Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of sociocultural psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to disease prevention, health promotion, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) is a federation of national societies, whose goal is to serve the needs of all health-related disciplines concerned with issues relevant to behavioral medicine. Each national society includes both biomedical and behavioral scientists.
The International Congress of Behavioural Medicine.
Please download here the Final Program (PDF) .
ICBM 2010 Recorded Sessions. Please follow this link to view the Presentations.
Please follow this link to view the Controversies in Clinical Trials Recorded Sessions.
New ISBM President elected:
Dr. Norito Kawakami (president@isbm.info) starts his term (2010-2012) as the President, and the information of the Executive Committee and the Board members is updated.
Address of the new President: (Word|Acrobat)
Call for suggestions of the Nominations Committee Chair
The International Society of Behavioural Medicine announces the search for the position of Nominations Committee Chair.
Please download here the announcement (Word|Acrobat)
Search for new Editor-in-Chief IJBM 2012 - 2017
The International Society of Behavioral Medicine announces the search for the position of Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. The official term of the next IJBM editorship is January 2012 – December 2017. However, the new Editor will begin handling manuscripts during a transition period starting mid 2011 – December 2011, in close cooperation with the current Editor.
Please download here the announcement (Word|PDF)
Please note the link to the Diabetes and Depression Website with it´s access to a FTP filesharing site.
There is an initial architecture prepared to allow members of the Dialogue on
Diabetes and Depression to upload files.
