coe-staff: More Info re: Upcoming Colloquia for SPSY faculty candidates - Wed 12/10 & Fri 12/12

[Emily Cornell]

The Special Education and Clinical Sciences (SPECS) Department is pleased to announce the following colloquium presentations by candidates for the open rank, tenure-related position in the School Psychology program.  Light refreshments provided.

Bridgette Tonnsen will be giving a research colloquium on Wed 12/10 from 1:30-2:30 pm (Q&A from 2:30-3pm). 340 HEDCO Education Building.
Title: Biobehavioral Predictors of Cross-Syndrome Autism
Bridgette Tonnsen’s program of research aims to identify prodromal indicators of risk and resilience in children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. With recent autism prevalence rates of 1:54 males and lifetime costs of $3.2 million per child, identifying pathways to optimal outcomes is a public health concern. As a school psychologist co-trained in experimental psychology, Bridgette addresses this need by (1) identifying autism precursors in early childhood through clinical, psychophysiological, and  experimental methods, (2) investigating indicators of psychopathology risk in children with both idiopathic autism and fragile X syndrome, the leading heritable cause of autism, and (3) translating current developmental cognitive neuroscience to practice. Funded by a competitive F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health, her program of research employs interdisciplinary methods to characterize longitudinal patterns of risk in childhood, with the long-term goal of promoting health and well-being later in development.
Bridgette will obtain her PhD in School Psychology with a concentration in Quantitative Methods from the University of South Carolina in 2015. Her graduate research was conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Jane Roberts (Neurodevelopmental Disorders Lab) and co-mentorship of Dr. John Richards (Infant Development Lab). As a capstone to her school psychology training, Bridgette is completing an APA-accredited internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she continues to specialize in early childhood assessment, autism diagnostics, and differential diagnoses in neurodevelopmental disorders.   (CV attached).
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Dr. Max Crowley will be a giving a research colloquium on Fri 12/12 from 10:30-11:30 am (Q&A from 11:30-12pm).  340 HEDCO Education Building.
Title: The Economics of Prevention: Building the Science of Investing in Healthy Development

Max Crowley is a prevention scientist and methodologist studying how to effectively and efficiently protect children and prevent maladaptive behaviors. Currently, Dr. Crowley is a National Institutes of Health research fellow at Duke University and a research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Crowley’s work benefits from interdisciplinary experience in prevention science, methodology and public finance, as well as his work in education policy at the federal and state levels. He has received multiple national awards for his scholarship and currently co-chairs the Society for Prevention Research’s Task Force on Economic Analyses of Prevention. Crowley also co-leads a new NIH-funded research network around advancing benefit-cost analyses of preventive services. This research is motivated by a growing need to understand how society can best allocate scarce education resources to prevent future burden on health and social service systems. To meet the increasing demand for such estimates, his work seeks to design school prevention efforts that strategically invest in youth to reduce maladaptive behaviors as well as the future burden on social service systems. This includes developing performance-based financing strategies to leverage private investment in educational services.  (CV attached).
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Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD, BCBA-D
Professor & Co-Director, School Psychology
Associate Director, Child and Family Center
Prevention Science Institute
5208 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5208
Ph: 541-346-7452
Fax: 541-346-0683

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