HAIRI  Brown  Bag    Meeting  Notes  January  23,  2015  

 1.  Intros    

• Introductions  by  attendees  (see  table  of  participants  below)    2.  Next  Meeting    

• Previous  suggested  date  was  March  13  but  that  is  just  before  Spring  Break  • New  meeting  set  for  April  3rd  (Friday  at  noon)    • Possible  topics:    “Biophilia”  discussion  (psychology  and  love  of  nature)  or  Panel  of  equine  therapy  

folks;  VOTE:  Equine  Panel  is  the  winner.    

3.  Website  • Working  hard  to  get  the  HAIRI  website  up  • be  on  the  look  out  for  email  for  your  bio  and  permission  to  list  you  

 4.  Research  

• Update  on  dog  study  -­‐  about  to  roll  it  out.  Still  waiting  on  IRB  approval.    • Update  on  the  equine/dog  and  autism  study-­‐    Looking  at  therapies  that  have  been  done  already  

and  the  design  of  various  studies.  Would  be  good  for  this  team  to  talk  to  the  pediatrics  folks.    They're  looking  at  it  if  their  (children  with  ASD)  social  interaction  change  when  a  dog  is  present.  Comparing  this  with  a  human  vs.  dog.  Collaborate  to  include  3rd  comparison  with  horse.  Great  opportunity  for  partnership!  

• “Animality”  -­‐  Are  there  animal  dimensions  in  human  personality  that  have  to  do  with  animal  relationships?  Data  analysis  on  undergrads...results  -­‐  predicted  that  interactions  with  animals  are  independent  of  one  another.    You  might  be  good  with  animals,  but  not  necessarily  with  people.        

5.  Funding-­‐  Looking  for  funding  for  all  things  HAIRI      6.  Presentation/Discussion  by  Emily  Cory  on  Raven  research  (photos  below)      Participants  Name   Department/Organization   Email  Jennifer  Andrews   Pediatrics;  working  with  Gina  Hansen  

(HSSA)  on  dogs  and  autism  jandrews@peds.arizona.edu  

Maureen  Kelly   Pediatrics;  also  works  with  kids  and  autism,  Rich  Wahl  asked  them  to  come  

mkelly@peds.arizona.edu  

Kim  Kelly   Anthropology  grad;  Psychiatry  researcher;  HAIRI  Coordinator  and  lead  researcher  on  dog  study  

kkelly@psychiatry.arizona.edu  

Julie  Davidson   Psychiatry;  helping  with  the  dog  study  

juliedavidson@psychiatry.arizona.edu  

Jim  King   retired  member  of  Pyschology   kingj@email.arizona.edu  Cindy  Chavarria   Psychology  undergrad;  HAIRI  

research  assistant  chavarriaminera@email.arizona.edu  

Sky  Sobol   Neuroscience  undergrad;  HAIRI  research  assistant  

skysobol@email.arizona.edu  

Emily  Walsh   PreVet  undergrad;  HAIRI  research  assistant  

emilybwalsh@email.arizona.edu  

Lizzie  Eadie   Anthropology;  Post-­‐doc  in  Stacey  Tecot’s  lab  

eeadie@email.arizona.edu  

Stacey  Tecot   Anthropology   stecot@email.arizona.edu  Emily  Cory   Psychology  grad;  raven  researcher   efc@email.arizona.edu  Peter  Fries   retired  from  linguistics/comm  

(snowbirds)  fries1ph@gmail.com  

Nan  Fries   retired  from  linguistics/comm  (snowbirds)  

fries1ph@gmail.com  

Dieter  Steklis   Co-­‐Chair  HAIRI,  primatologist,  Prof  UA  South  

steklis@arizona.edu  

Netzin  Steklis   Co-­‐Chair  HAIRI,  primatologist,  instructor  Family  Studies  and  Anthropology,  Psychology  grad  

nsteklis@arizona.edu  

Wendy  Davis   Animal  Sciences   wdavis@ag.arizona.edu  Richard  Whal   Pediatrics  and  adolescent  medicine          Additional  contact:      Sydney  Rice   Dev  Beh  Ped/Autism  (not  present  but    

part  of  the  group)  srice@peds.arizona.edu  

 Photos  of  Emily  Cory,  Shade  (raven),  and  participants