BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Speakers and Seminars,Faculty Event,Scholarly Event DESCRIPTION:Note: If you are interested in attending this event\, please RS VP here or select the "Register" button on this page.\n\nThe eighth and fin al Faculty Pub Night of the 2025-26 season features Timothy Williamson\, as sistant professor of psychology (Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts). He wi ll discuss his recent co-authored publication\, "Mindful self-compassion fo r lung cancer (MSC-LC): Incorporating perspectives of lung cancer patients\ , clinicians\, and researchers to create an adapted intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma."\n\nAbout Faculty Pub Night\n\nStudents\, staff\, facul ty\, alumni\, and members of the public are all invited to the 2025-26 seri es of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU profess ors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.\n\nAbout the Author's Work\n\nW hen someone is diagnosed with lung cancer\, they face not only the physical challenges of the disease but also a less visible—and often overlooked—bur den: stigma. Stigma can show up in everyday moments\, like when someone sha res their diagnosis and is immediately asked\, “Did you smoke?” These kinds of responses can leave patients feeling blamed\, judged\, and isolated. Wh ile stigma may not be visible on a scan or under a microscope\, Dr. William son’s research demonstrates that it has very real consequences for patients ’ health.\n\nWilliamson has demonstrated that people who experience high lu ng cancer stigma are more likely to experience symptoms of depression\, anx iety\, insomnia\, and more bothersome physical problems like fatigue and pa in. In his current research\, he is working with his LMU mentees in the Psy chosocial Risk & Resilience in Stress & Medicine (PRRISM) Research Lab to e xplore the role of self-compassion—a skill that helps people respond to dif ficulty with kindness\, awareness\, and acceptance—in helping people with l ung cancer to cope with situations and feelings that arise from stigma. In his newly developed intervention program—Mindful Self-Compassion for Lung C ancer (MSC-LC)—patients come together from across the country to participat e in a 10-week group (offered virtually) to learn and practice self-compass ion skills to address the emotional weight of stigma.\n\nIn this Faculty Pu b Night presentation\, Williamson and his mentees will share insights from their program of research and highlights from recent works published in Ann als of Internal Medicine and Translational Behavioral Medicine.\n\nAbout th e Author\n\nTimothy J. Williamson\, Ph.D.\, MPH\, is an assistant professor and director of the Psychosocial Risk & Resilience in Stress & Medicine (P RRISM) Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychological Science at Lo yola Marymount University. He is a clinical health psychologist with specia lized training in public health and psycho-oncology. Williamson’s program o f research is centered on understanding\, reducing\, and preventing stigma within cancer care\, and his work in this area has spanned the cancer care continuum\, including screening\, referrals to tobacco cessation\, active t reatment\, and longer-term survivorship. Williamson has also spearheaded ef forts to change the language used within tobacco research to reduce stigma\ , which resulted in an official language guide adopted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer to promote bias-free language wit hin their professional association and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.\n\ nWilliamson is a member of the American Cancer Society’s National Lung Canc er Roundtable Stigma & Nihilism Task Force and the Cancer Equity and Divers ity Committee for Cancer Support Community Los Angeles. He has published 35 + peer-reviewed journal articles\, received more than $1 million in externa l grants to support his research\, and has been recognized for his research and scholarship at both the University and National level\, including the Ascending Scholar Award from LMU in 2024 and the Deborah J. Bowen Early Car eer Investigator Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2025. He lives with his family in Marina del Rey and enjoys hiking\, baking\, and pl aying board games.\n\nAbout the William H. Hannon Library\n\nThe William H. Hannon Library fosters excellence in academic achievement through an array of distinctive services that enable learners to feed their curiosity\, exp erience new worlds\, develop their ideas\, inform their decision-making\, a nd inspire others. More information can be found at http://library.lmu.edu\ n\nFor more information about this event\, contact the Outreach and Engagem ent team at the William H. Hannon library via email at library.outreach@lmu .edu or call 310-338-5234. DTEND:20260415T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T054031Z DTSTART:20260415T003000Z GEO:33.970651;-118.419248 LOCATION:William H. Hannon Library\, Von der Ahe Suite (Level 3) SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Faculty Pub Night: Timothy Williamson on "A Call to Compassion: Red ucing Stigma in Lung Cancer Care" UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50270451011330 URL:https://cal.lmu.edu/event/faculty-pub-night-timothy-williamson-on-a-cal l-to-compassion-reducing-stigma-in-lung-cancer-care END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR