CAAS News

Suzanne Colby

Congratulations to Dr. Colby, recently named Deputy Regional Editor (of the Americas) for Addiction.

 Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Colby, who has recently been named Deputy Regional Editor (of the Americas) for Addiction.

This is the webpage for the Editorial Board: https://www.addictionjournal.org/about-us/editorial-board

Molly Magill

Dr. Magill presented a podcast in Spring 2020 and contributed on a publication.

Molly Magill, PhD presented the following podcast in Spring 2020; the podcast has been posted. Titled: Stop. Be Present. Listen. Why Motivational Interviewing is an Important Tool in Recovery with Dr. Molly Magill This podcast presents a monthly forum with leading researchers in Addictions, and targets Smart Recovery facilitators, members, and the broader public. https://smartrecovery.libsyn.com/stop-be-present-listen

Congratulations to Morayo Akande on her first First-authored publication!

Congratulations! Morayo "Mo" Akande and Dr. Patricia Cioe submitted a manuscript titled "Resilience is associated with importance of quitting in homeless adult smokers" which was accepted for publication. Dr. Cioe said "Mo was my advisee as both an Undergraduate Honors student and an MPH student. As you know she is amazing and this is her first first-authored publication!"

Akande, M, Cioe, PA, Glasser, I, Hirsch, E. Resilience is associated with importance of quitting in homeless adult smokers. Addictive Behaviors, in press.

Dr. Cassidy published a paper on E-cigarette measurement.

Dr. Rachel Cassidy published a paper on E-cigarette measurement. This paper validated a measure of reward from e-cigarette use in users of tank-style e-cigarettes. https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntaa060/5817939

Dr. Sokolovsky recently published two papers in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Dr. Alexander Sokolovsky published a paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled, "Alcohol and marijuana co-use: Consequences, subjective intoxication, and the operationalization of simultaneous use." This paper examines day-level risks of alcohol and marijuana co-use versus single substance use and explores whether different approaches to defining "simultaneous" versus "concurrent" result in additional risk.

Robert Miranda

Dr. Miranda was a featured speaker in a recent virtual K99 Grant Writing Workshop!

Dr. Robert Miranda was a featured speaker in a virtual K99 Grant Writing Workshop organized by the Brown Postdoc Council (BPC) in partnership with the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Biomed (OGPS). This workshop was held through Zoom on May 5th, 2020. As research activities have wound down, this is a great opportunity for postdocs to consider writing a grant. This workshop brought together excellent sessions and Q&A with experts, current K99 awardees, and reviewers from Brown.

Recently Dr. van den Berg with Drs. Operario and Stein has published two separate articles on (1) health disparities, and (2) motivational interviewing

Along with colleagues from Korea University, Drs. Jacob van den Berg and Don Operario published an article in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health on health disparities among transgender adults in South Korea.

Liz Aston

Dr. Aston was a conference co-chair of the Collaborative Perspectives on Addictions 2020 conference!

Dr. Elizabeth Aston was a conference co-chair of the Collaborative Perspectives on Addictions (CPA) 2020 conference. With a virtual poster session for CPA 4/16-4/17 - posters will be tweeted throughout both days from the Division 50 handle: @apadivision50. The schedule can be found at: https://addictionpsychology.org/sites/default/files/public/VirtualPosterSchedule.pdf.

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