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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.
December 12, 2008
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New Hope for Treatment of Addiction
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Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
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January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
February 9, 2009, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
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Ronald P. Abeles, Ph.D.
Special Assistant to the Director
Areas of Responsibility
- Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee
- Behavioral and Social Sciences Lecture Series
- Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Guide to NIH Grants (listserv)
- Mind-Body Interactions and Health Initiative
- Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials for Behavioral Interventions
Dr. Abeles is a Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research in the Office of the Director at the National
Institutes of Health. From 1994 to 1998, he served as the Associate
Director for Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging
(BSR/NIA).Previously he served at BSR/NIA as the Deputy Associate Director (1980-1991)
and Acting Associate Director (1991 to 1994). He received the National
Institutes of Health Award of Merit twice for “leadership and contributions to the
advancement of behavioral and social research on aging within the Federal
Government and nationally”' (1993) and for “exceptional leadership in advancing a
program of research to understand and apply knowledge about the relationship
between psychosocial factors and health” (2002).
Dr. Abeles has been instrumental in fostering behavioral and social research throughout
the National Institutes of Health. From 1980 to 1993 he served as the
Executive Secretary and Acting Chair of the ad hoc NIH Working Group
on Health and Behavior. From 1993 to the present he was first the Vice Chair and then the
Chair of the NIH Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee and then of its
successor, the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee.
The committee facilitates behavioral and social research across the NIH
and is an advisory group to the Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research,
NIH. For these activities, he received the NIH Director's Award in 1990.
From June, 1992 to October, 1994 he served as the Executive Secretary for the
Congressionally-mandated Task Force on Aging Research, which prepared recommendations
on aging-related research by federal agencies for submission to the Secretary,
DHHS, and the Congress. He was a founding member (since 1985) of the Advisory Panel
on Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Humanities for the Brookdale National
Fellowship Program in Gerontology, a founding member (1996) of and Senior Consultant
(1997-2006) to the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) of the German Center for Aging
Research (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Alternsforschung, Heidelberg), and was co-chair of the
German-American Academic Council's project on Gerontological Research in Germany
and the U.S.: Towards Intensified Cooperation and Future Strategies.
Dr. Abeles has held elected offices in the aging sections of the American Psychological
Association (APA) and the American Sociological Association (ASA). He was the
Chair (1999-2000) and newsletter editor (1988-2002) of the ASA's Section on
Aging and the Life Course. He was twice the Program Chair of the APA's Division (20) on Adult
Development and Aging (1990 and 2000) and was its President (2001-2002). He is a
Fellow of the APA, the American Psychological Society (APS), the Society of Behavioral
Medicine (SBM), and of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). In 2004
the American Psychological Association presented him with its Meritorious Research Service
Commendation, and APA Division 38 honored him with its Career Service to Health Psychology Award.
His 1971 doctoral degree in Social Psychology (with a minor in sociology) is
from the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. His experience as a Staff
Associate at the Social Science Research Council (1974-78) for the Committee
on Work and Personality in the Middle Years and the Committee on Life Course Development
stimulated his interest in life course issues. He has organized several symposia
at the annual meetings of professional societies, published chapters, and edited books
on various aspects of life-course and aging research, most frequently in regard to
the sense of control and to the interface between social structure and behavior. He
is the editor of Life-span Perspectives and Social Psychology (Erlbaum &
Associates, 1987), co-editor of Aging, Health, and Behavior (Sage Publications, 1993) and of
Aging and Quality of Life (Springer Publishing Company, 1994), and was an
associate editor of the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions (Van
Nostrand Reinhold, 1996, 2001 and 2006); and co-editor of Social Structure and Aging Individuals: Continuing Challenges (Singer Publishing Company, 2008).
Contact Details
Email: ronald_abeles@nih.gov
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