http://www.isbm.info/

ISBM is a Federation of national or regionally-based societies, whose goal is to serve the needs of all health-related disciplines concerned with issues relevant to behavioural medicine. Each national society must have membership from different relevant disciplines or professions.

Behavioural medicine is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of sociocultural, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to disease prevention, health promotion, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. 

ISBM Charter

What is the International Society of Behavioral

Medicine (ISBM)?

Brian Oldenburg Chair, Strategic Planning Committee

Theresa Marteau Chair, Program Committee

Graciela Rodriguez Chair, Organisational Liaison Committee

GovernanceExecutive Committee

Antti UutelaPast President

Hege R. EriksenPresident Elect

Redford WilliamsPresident

Petra LindforsTreasurer

Marc GellmanSecretary

Board MembersRedford Williams President

Antti Uutela Immediate-Past President

Hege R. Eriksen President-Elect

Petra Lindfors Treasurer

Marc Gellman Secretary

Victoria Gordillo Chair, Education & Training Committee

Richard Peter Chair, Communications Committee

Linda Baumann Chair, Finance Committee

Norito Kawakami Chair, International Collaborative Studies Committee

Joost Dekker Editor, International Journal of Behavioural Medicine

Neil Schneiderman Chair, Membership Committee

Arja Aro Chair, Strategic Planning Committee

Member Societies

Europe

North America

Asia / Pacific

South America

Member SocietiesNorth America• Academy of Behavioural Medicine Research• American Psychosomatic Society• Society of Behavioural Medicine

Latin America• The Chilean Society of Behavioural Medicine• Mexican Society of Behavioural Medicine• Venezuelan Interdisciplinary Group of Behavioural Medicine

Europe• Behavioural Medicine Section of the Czech Medical Association• Danish Society of Psychosocial Medicine• Finnish Section of Behavioural Medicine of the Finnish Association of Social Medicine• German Society of Behavioural Medicine & Behaviour Modification• Hungarian Institute of Behavioural Sciences• Italian Society of Psychosocial Medicine• Netherlands Behavioural Medicine Federation• Norwegian Society of Behavioural Medicine• Psychosomatic & Behavioural Medicine Section of the Slovak Medicine Society• Spanish Society of Behavioural Medicine & Health Psychology• Swedish Society of Behavioural Medicine• UK Society of Behavioural Medicine

Asia Pacific• Australasian Society for Behavioural Health & Medicine•The Korean Society of Stress Medicine• Japanese Society of Behavioural Medicine• Thailand Society of Behavioural Medicine

Emerging Member Societies

Portugal

Membership of ISBMMembership is available to:• All national/regional societies of behavioral medicine

• A balance of members between biomedical & behavioural/social sciences

• A commitment to behavioural medicine as defined in the ISBM charter

And must have:

• Affiliate membership is also available

• Reduced registration fee at the International Congresses

• Reduced rate for subscribing to the International Journal of Behavioural Medicine

Membership entitlements include:

• Invitations to participate in the scientific and educational activities of the ISBM

ActivitiesThe function of ISBM is to:• Conduct activities that stimulate BM research and practice

• Coordinate communication and interaction within the worldwide behavioural medicine community.

Dissemination and interaction occurs through:

• ISBM International Congresses

• Major Scientific Journal - International Journal of Behavioural Medicine (IJBM). First issue in 1994.

• Teaching seminars in conjunction with other world leaders in health and medicine i.e. WHO, National Public Health Institute of Finland etc.

•Liaison with other professional organisations •Education and training through the preparation of curricula and the facilitation of international collaborative research studies

Special Interest Groups

Education & Training

International Network for Subjective and Unexplained Health Complaints

Women’s Health Issues

Diabetes Collaboration

Global Biological Health Threats

The ISBM along with international collaborators have identified a number of interest groups and issues that require research input to improve the health of all through behavioural medicine.

These interest groups are as follows:

Journal• Major Scientific Journal - The International Journal of Behavioural Medicine (IJBM). • First issue in 1994.

