Winners of SPP Eugene Walker and Travel Awards- 2015

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Congratulations students award winners.

By David Janicke

Walker Award Winner

Cathleen Odar Stough
Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas O’Grady Resident, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Oral Paper Presentation – “ The Implementation of Group Interventions Targeting Adjustment and Self-Management in Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Youth with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Parents”

 

 

Travel Award Winners

Bridget Armstrong
University of Florida
Poster – “Convenience Store Density as a Predictor of Child Weight change in a Rural Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention”
 

 

Kathryn Birnie
Dalhousie University
Oral Paper Presentation – “Evidence of Psychological Interventions for Medical Procedures in Children: What Makes Distraction Effective?”
 

 

Kimberly Burdette
Loyola University Chicago
Poster – “Weight Misperception Among Urban Ethnic Minority Girls: Links with Obesity-Related Health Behaviors”
 

 

Ana Gutierrez-Colina
University of Georgia
Poster – “Executive Functioning, Adherence and Barriers to Adherence in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients”
 

 

Kimberly Klages
University of Memphis
Poster – “ Empirically Derived Patterns of Pain, Stool Frequency, and Incontinence and their Relations to Health Related Quality of Life among Youth with Chronic Constipation”

 

Alexandria Mullins
Oklahoma State University
Poster – “Depression and Anxiety Among Parents of Children with a Disorder of Sexual Development”
 

 

Jennifer Rohan
University of Cincinnati
Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Poster – “The Relationship of 6-Mercaptopurine Medication Adherence to Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Cancer”

 

Tiffany Rybak
University of Memphis
Oral Paper Presentation – “Patterns of family functioning and conflict and relations to glycemic control and quality of life among primarily low income adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes”