CCST meets three times a year. These meetings inform state leaders about CCST's ongoing projects and initiatives and focus attention on other S&T related issues. Visitors and guests include heads of state agencies, Legislators, and leading experts from a variety of scientific and technological disciplines. Each meeting features speakers who are experts in their field.
Robert Kaplan will be the dinner speaker at the February 2012 CCST Council meeting.
Kaplan is Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the NIH
and NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
OBSSR's work focuses on how behavioral and social factors often
influence illness and health. The office stimulates and integrates
behavioral and social sciences research across NIH's institutes and
centers to improve the understanding, treatment, and prevention of
disease.
Kaplan came to the NIH from the University of California, Los Angeles,
where he is distinguished professor in the Department of Health Services
at the School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine at the
David Geffen School of Medicine. He has also served as the principal
investigator of the UCLA/RAND CDC Prevention Research Center and
director of the UCLA/RAND Health Services Research training program. He
was also professor and chair of the Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
At the University of California, Riverside, Dr. Kaplan earned an M.A.
and Ph.D. in psychology. His research interests include behavioral
medicine, health services research, health outcome measurement and
multivariate data analysis. He is editor-in-chief of the American
Psychological Association journal Health Psychology.
Dr. Kaplan received the American Psychological Association's Division of
Health Psychology's annual award for outstanding scientific contribution
as a junior scholar in 1987 and as a senior scholar in 2001. He also
received the Society of Behavioral Medicine's national leadership award
in 2004 and distinguished research mentor award in 2006. He is a member
of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