• Current editor – Ulf Lundberg (Sweden). Editor – Joost Dekker (Netherlands)

http://www.leaonline.com/imbj

For more information and subscriptions:

Past Congresses

2000 – Brisbane, Australia

1990 – Uppsala, Sweden

1992 – Hamburg, Germany

1994 - Amsterdam

1996 – Washington DC, USA

1998 - Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 – Mainz, Germany

2002 – Helsinki, Finland

2006

First Symposium of Central Eastern European Behavioural Medicine Network

Announcement:

Location: Targu-Mures, RomaniaDate: 14-16 October 2005

Date: November 29 – December 2, 2006

Location: Sofitel Central Plaza Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

Ninth International Congress of

International Medicine – Bangkok 2006

Second Announcement & Call for Abstracts

Important Dates:• 1 July 2005 – Opening of on-line abstract submissions• 1 December 2005 – Deadline for workshop proposals• 1 March 2006 – Deadline for abstract submissions• 15 June 2006 – Deadline for early registration• 1 September 2006 – Deadline for submitting rapid communication posters

Scientific Program• Covering the fields of public health, clinical research and basic processes in behavioural medicine• Examining the connections between health and behaviour• How these relationships are viewed and understood in the different regions of the world

Keynote PresentationsKaren A. Mathews, PhDUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA

Title: Recent advances in understanding women’s heart disease: socioeconomic status, personality and mediators.

Michael J. Meaney, PhDMcGill Centre for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment, Canada

Title: Maternal care alters DNA methylation and brain glucocorticoid receptor expression: A mechanism for the epigenetic regulation of stress responses.

Anuar Zaini, M.DMonash University, Malaysia

Title: Global health challenges and emerging health threats – The opportunities for behavioural medicine

Master Lectures

Norito Kawakami, PhDOkayama University Graduate School of Medicine & Dentistry, Japan

Title: Job stress prevention: research and implementation

Terrie E. Moffitt, PhDSocial, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Title: Interaction between measured genes and measured environments: A research strategy

Leenah Hsu, M.DBloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Title: Influence of socio-economic development on HIV vulnerability & behavioural responses

Manfred SchedlowskiDivision of Psychology & Behavioural Immunobiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Title: Behavioural Conditioned Immune Response: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

Panel Sessions

Prakash C. Gupta, PhDSekhsaria Institute of Public Health, India

Prakit Vathesatogkit, M.DFaculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Title: Challenges for tobacco control in countries undergoing rapid socioeconomic transition

Ruth Bonita, PhDWorld Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Liming Lee, M.DChinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, China

Title: The impact of recent public health challenges on the health systems of countries in the Asia Region

Registration

It has been recommended that all registration and abstracts are to be submitted through the ICBM website

http://www.9icbm-2006.org

Other sessions/presentations• Symposia, Oral & Poster presentations• Workshops

Key eventsWednesday 29 November 2006

Opening Ceremony & Irmela Florin Memorial LectureWelcoming Reception

Friday 1 December 2006Garden Party

Saturday 2 December 2006Closing Ceremony & Farewell Party

ICBM 2006 Program Committee

Brian Oldenburg, PhDProgram ChairSchool of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Marc D. Gellman, PhDProgram Co-ChairBehavioural Medicine Research Center, Dept. of Psychology, University of Miami, USA

Ulrike Ehlert, PhDProgram Co-ChairDept. of Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Nittaya J. Kotchabhakdi, M.DProgram Co-ChairNational Institute for Child & Family Development, Mahidol University, Thailand

Alexandra Martin, PhDInternational Workshop Coord.Dept. of Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universitat, Marburg, Germany

Antti Uutela, PhDISBM PresidentNational Public Health Institute (KTL), Finland

Redford Williams, M.DISBM President-electDuke University, USA

Neil Schneiderman, PhDInternational AdvisorUniversity of Miami, USA

For more information:

• ISBM Website:

http://www.isbm.info/

• International Congress of Behavioural Medicine 2006 Website:

http://www.9icbm-2006.org

• International Journal of Behavioural Medicine Website:

http://www.leaonline.com/loi/ijbm