Brittney Dixon and Abe Eastman win Meritorious Student Abstract Awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine

Brittney Dixon, MPH, and Abe Eastman, MA MS

HPL Ph.D. students Brittney Dixon, M.P.H., and Abe Eastman, M.A. M.S., both earned Meritorious Student Abstract Awards at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (previously scheduled for April 1-4, 2020, in San Francisco, CA. While the conference itself was cancelled due to COVID19, both abstracts have been published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine:

  • Dixon, B. N., Eastman, A., Ugwoaba, U. A., Brockmann, A., Scarlett, C. A., Bauman, V., Shankar, M. N., Perri, M. G., & Ross, K. M. (2020). Does where you live matter? The built environment and intervention-related changes among rural adults with obesity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54, S441.  Paper accepted for oral presentation at the 2020 Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19).
  • Eastman, A., Bauman, V., Dixon, B.N., Ugwoaba, U.A., Brockmann, A.N., Scarlett, C.A., Shankar, M.N., Perri, M.G., & Ross, K.M. (2020). Acceptance-based behavioral treatments for weight management: A systematic review. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54, S782. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2020 Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19).