Dr. Patricia Cioe recently received notice of award for a new R21 grant

Three Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Alumni and current CAAS Assistant and Associate Professors, Hayley Treloar Padovano, Jennifer Merrill, and Sara Becker recently received prestigious awards in recognition of their research excellence, mentorship, and collaboration.

Dr. Kelli Scott recently received notice of award for a 5-year K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Angela Stevens, PhD, CAAS Postdoctoral Fellow, recently published, "Examining motivational pathways from adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms to cannabis use: Results from a prospective study of veterans" in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors with co-authors, Drs. Gunn, Jackson, Borsari, and Metrik.

Dr. Carolina Haass-Koffler, who studies mechanisms of addiction and drug treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), was interviewed by "The Scientist" where she was asked to comment on the recently published manuscript by Jin and colleagues, "Brain Ethanol Metabolism by Astrocytic ALDH2 Drives the Behavioural Effects of Ethanol Intoxication" in the journal Nature Metabolism. Her interview was featured in the "The Scientist" news article, "Cerebellum Plays Crucial Role in Metabolizing Alcohol in Mice" written by Marcus Banks where she calls the Jin and colleagues study a "huge advancement."

Dr. Hayley Treloar Padovano recently received notice that she is receiving the Early Career Investigator Award from the Research Society on Alcohol

Dr. Kelli Scott recently hosted the Addiction Science Journal Club’s first Twitter Chat discussing her manuscript, “Health Professional Stigma as a Barrier to Contingency Management Implementation in Opioid Treatment Programs” on Friday, March 12th.

Dr. Angela Stevens recently authored a paper on alcohol and cannabis co-use.

Her co-authored publication in Nicotine and Tobacco focused on the challenges faced by grantees of the National Cancer Institute, while conducting smoking cessation trials in people living with HIV and in the paper described the procedural, analytic/statistical, and financial/administrative challenges they encountered due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meghan Gonsalves, ScM co-authored a study titled, "Development of a cognitive bias modification intervention for anxiety disorders in primary care."

Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Scientific Director of Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH), Christopher Kahler, was invited, and accepted, to join the American Psychologist Editorial Board.

Dr. Lauren Micalizzi, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, published, "A Sibling-comparison Study of Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk for Reading-related Problems" in Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Brendan Jacka, PhD, Investigator in Epidemiology, recently published, "Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare access among patients receiving medication for opioid use disorder" in Drug and Alcohol Dependence along with co-authors, Dr. Sara Becker, Dr. Tim Janssen, Julia Yermash, and colleagues from RTI International and University of Washington.

Brown CAAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. David G. Zelaya, was invited, and accepted, to join the editorial board for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (PSOGD; 2021-2023).

Dr. Kristina Jackson received the notice of award for her R01, "Understanding Adolescent In-Vivo Exposure to Alcohol Content in the Media" from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Dr. Christy Capone, received a grant from the Providence VA's Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology.

Assistant Professor and New England ATTC Evaluation Director, Dr. Kelli Scott, recently published a manuscript in Translational Issues is Psychological Science using qualitative methods to explore stigma among health professionals providing treatment for opioid use disorder. 

Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Behavioral and Social Sciences, Dr. Suzanne Colby, along with Brown University, Deparment of Behavioral and Social Sciences PhD Alumni, Dr. Rachel Denlinger-Apte, recently co-chaired a virtual conference for the Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) entitled "E-Cigarettes and Health Equity".

Dr. Hayley Treloar Padovano recentely received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences - COBRE grant P20GM130414 (PI: Monti) Replacement Project 3! 

Dr. Molly Magill's work from NIAAA-funded projects (R21, AA023662; K23, AA018126) on mechanisms of Motivational Interviewing was recently cited and linked in a New York Times piece on the use of Motivational Interviewing to speak with those opposed to vaccinations. The article, "The Science of Reasoning with Unreasonable People" was published on January 31st, 2021. Collaborators on the featured project include Jacques Gaume, Timothy Apodaca, Justin Walthers, Nadine Mastroleo, Brian Borsari, and Richard Longabaugh.

Our new staff member, Audrey Bell, is a recent William and Mary Psychology graduate joining Dr. Robert Miranda's research team as a Research Assistant. In the lab, Audrey will be working on studies involving medication treatment for adolescents with alcohol use disorder!

Dr. Patricia Cioe's manuscript titled, "Personalized feedback improves cardiovascular risk perception and physical activity levels in persons with HIV: results of a pilot randomized clinical trial" was recently published in AIDS Care!

CAAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Nathan Kearns, was recently published in Addictive Behaviors! His manuscript focused on the effect of acute trauma-related stress after alcohol consumption on perceived likelihood of negative driving-related consequences (i.e., getting in an accident, getting pulled over) and willingness to drive.

Dr. Samuel Meisel has a new published paper that report the results of his F31 funded dissertation.

Dr. Arryn A. Guy published the primary outcomes paper from her dissertation this winter in Progress in Community Health Partnerships.

Dr. Alexander Sokolovsky published a new paper examining the impacts of COVID-19 related campus closures on the tobacco use of college students.

Drs. Rachel Gunn, Kristina Jackson, Alexander Sokolovsky, Angela Stevens, and Jane Metrik recently published a manuscript examining the effects of substance use ordering on consumption during alcohol and cannabis co-use days.

Dr. Cara Murphy is the second author of "Multidimensional elements of impulsivity as shared and unique risk factors for food addiction and alcohol misuse" published in Appetite.

Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS, professor of behavioral and social sciences and medicine, was invited to serve on FDLI’s 2021 Tobacco and Nicotine Products Committee!

Dr. Sara Becker presented at the 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and AcademyHealth.

"Changes in alcohol consumption among college students due to COVID-19: Effects of campus closure and residential change" was both published and featured in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Dr. Jennifer Tidey was recently elected a 2021 Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).

Dr. Kimberly Goodyear Chavanne will examine, "Understanding the impact of race on public attitudes toward individuals and communities with opioid addiction."

Sara Becker, Ph.D., formally received the 2020 G. Alan Marlatt Mid-Career Research Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Join us in welcoming Dallece (Elena) Curley who will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Carolina L. Haass-Koffler!

A team of faculty and staff from the School of Public Health and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine have the lead article in a special issue of the American Psychologist.

Dr. Carolina Haass-Koffler was interviewed by Indy (The College Independent Hill) on the rising fentanyl crisis in the US!

Dr. Jacob Van den Berg recently published in Journal of Men's Health!

Dr. Jennifer Merrill & former CAAS Postdoc Dr. Carpenter recently published a manuscript on the impact of not only amount, but also rate of alcohol consumption during drinking events, on alcohol-related consequences.

Dr. Treloar Padovano recently published an article in Psychological Science titled, "The Altered Course of Learning: How Alcohol Outcome Expectancies are Shaped by First Drinking Experiences" with co-authors, Drs. Tim Janssen, Alexander Sokolovsky, and Kristina M. Jackson.

Dr. Carolina L. Haass-Koffler was recently published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research Journal for her paper, "Differences in Sociodemographic and Alcohol‐Related Clinical Characteristics Between Treatment Seekers and Nontreatment Seekers and Their Role in Predicting Outcomes in the COMBINE Study for Alcohol Use Disorder."

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies has featured Associate Professor and Director of the New England ATTC, Dr. Sara Becker, as their Research Spotlight!

Dr. Tara White and her White Lab Team just published a groundbreaking new paper on brain compounds signalling emotional wellness in healthy people in NeuroImage!

Dr. Treloar Padovano recently published a paper titled, "Incubation of alcohol craving as it naturally occurs in a developmentally diverse sample of dependent and nondependent drinkers" in Addiction Biology!

The Center for Alcohol and Addiction studies is thrilled to welcome the new Fall 2020 Postdoctoral Fellows who will spend the next few years focused on innovative research, advanced dissemination and implementation strategies, and public education.

We are thrilled to welcome three recently hired staff members to the Brown CAAS team, Sharon Lang, Ellaina Reed, and Mika Salas!

Drs. Jennifer Tidey & Patricia Cioe recently worked in collaboration with colleagues at Vermont Center on Behavior and Health and Johns Hopkins University on a study that found lowering nicotine decreases addictiveness of smoking in vulnerable populations!