The
first International Conference on "Behavioral Medicine
in the New Millennium: The Mind - the Brain and Behaviour
in Common Public Health Problems" was organized by Thai
Forum of Behavioral Medicine in collaboration with The International
Society of Behavioural Medicine, the National Institute for
Child and Family Development, and Neuro-Behavioural Biology
Center, Institute of Science and Technology for Research and
Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakornpathom, Thailand
between April 30 - May 2, 2000 at the Siam City Hotel, Bangkok.
The conference was initiated by ideas from Professor Holger
Ursin, President of Norwegian Society of Behavioral Medicine
and Chairperson of the ISBM International Collaboration Committee
and supported by Professor Neil Schneiderman, Past President
of ISBM and Professor Brian Oldenburg, President of ISBM.
Approximately 200 people from Thailand, China, Sri Lanka,
Norway, New Zealand, and USA attended the three day Conference.
The international faculty included Hege R. Eriksen, PhD and
Holger Ursin, MD from Norway, Rona Moss-Morris, PhD and Keith
J. Petrie, PhD from New Zealand and Neil Schneiderman, PhD
and Redford B. Williams, Jr., MD and Virginia Williams Ph.D.
from the United States. Each gave 4-5 plenary talks and 1-2
workshops over periods of three days conference and two days
post-conference workshop. Topics included: international behavioral
medicine and public health; subjective health complaints;
coronary heart disease and rehabilitation; chronic fatigue
syndrome; HIV/AIDS; and psychosocial risk factors and bio-behavioral
mechanisms in chronic disease. During the Conference, attempted
were made to cover full spectrum of behavioural medicine from
prevention, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation
issues. Two former Ministers of Public Health for Thailand
inaugurated and addressed the Conference. The Dean of the
Faculty of Medicine and two former Deans of the Faculty of
Public Health and a former director of Siriraj Hospital at
Mahidol University gave plenary lectures and chaired conference
sessions. Also presenting plenary lectures were the country
program manager of the WHO joint collaboration with Thailand,
the Head of the Department of Pediatrics, and the CEO of Theptarin
Hospital in Bangkok. Their topics included: current issues
in health behavior and health promotion in Thailand; sexually
transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and behavioral medicine in
Thailand; behavioral aspects of health in children and adolescents;
drug and substance abuse issues in Thailand; behavior modification
for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes; sleep and its impact
on health and disease; and strategies to stop cigarette smoking
in Thailand. In addition, there were satellite luncheon symposia
on: sleep, insomnia and management of insomnia; and senile
dementia and Alzheimer s disease. (For full summary see Behavioural
Medicine in Thailand by Neil Schneiderman, Past President
of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine at www.isbm.miami.edu)
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The
Post-Conference Intensive Training Workshop "Perspectives
and Research Methodology for Behavioural Medicine"
was organized at the Main Auditorium 3rd Floor National
Institute for Child and Family Development, Mahidol University,
Salaya, Nakornpathom Thailand between May 3 - 4, 2001. Approximately
100 participants attended the workshop, which provided good
opportunities for young investigators and researchers to
meet with experts in various areas of behavioural medicine.
Workshop topics included: An Overview on Behavioural Medicine
by Neil Schneiderman; Behavioural Medicine: the new area
after psychosomatic medicine by Holger Ursin; Stress and
Cognitive Arousal Theory of Stress by Hege Eriksen; The
Psychology in Psychoneuroendocrinology by Holger Ursin;
Psychoneuroimmunology and Psychoneuroendocrinology in HIV/AIDS
by Neil Schneiderman; Psychoendocrinology, Aggression and
Social Status by Redford B. Williams, Jr.; Illness Perceptions:
How Do They Improve Our Understanding of the Responses to
Illness and Treatment? by Keith James Petrie; Subjective
Health Complaints: Epidemiology and Treatment by Hege Eriksen;
Psychological Factors Affecting Adherence to Medication
Regimes by Rona Moss-Morris; Matching methodologies to research
questions in health psychology and behavioral medicine by
Rona Moss-Morris; Randomized controlled clinical trials
by Hege Eriksen; The placebo effect by Keith James Petrie;
Psychosocial Factors in primary and secondary prevention
of Coronary Heart Diseases by Neil Schneiderman; Research
Models of Serotonin and Behaviour by Redford B. Williams,
Jr.; Low back pain: prognosis and treatment and Effects
of Interventions to improve health in working life by Hege
Eriksen and Holger Ursin; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Cognitive
behavioural models and treatment for functional somatic
syndromes by Rona Moss-Morris; Social Support and Health
by Keith James Petrie; Psychoendocrinology of aggression
and social dominance by Holger Ursin and Redford B. Williams,
Jr.; and Do psychosocial interventions improve clinical
outcomes in organic disease?, Psychosocial risk factors,
biobehavioral mechanisms, and interventions by Neil Schneiderman
and Redford B. Williams, Jr.
