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Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Our mission is to promote the identification, prevention, and effective treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems in our society through research, education, training, and policy advocacy.
Center Leadership
Peter M. Monti, Ph.D., Center Director
Suzanne Colby, Ph.D., Associate Director
Jeffrey Griffin, Associate Director, Finance and Administration
Christopher Kahler, Ph.D., Associate Director of Biostatistics
Damaris Rohsenow, Ph.D., Associate Director
Robert Swift, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director
Celebrating 30 Years of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
In 2013, the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies will celebrate its 30th year of promoting identification, prevention, effective treatments, and dissemination of evidence-based treatments for alcohol and other drug use problems in our society.
To honor this occasion, we are planning a celebration for Faculty, Trainees and Alumnae to be held in September 2013. The event will included a dinner one night followed by a day of scientific presentations by some of the individuals who have worked at or been trained at CAAS over the years. Planning work is currently underway to decide the exact dates and location.
Contacting CAAS
The Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies is located at
121 South Main St., Providence, RI.
News
CAAS Director, Dr. Peter Monti, has received the 2nd Annual Marlatt Mentorship Award. This award is given to individuals whose mentoring of young researchers in the alcohol research field is demonstrated to be exceptional, and therefore, should be recognized.
Dr. Kate Carey is the 2013 recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching in Public Health. This award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching and dedication to students in Public Health. Nominations come from students with supporting documentation from chairs and center heads. For campus-based faculty this is one of 4 per year given by the Division of Biology and Medicine: there is a Dean's award given for Mentoring in Public Health, and also 2 for teaching and mentoring in the Biological Sciences. The 2012 awardee for Classroom Teaching in Public Health was our own Dr. Don Operario, also a BSS/CAAS faculty member!
In March 2013, Dr. Christopher Kahler presented on "Developing Interventions to Address Comorbid Conditions and Risk Factors in Smoking Cessation Treatment" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research (SRNT) in Boston, MA. He also contributed to multiple presentations including "Anhedonia, Positive Effect, and Motivation to Initiate and Maintain Smoking on a Lab-Based Smoking Task," " Training Quitline Coaches to Fidelity for Smoking Cessation Clinical and Alcohol Counseling," "Affective Predictors of Cessation Failure within 24 hours of Quit Attempt in Smokers with Elevated Depressed Symptoms," "Hostility, Depression, and Cigarette Use: A Comparison Between Smokers and Non-Smokers in a Matched Sample of Adolescents," " Hostility as a Predictor of Affective Changes During Acute Tobacco Withdrawal", Pre-quit Depressive Symptoms, Affect and Quit Day Cessation Outcome in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Sequential Outcome Fluoxetine for Smokers with Elevated Depressive Symptoms," and "Randomized Trial of Brief Alcohol Counseling for Hazardous Drinking Smokers Calling a Tobacco Quitline."
In March 2013, Dr. Suzanne Colby attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research (SRNT) in Boston, MA where she concluded a three-year term as elected representative of the North American members of SRNT on the Board of Directors.
In addition, several current and former students and postdocs working with Dr. Colby gave presentations including Michael Bernstein who presented "Hostility, Depression, and Cigarette Use: A Comparison Between Smokers and Non-Smokers in a Matched Sample of Adolescents", Megan Roberts, who presented "What Predicts Early Smoking Milestones?", and Jessica Nargiso, who presented "General and smoking-specific social support network characteristics associated with adolescent smoking".
Dr. Cinnamon Bidwell recently attended the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in Boston, MA and presented her work entitled "Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and smoking deprivation effects" on March 15, 2013. She presented information on the associations among high levels of ADHD symptoms and increased smoking deprivation effects in adult smokers.
Posted April 2013
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