Keynote speakers
Professor Sarah Grogan, Staffordshire University, UK
Body Image and Health: Links and Future Directions.
Sarah Grogan graduated from Cardiff University with an undergraduate Psychology degree and a PhD. Since then she has held lecturing posts at the University of Birmingham, Manchester Metropolitan University, Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville Florida (on a Fulbright exchange) and more recently at Staffordshire University.
Sarah joined Staffordshire University in 2001 as Principal Lecturer and was promoted to Professor in 2006.
Professor John Lawrence, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA
Psychosocial Adaption to Burns: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
John Lawrence is a Professor and the Chairperson of the Psychology Department at the College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York. He has been at CSI since the fall of 2002.
John is a clinical psychologist who received his doctoral degree from the University of Miami, Florida. He did his internship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Behavioral Medicine Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
From 1995 to 2002, John was an attending psychologist at Johns Hopkins Burn Center. Clinically, he specialises in treating people with comorbid medical and psychological conditions, in particular severe burns. His research has focused on psychosocial burn rehabilitation (eg, PTSD, psychosocial adjustment to scarring, body image concerns). He has been the director of a project for developing valid questionnaires for measuring the psychosocial impact of burns. The project has created three questionnaires: the Satisfaction With Appearance Scale (SWAP), the Perceived Stigmatization Questionnaire (PSQ) and the Social Comfort Questionnaire (SCQ).
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