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Ruth S. Day

Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27710-0088
822 Erwin Square, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Risk Evaluation and Mititgation Strategies (REMS) ‘Knowledge Surveys’: How Are They Working? · July 26, 2013 Lecture Food & Drug Administration Public Meeting
Over-the-Counter Medications: Decision Making in Older Adults · April 10, 2013 Lecture National Summit on OTC Medication Behaviors of Older Adults (sponsored by the Geronological Society of America and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association)
Enhanced Designs for Patient Medication Information: Effects on Cognition · February 28, 2013 Lecture U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Enhanced Designs for Patient Medication Information: Preliminary Results - Pharmaceutical Printed Literature Association Annual Meeting · December 4, 2012 Invited Talk

Invited Talk; Day, R.S.

Segmenting the Dance Stream: Implications for Perception and Memory · November 17, 2012 Lecture Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting
Patient medication information study: Printing, distribution, & cognition · October 5, 2011 Lecture Pharmaceutical Printed Literature Association, Members Meeting, Washington, DC
Audience memory program: Implications for the dance field. · August 1, 2011 Lecture
Audience memory program: Overview & Results · July 14, 2011 Lecture Dance/USA Conference, Chicago
Audience memory program: Results · July 13, 2011 Lecture Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Engaging dance audiences conference, Chicago
Audience perception & memory · July 5, 2011 Lecture American Dance Festival
Audience perception & memory · June 28, 2011 Lecture American Dance Festival
Audience perception & memory · June 21, 2011 Lecture American Dance Festival
Benefit-Risk information: Effects of visualization on patients · June 17, 2011 Lecture Center for Innovation in Regulatory Science
Memory for movement · June 9, 2011 Lecture American Dance Festival
Patient medication information pilot study: Printing, distribution, & cognition · May 23, 2011 Lecture Glaxo Smith Kline, Research Triangle Park, NC
Understanding risks, from drugs to tobacco: A cognitive approach · May 9, 2011 Lecture Institute of Medicine (Committee on Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products), Washington, DC
Knowledge Structures: Goals & Methods · April 10, 2011 Lecture Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Chunking, coding, expertise, and other cognitive classics · March 18, 2011 Lecture Cognition: Then & Now Series, Duke University
Cognition & Teaching: Implications for TeamLEAD · March 10, 2011 Lecture Singapore Medical Education Research Forum, Singapore
Medication errors · March 8, 2011 Lecture Executive Committee, Singapore Ministry of Health, Singapore
Medical errors: Why they occur & how to reduce them · March 8, 2011 Lecture Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Patient medication information: From concept to compliance. · September 27, 2010 Lecture U.S. Food and Drug Administration, White Oak, MD
Writing about dance: Perception and memory · September 20, 2010 Lecture Thompson Writing Program, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · July 21, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · July 18, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · July 11, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · July 5, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · July 3, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory workshop · June 28, 2010 Lecture
Audience perception and memory workshop · June 27, 2010 Lecture American Dance Festival, Duke University
Audience perception and memory: Project overview · June 17, 2010 Lecture Dance/USA Annual Conference, Washington, DC
Cognitive accessibility of prescription drug monographs: Alternative representations. · February 22, 2010 Lecture First DataBank, San Bruno CA
Memory for Movement: From dancers to audiences · January 29, 2010 Lecture Engaging Dance Audiences Conference, San Diego
Solving drug name confusions can create new problems. · November 21, 2009 Lecture Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting.
Understanding risks: Health literacy vs. cognitie accessibility · October 19, 2009 Lecture Health Literacy Annual Research Conference, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science
Everyday cognition: Attention, comprehension, memory, problem solving · August 18, 2009 Lecture Scientifica Conference (society for exceptional science students, Durham public school system
Medical cognition: What do people understand and remember? · August 6, 2009 Lecture Medical Library Staff, Duke University Medical Center
Hidden warnings: Ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen · June 29, 2009 Lecture Food and Drug Administration, Joint meeting of the Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee, Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, and the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee
Wherever you are -- from William James to modern dance · June 27, 2009 Lecture Invited Address, Tribute for Gerald E. Myers, American Dance Festival.
Drug and medical device ads: What do people understand and remember? · February 26, 2009 Lecture Keynote Address, Hearing Industries Association Annual Meeting
Memory for movement: The mind of the dancer · February 21, 2009 Lecture Across the Threshold Interdisciplinary Conference
Reducing medication errors: Do proposed solutions work? - Pharmacy Leadership Group · January 18, 2009 Invited Talk Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center
DTC Ads for Medical Devices: What Do People Understand and Remember? · September 17, 2008 Lecture U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Aging
DTC Drug Ads: What Do People Understand and Remember? · May 8, 2008 Lecture U.S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee; Hearing on Direct-to-Consumer Ads
Everyday cognition: Comprehension and memory for prescription drug information. · January 19, 2008 Lecture Invited Address, Southeastern Psychological Association.
Drug Ads: What Do People Understand & Remember? · January 19, 2008 Lecture National Continuting Education Conference for Pharmacists

Service to the Profession


FDA Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee · July 31, 2013 Other
FDA Endocrinological and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee · June 5, 2013 - June 6, 2013 Other
FDA Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee. Meeting on drug-drug interactions · 2013 Other
Scientific Advisor : Brookings Institution & FDA Working Group on Patient Medication Information · 2013 Other
Panelist (scientific expert) : U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, Public Meeting · June 7, 2012 Other
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Anti-Infectives and NonPrescription Drugs Advisory Committees (doxycyline MedKits for anthrax exposure). · April 2, 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Host : American Dance Festival, Post-Performance Discussion Program (with Artists & Audience). · 2012 Other
Brookings Institution · February 23, 2011 Other Washington, DC
Consultant : U.S. Food & Drug Administration · January 13, 2011 Other Washington, DC
Scientific Advisor : Institute of Medicine (National Academies of Science) · January 2, 2011 Event/Organization Administration
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Advisory Committee · January 9, 2010 Event/Organization Administration
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Advisory Committee (AC) · 2010 Event/Organization Administration
Session Chair, Across the Threshold Dance Conference · January 19, 2009 Event/Organization Administration
U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Workshop on consumer medical information · January 19, 2009 Event/Organization Administration
Member : U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Advisory Committees · 2009 Event/Organization Administration
Consultant : U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Sample projects · 2009 Other