Twelfth
ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
THE DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Monday, APRIL 21, 2008
4:30 – 8:00 p.m.
O’Donnell Hall, RM. 111 and the Learning Theater
‘I thought the pill was powerful:’ Counseling psychology, health literacy, and
social justice
Keynote speaker – Lydia P. Buki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, College of
Medicine, and the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Buki’s bio
Lydia P. Buki earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Arizona
State University in 1995, becoming a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Colorado
in 2000. Her area of interest is psycho-oncology, with particular emphasis on
the psychosocial, cultural, individual, and institutional factors that
contribute to health disparities in medically underserved Latina/o populations.
Having grown up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she applies her bilingual and
bicultural skills to work with the Latina/o population in the U.S. More
recently, Dr. Buki’s work appeared in the journal Cancer, where she examined predictors of screening behavior
in a study of over 450 Latina women without health insurance (Buki, Jamison,
Anderson, & Cuadra, 2007). Dr. Buki is a founding member of the
Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts of the Office on Women’s Health, DHHS,
and of the Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities Program of the
National Cancer Institute. Currently, she serves on the Editorial Board of The Counseling Psychologist and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
She has reviewed grants for several entities, including the National Institutes
of Health, the Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
5:45 p.m.
Second-year Counseling Psychology doctoral students present their
multicultural research.
7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by
Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Funded in part by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
For more information contact Eve Adams at
646-1142