Description:

This virtual event is hosted by Association of Northwestern University Women and open to all.

Learn how to harness positive emotion to combat stress, no matter how difficult the times.  Network with your peers after the presentation.

Speaker: Judith Moskowitz is a Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director of the Behavioral, Social, and Implementation Sciences (BSIS) Core for the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR), and Director of Research at the Northwestern Osher Center for Integrative Health. Trained as a social psychologist, for the past 20 years she has conducted patient-oriented research regarding behavioral and psychosocial factors in the context of significant illness or other life stress. Her current research is focused on the unique adaptive role of positive emotion in the process of coping with various types of health-related and other life stress and, through randomized trials, her team tests whether a positive emotion regulation intervention can increase positive emotion, reduce stress and depression, and improve health behaviors.