SciTS 2011 Conference: Sessions

Gabriele Bammer

Gabriele Bammer, Ph.D., is a professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University. She is also a research fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the convenor of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security’s Knowledge Integration research program. She is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences to improve research strengths for tackling complex real-world problems through synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, comprehensively understanding and managing unknowns and providing integrated research support for policy and practice change (see http://i2s.anu.edu.au). She is co-author of “Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods”, editor of “Dealing with Uncertainties in Policing Serious Crime” and co editor of “Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” and “Bridging the ‘Know-Do’ Gap: Knowledge Brokering to Improve Child Wellbeing”.

William Newell

William Newell, Ph.D., is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Western Program at Miami University, where he has taught interdisciplinary courses full time since 1974 and the senior project workshop almost exclusively since 1995. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in philosophy from Amherst College. Newell has edited two books and two special volumes of journals in interdisciplinary studies. He has published over 30 articles and chapters in interdisciplinary studies and has served as a consultant or external evaluator in interdisciplinary higher education well over 100 times. The founding president of the Association for Integrative Studies, he has served as secretary- treasurer and then as executive director since 1983.

Bonnie Spring

Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., earned her doctorate degree in psychology from Harvard University and is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of Behavioral Medicine, and Co-Program Leader in Cancer Prevention at Northwestern University. She is the Immediate Past President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) and recipient of SBM’s Distinguished Research Mentor award. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and holds the American Board of Professional Psychology's Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology. She is an advisory editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, and Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, founding editor for Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research, and serves on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Spring’s research career has been defined by a proclivity for posing questions whose answers require a multidisciplinary, team science approach. For example, she initiated and Chairs the NIH-funded Council for Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice (EBBP), whose members are experts in medicine, psychology, nursing, public health, nursing, and library sciences. The EBBP Council’s mission is to create training resources and tools that help bridge the gap between research and behavioral health practice at the individual and population levels. Funded continuously since 1976, her research intervening on behavioral risk factors (smoking, poor quality diet, physical inactivity, obesity) brings together collaborators in behavioral science, medicine, nutrition, kinesiology, engineering, economics, and social networks science. Within RTS, Dr. Spring is developing a series of online learning resources to help researchers conduct better team science. The learning modules will convey background knowledge about the science of team science, and will feature lessons learned from the experiences of successful basic, clinical and behavioral science research teams.

Daniel Stokols

Daniel Stokols is Chancellor’s Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Psychology and Social Behavior, and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology in the College of Health Sciences at UCI. Dr. Stokols earned his B.A. degree at the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Stokols is past President of the Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a Fellow of Divisions 9, 27, 34, and 38 within APA and of the American Psychological Society. He serves as a Section Editor of the American Journal of Health Promotion, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Environmental Psychology and the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. Dr. Stokols was recipient of the Annual Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association in 1991, the UC Irvine Lauds and Laurels Faculty Achievement Award and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research in 2003. His recent research has examined contextual factors that influence the success of transdisciplinary research and training programs. Additional areas of Dr. Stokols' research include the design and evaluation of community and worksite health promotion programs, the health and behavioral impacts of environmental stressors such as traffic congestion and overcrowding, and the application of environmental design research to urban planning and facilities design. Dr. Stokols currently serves as Scientific Consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, for the development and evaluation of NCI’s transdisciplinary research and training centers, and as a Team Science Evaluation Consultant for the National Academies of Sciences-Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI).