Article archive / February 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 2. Source pages: 15, 16.
The Southeastern Psychological Association will hold its annual conference for 2017 in Atlanta from March 8 through March 11, at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, located on Peachtree Road NE.
Invited speakers for this year include Antonio E. Puente, PhD, the 2017 President of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Puente is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and he has taught at St. George’s University School of Medicine. According to the program, he teaches in the areas of Brain and Behavior, Clinical Neuro- psychology and History of Psychology. His research focuses on the interface between culture and neuropsychology. He is an international and national researcher, collaborator, and lecturer, and a visiting professor at UCLA and the Universidad de Granada in Spain. In addition, he is founder and co-director of mental health services at the Cape Fear Clinic, a bilingual health center serving the poor and uninsured.
Keynote speakers also include Monica Baskin, PhD, an expert in minority health matters and health disparities. She is professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the U. of Alabama.
Also Cirleen DeBlaere, PhD, will provide a Keynote address on underserved populations and oppression. Her research focuses on the marginalized and underserved populations with particular emphasis on intersectionality and multiple forms of oppression (e.g., LGBTQ, race).
Luis Rivera, PhD, is also an invited speaker. He an Assistant Professor Principal Investigator of the Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition (RISC) lab, and expert experimental social psychology with a specialization in implicit social cognition theory and methodology.
All workshops this year will offer three hours of continuing education credits. T
Last year’s Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) meeting in New Orleans. L to R: Dr. Thomas Mitchell, from the University of Baltimore, Dr. Jerry Tobacyk, from Louisiana Tech University, and Efehi Edomwony, from Xavier University. This year SEPA will be in Atlanta on March 8 to 11.
SEPA will be held in Atlanta this year. Above, (L to R) researchers Ester Hutchinson, Tara Payne, and Anna Maclellan, all from Our Lady of Holy Cross College/ U. of Holy Cross, exhibit research at last year’s SEPA which was held in New Orleans.
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