the bi-directional pathways between the brain and immune system and the subsequent connections with health and disease. Topics will include all aspects of the field from stress and immunity to the global health implications of PNI research. Learn about the links between emotions and cancer, the involvement of the immune system in fibromyalgia, and the impact distress, sleep and fatigue have upon the immune system. You’ll also learn of exciting new research revealing that infection and inflammation can trigger changes in the brain—and significant behavioral and health consequences.

This symposium will provide what nurses and front-line health care providers have been asking for: a national symposium that begins with a full day pre-conference training program in meditation, before two days of evidence based research revealing the extensive links between the brain and immune system. This program will impact your own health as well as that of your patients and clients.

Nurses: NursingSpectrum is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity is for 5.5 contact hours.  

Nurses: The University of South Florida is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity is for 11.00 contact hours.

Psychologists: The University of South Florida College of Medicine is approved
by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The University of South Florida College of Medicine is offering this activity for up to 11.00 hours of continuing education credit.  The University of South Florida College of Medicine maintains responsibility for the program.

Florida Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Mental Health Counselors: The University of South Florida College of Public Health is an approved provider (BAP#433 – Exp. 3/31/09) of continuing education credits for clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling. This program has been reviewed and approved for up to 13, 50-minute contact hours. 

Pre Conference

8:00 AM – Noon
Registration

8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
The Healing Power of Meditation ™: Stress Reduction through Focused Awareness
Meditation is now becoming one of the fastest growing tools for stress reduction and self-healing. Dr. Susan Taylor will bring together Eastern and Western views of health and disease into a result oriented meditation/stress reduction training. Participants will learn basic techniques that can be incorporated into western protocols and will discover how to bridge the gap between meditation practice and science. This course targets those who want to learn the science of meditation as a stress reduction model to enhance their professional practice. The techniques learned may be used to augment the participants’ own health, and serve as a resource to establish programs for patients at hospitals and other health care facilities.
Susan Taylor, PhD

Main Conference

Noon– 6:00 PM
Registration and Check-in

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:30 – 9:00 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00 AM - Noon
Immune Disruptive Emotions

Your genetic blueprint, and biological systems are major determinants of health. So are your mood and a stressful environment. This session will review the latest research linking the emotions connected with stress with your ability to fend off illness. It will also provide insights regarding the critical roles played by personality, mood, and social status.

• Emotion Induced Immune System Dysregulation
  Ronald Glaser, MD
• Personality, Health, and Immunity: Social Status and Serotonin
  John Capitanio, PhD
• Hostility as a Driver of Inflammation
  Anna Marsland, PhD, RN

Roundtable Discussion with Audience

Noon – 1:30 PM
Lunch (provided)

1:30 - 4:00 PM
The Immune System, Pain and Depression

Activation of some white cells can set the stage for pain related disorders, as well as severe depression.  This session will explore the association between cytokines and fibromyalgia, PTSD, depression, and suicide.

• Immune System Involvement in Fibromyalgia and Metabolic Syndrome
  Chris Coe, PhD
• PTSD, Emotions, and the Immune System
  Maureen Groer, PhD, RN
• The Immunological Basis of Depression and Suicide
  Teodor Postolache, MD
• Allergic Inflammation, Depression and Suicide
  Teodor Postolache, MD

Roundtable Discussion with Audience

5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Poolside Reception and Dinner
Keynote Speaker – Peter Bourne, MD
Public and World Health Implications of Psychoneuroimmunology

7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Continental Breakfast, Registration

9:00 AM – Noon
Emotions and Cancer/HIV

Stress-induced emotions and how they are coped with can exert a profound influence
upon the immune system, as well as upon the progression of cancer and HIV. The critical impact of emotional distress, its effects upon sleep, and how emotional dysregulation is paralleled by immunological and physiological imbalance will be described during this session.

• Effects of Stress Management on Adjustment and Health in HIV and Cancer: Psychosocial and Biobehavioral Mechanisms
  Michael H. Antoni, Ph.D
• Sleep, Fatigue, and Immunity Following Acute Emotional Distress in Healthy Women at Risk for Breast Cancer
  Dana Bovbjerg, PhD
• Emotional, Immunological, and Physiological Dysregulation and HIV Progression
  Lydia Temoshok, PhD

Roundtable Discussion with Audience

Noon – 1:30 PM
Lunch (provided)

1:30 – 4:00 PM
Recognizing and Coping with Emotions

What appears to matter in terms of the psychosocial adaptiveness and health consequences of emotion is not whether a specific emotion is “positive” or “negative,” but rather, the appropriateness of its self-signaling and outward expression. This session will review the recognition of emotions, their management, and how cutting-edge interventions may affect intrapersonal functioning, interpersonal relationships, and physical performance.

• Emotion Recognition and Expression Intervention/ Training
  Margaret Kemeny, PhD
• Managing Anger and Sustaining Optimism
  Sandra Thomas, PhD, RN
• Emotions and Performance
  Nick Hall, PhD

Roundtable Discussion with Audience

7:00 AM – Noon
Experiential options for coping with emotional distress.
Discounted fees will be available for the Saddlebrook Executive Challenge Course, Spa, and Fitness center. 

Noon
Check Out and Departure

Peter Bourne, MD, MA
Visiting Scholar
Green College, Oxford
Vice Chancellor Emeritus
St. George’s University
Grenada, West Indies
Chairman of the Board
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
Washington, DC

Dana Bovbjerg, PhD 
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Director, Biobehavioral Medicine Program
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute           
Pittsburgh, PA

John Capitanio, PhD 
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Chris Coe, PhD         
W.B. Cannon Professor
Director, Harlow Center for Biological Psychology       
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Ronald Glaser, MD
Director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
Gilbert and Kathryn Mitchell Chair in Medicine,
Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
Ohio State University   
Columbus, OH

Maureen Groer, RN, PhD, FAAN   
Director for the Center for Women's Health Research
Professor, University of South Florida
College of Nursing
Tampa, FL

Nick Hall, PhD          
Professor and Director of the Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
College of Nursing,
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Margaret Kemeny, PhD
Director of the Health Psychology Program
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Anna L. Marsland, PhD, RN           
Associate Professor of Psychology, Nursing, and Psychiatry     
Behavioral Immunology Laboratory
Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Susan Taylor, PhD    
Director of Educational Programs
Founder of the Center for Meditation Science. 
Newburyport, MA

Teodor Postolache, MD                   
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Mood and Anxiety Program  
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Lydia Temoshok, PhD                      
Director of Behavioral Medicine Program
Institute of Human Virology
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
University of Maryland Baltimore County         
Baltimore, MD

Sandra Thomas, RN, PhD, FAAN   
Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Nursing
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

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