Q&A With Dr. Sean Young, Speaker for November 2 Integrative Medicine Lecture

On Tuesday, November 2 from 1–2 p.m. ET, Sean D. Young, Ph.D., will present “Reading Between the Tweets: Social Technologies for Predicting and Changing Health Behavior.” Dr. Young is the executive director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) and an associate professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Informatics (split appointment) at the University of California, Irvine. 

Know the Science of Complementary Health Approaches

Clinical Digest October 2021 Issue

It’s important for patients to know the science of health. As you know, there is a lot of misinformation circulating about health—from anecdotes disguised as evidence to excessive claims made by supplement manufacturers to TV doctors touting the latest “miracle cure.” Reliable health information is key to making good health decisions, but it can be difficult to tell the difference between facts and myths, particularly in the area of complementary and integrative health approaches.

Reading Between the Tweets: Social Technologies for Predicting and Changing Health Behavior

November 2, 2021 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. ET; Virtual

Sean D. Young, Ph.D., M.S.

Dr. Young will discuss how social technologies and data (e.g., artificial intelligence and data science modeling) are being used to impact public health, and how researchers and health departments/agencies might apply them in public health surveillance/intervention efforts. He will also present his team’s research on how these tools can be employed to predict and change health behaviors, and on implementation-related issues such as policy and ethical questions. 

December 15 Distinguished Lecture—"Mindfulness as a Support for Healing Conversations and Actions Toward Social Justice and Equity"

Save the date, December 15, 2021, for his year's Distinguished Lecture

Rhonda V. Magee, J.D., professor of law, long-time mindfulness teacher, scholar of contemplative education, and practitioner of mindfulness, will deliver the 2021 Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Therapies. Professor Magee will describe some of the research on how mindfulness has been shown to help us, for example, increase our emotional resilience; address fears, anxieties, and other emotions; choose how we will respond to injustice; and change unhelpful habits. She will also discuss an exciting new area of study: focusing on external mindfulness and its effects as individuals interact with others, their environments, and the array of challenges facing us all.