Professional Development

Classes

• Fundamentals of Tobacco Interventions:  SRNT Pre-Conference Skills-Building Workshop, Training Enhancement in Applied Cessation Counselling and Health (TEACH) Project, ON, Canada (02/2011)

Seminars and Conferences

• How the brain forms new habits:  Why willpower is not enough.  Institute for Brain Potential, Riverside, CA, 6 contact hours (03/2012)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Loma Linda University Medical Center (03/2011)
• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 17th Annual Meeting, February 16-19, 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (02/2011)
• Cultivating and Using Clinical Preceptors, AACN Webinar Series (11/2010)
• Motivational Interviewing Review Loma Linda University School of Nursing (09/2010)
• An introduction to motivational interviewing, Albuquerque, New Mexico (03/2010)
• The picture of health, Loma Linda University (10/2009)
• Tobacco Education,  Loma Linda University School of Nursing (09/2009)
• Improving Class Discussions and Supporting Cooperative Learning, Loma Linda University School of Nursing (09/2009)
• Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle in Primary Care, Geneva Switzerland (07/2009)
• Healthy People 2009: Lifestyle Strategies for the Prevention and Intervention of Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes (03/2009)
• Clinical and Practical Applications of Positive Psychology (11/2008)
• International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition (03/2008)
• Motivational Interviewing I (09/2007)
• Cultivating Compassion in a Healthcare Environment (09/2007)
• 7+1 Creation Health for Body, Mind, Soul (07/2007)
• Lifestyle Medicine Symposium (05/2006)