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- “The Human Person: Possibilities for Flourishing in Dire Circumstances” Hellenic Research Foundation, European Research Network. Athens, Greece September 21, 2007.
- “The Human Being as revealed more fully in Disability and In Extremis.” European Research Network meeting: The human person in the 21st Century. Thessaloniki, Greece April 22-25, 2007.
- “Biomedical Humanities and the Center for Literature and Medicine” Presentation to the Board of Visitors, Hiram College, November 2006.
- “The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale – Development and General Social Survey Data” American Psychological Association Division 36, Columbia, Maryland, April 1, 2005.
- “The Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale – In Depth Interviews with Trappist Monks and a General Population Sample” American Academy of Religion, Mid- Atlantic Regional Meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 3-4, 2005.
- “Compassionate Love: A Model for Research and Results from Selected Studies” Case Western Reserve University meeting: The Love that Does Justice, Sponsored by the Ford Foundation. October 15, 2004.
- “Social Science Research on Compassionate Love – Conceptual overview, results, and ethical implications.” Calvin College Seminar Series, July 6, 2004.
- “Giving Love: How Can Science Inform Us?” Keynote, Nevola Symposium 2004, Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine, June 7, 2004.
- “Art and Imagination as Doorways,” Workshop for Nevola Symposium, Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine, June 7, 2004.
- “Psychosocial Factors including Spirituality and Religiousness and the effect on and contribution to Health Outcomes” Advisory Board, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health, May 8, 2004.
- “Border-Crossings” Graduation Address for Lee Honors College Graduation Ceremony, Western Michigan University, April 15, 2004.
- “Qualitative Interviews on Compassion- Methodological Innovation” Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, March 3, 2004.
- “The Art of Compassionate Love: Research in the Social Sciences,” Plenary Address, International Association for Relationship Research meeting, Illinois State University, Bloomington, June 1, 2003
- “Compassionate Love: An Adventure in Field Development,” Plenary Address, Meeting: Works of Love, Villanova University, June 4, 2003
- “How the arts inform our understanding: Media as a Tool for Change,” Conference on Stigma, Mental Illness, and the Media, Washington D.C., July 29-30, 2002.
- “Time and Eternity: An Epidemiological Approach,” Conference on “Experimenting: Literature and Science,” Aarhus University (Denmark), May 2002.
- “World Health Organization Measure of Subjective Quality of Life: Inclusion of values, meaning and spiritual aspects of life: Instrument development and testing,” International Society of Quality of Life Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 7, 2001.
- “Spiritual Issues in Research at End of Life,” Joint Workshop on End of Life Issue, National Institute on Aging, National Institute for Nursing Research, Washington DC, October 22, 2001.
- “Definitional Issues and Funded Studies in Altruistic Love,” NIMH Workshop on Close Relationship Research, Washington DC, July 2001
- “Measurement Issues in the Study of Spirituality/Religiousness and Alcoholism,” Workshop for Research Initiatives on Spirituality and Alcohol, Fetzer Institute and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Washington, DC, May 2001
- “Research Model for the Study of Compassionate Love,” Seminar and Panel at the State of the World Forum, New York, NY, September 7, 2000
- “Psychosocial Factors and Health,” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Michigan State University Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, November 2000
- “Agape Love Research,” John Templeton Foundation Board of Advisors Meeting, Washington, DC, February 2000
- “Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Spirituality,” Studying Spirituality and Alcohol Conference, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Washington, DC, February 1999.
- “The Human Experience of Agape & Compassion: Conceptual Mapping and Data from Selected Studies,” Empathy, Altruism and Agape, a Research Symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 1999
- “Living Well with Disability – The Role of Spirituality,” American Journal of Health Promotion Annual Conference, Amelia Island, FL, March 1999
- “Improving Health: An Integrative Approach,” Grantmakers in Health Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, February 1998.
- “Definitional Issues in Spirituality and Religiousness for use in Research and Practice,” Federal Chaplin’s Workshop on Spirituality and Treatment Plans, Washington DC, September 12-13, 1996.
- “Spiritual and Religious Perspectives in Coping Research,” Symposium at APS Annual Meeting, March 1-4, 1995.
- “Role of Religiousness and Spirituality among Persons with Disability: Applications to Daily Living,” Roles of Religiousness and Spirituality in Medical Rehabilitation and the Lives of Persons with Disability Conference, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Washington, DC, May 1995.
- “Biobehavioral Aspects of Pain,” Workshop on Biobehavioral Pain Research: A Multi- Agency Assessment of Cross-Cutting Issues and Research Needs, NIH, January 18-21, 1994.
- “Measuring Stress and Integrating the Social Sciences in Asthma Research," Workshop on Stress and Asthma, September 27-28, 1993.
- “Health: Including Mind, Body and Spirit,” One-Day Workshop, Ministry Formation Program, Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo, 1992.
- “Mind-Body-Spirit Health,” One-day Workshop, John Carroll University, 1990.
- “Sun and Skin Cancer,” Radio Broadcast, Nationwide - BBC - United Kingdom, June 1986.
- “Melanoma Epidemiology,” British Cancer Society, London, England, 1986.
- “Cancer Epidemiology – the Role of the Oncogene,” Genetical Society, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland, October 1985.
- “Delay in Diagnosis of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma,” Medical Research Group, Belfast, N. Ireland, May 1985.
- “Histopathology of Melanoma in Northern Ireland,” First International Melanoma Meeting, Venice, Italy, May 1985.
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