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The
Second International Conference "Behavioral Medicine:
Stress: Impacts on Health, Illness, Disease and Quality of
Life" organized by Thai Society of Behavioral Medicine
(TSBM) in collaboration with The College of Family Physicians
of Thailand, The National Institute for Child and Family Development,
and Neuro-Behavioural Biology Center, Institute of Science
and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University,
Salaya, Nakornpathom, Thailand between July 22nd - 23rd, 2002,
at the Siam City Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Approximately 100
people attended the two days conference and Annual Business
and Member Meeting, and the evening reception of TSBM. Two
former Ministers of Health, Professor Dr. Sem Pringpuangkaew
and Professor Dr. Udomsilpa Srisaengnam, and Dr. Visal Yawapongsiri,
President of the College of Family Medicine inaugurated and
addressed the opening. They also gave plenary lectures and
chaired scientific session and symposia. Conference topics
included: Stresses in Thai Society and Impacts on Quality
of Life by Debhanom Muangman, Stress, Impacts on Health, Illness,
and Diseases by Holger Ursin; Psychological Influences on
Immune Function: How Stress Influences wound Healing, emotional
Expression and Immune Responses by Keith James Petrie; Recent
update on Neuro-biological Mechanisms of Anxiety and Stress:
Implications for Health Behavior, Illness, Diseases and Quality
of Life by Naiphinich Kotchabhakdi; Sensitization, Somatization,
and Subjective Health Complaints by Holger Ursin; Stress and
Subjective Health Complaints in Thai Children and How Children
react and response to stress by Nittaya J. Kotchabhakdi; Workshop
on Stress Management chaired by Udomsilpa Srisaengnam and
Holger Ursin; Update on Low Back Pain and Management in Thailand
and Behavioural Rehabilitation of Cardiac Patients by Visal
Kantaratanakul; Update on Stress and Low Back Pain in Norway:
Prognosis and Treatment and Effects of Interventions to Improve
Health in Working Life by Holger Ursin; Symposium on Stress,
Illness and Diseases chaired by Sunthorn Tantananda; Symptom
Recognition and Delay in Seeking Treatment in Myocardial Infarction
and Breast Cancer by Keith James Petrie; Luncheon Debate on
"Western evidence and theory and evidence for behavioural
medicine interventions is relevant to developing countries
and societies in transition" by Holger Ursin and Debhanom
Muangman was chaired by Sem Pringpuangkaew; Symposium on Sleep,
Health and Diseases, Sleep and its impacts on Health and Diseases
by Naiphinich Kotchabhakdi; Insomnia and Management of Insomnia
by Pichet Udomratn; Sleep Apnea and Sleep Breathing Disorders
by Wiwat Tangaksorn; and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
by Aroonwan Preutthipan.
Third
Annual International Conference of TSBM on "Behavioural
Medicine and Health Promotion" which will be held jointly
with the First Asian Regional Conference of Behavioral Medicine
and the Meeting of the ISBM Executive Committee and Governing
Council at the Siam City Hotel in Bangkok between June 30
and July 4, 2003. The conference was organized by Thai Society
of Behavioral Medicine (TSBM) in collaboration with ISBM,
The College of Family Physicians of Thailand, The National
Institute for Child and Family Development, and Neuro-Behavioural
Biology Center, Institute of Science and Technology for Research
and Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakornpathom,
Thailand (for detail see http://neuroscience.mahidol.ac.th/3tsbm
)
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