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ASPRID
The Australasian Society for Psychological Research In Diabetes



11th ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 2009
Proudly sponsored by Lilly, Australia

Adelaide Convention Centre

Monday 24th August 2009

ASPRID 2009

Program 

ImageProfessor Lenore Manderson

 

Invited Speaker 

Lenore Manderson is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on chronic illness, chronicity and disability, in Australia and a number of Southeast Asian settings, but in addition she works on gender and sexuality, infectious disease, and immigration and ethnicity, with populations in Australia and in Asia and Africa. From 2002-2007, she held an inaugural Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship at University of Melbourne and Monash University, and spent much of 2008 at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, as senior Hillel Friedland Fellow and Visiting Professor, working to strengthen higher degree training and to develop a PhD program in public health. She has trained over 100 higher degree students to graduation, has authored and edited 16 books and nearly 500 articles, book chapters, reports and monographs. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the World Academy of Art and Science.

 

Bill Polonsky

 

 

William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Behavioral Diabetes Institute, Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

Dr. William H. Polonsky received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University and has served as Chairman of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators, Senior Psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is an active researcher in the field of behavioral diabetes, a licensed clinical psychologist and certified diabetes educator. Dr. Polonsky has served on the editorial boards of numerous lay and professional journals in diabetes, including Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, Diabetes Forecast, Diabetes Self-Management and Diabetes Health.

ASPRID Program 2009

Meeting Rooms 8 & 9, Adelaide Convention Centre

 

09.00 AM         Registration                                                                                                       Foyer H

 

09.20 AM         Welcome                                                                                                


09.30 AM          Plenary Lecture                                                                                   

                        Psychological Diversity in Diabetes Management

                        Prof. Lenore Manderson

                        Monash University, Melbourne

 

10.45 AM         Morning Tea        Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms 8 & 9

 

11.15 AM         Oral Presentations                                                                                

               1       "Using the PAID scale to identify psychological distress: screening clients of three diabetes services".

                        L. Underwood          

                         "Findings of a prospective study comparing the impact of different modes of managing type 1 diabetes: Use of the PAID scale "

                        L. Engel

               3        Comparison of Illness Representations, Dimensions and Illness Representation Clusters in Predicting Outcomes in the First Year Following Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the DESMOND trial                                       

                        T. Skinner     

               4       Weight Matters

                        H. Edwards

                       

12.15 PM         Lunch                                                                                                     Exhibition Hall

 

1.15 PM           Under Development

                       

               1       A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing Patient and Family Needs for use in a Large Paediatric Diabetes Clinic

                        J. Delaney

               2       Barriers to Insulin Treatment (BIT) Questionnaire

                        D. Mapletoft

 

1.45PM            Panel

                         I Want to Screen for Psychological Problems in Diabetes – Which Psychometric measure should I use?

                        Lisa Engel

                        Lenore Manderson

                        Bill Polonsky

                        Leigh Underwood

 

3.15 PM           Afternoon Tea     Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms 8 & 9

 

3.45 PM            Stop Press in psychology                                                                   

                        L. Underwood

 

4.15 PM           Closing Comments & Evaluation

                       

4.00 PM           ASPRID 2009 Annual General Meeting

 

5.30 PM          CLOSE

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 
      

 

 

 

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