NOV/DEC 2005
Volume 11 - No. 4
SRNT Newsletter
Advancing Science & Health
Nov/Dec 2005, Volume 11, Number 4
Update on Plans for the 12th
Annual SRNT Meeting
February 15-18, 2006
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Keynote Address: On Thursday, February 16th, Dr. Robert West, Director of Tobacco Studies and Professor of Health Psychology, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, will deliver the keynote address, entitled "What use are theories and models in understanding and combating nicotine dependence?"
Clinical Theme Lecture: Dr. Caryn Lerman, Mary W. Calkins Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Director of the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a lecture entitled "Pharmacogenetic Approaches to Nicotine Dependence Treatment", which will also be on Thursday, February 16.
Pre-Clinical Theme Lecture: Dr. Trevor Robbins, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, will deliver a lecture entitled "Neuropsychological models of psychomotor stimulant use, abuse, and addiction" on Friday, February 17.
Public Health/Epidemiology Theme Lecture: Dr. Prabhat Jha, Canada Research Chair in Health and Development, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Director, Centre for Global Health Research, and St. Michael's Hospital Research Scholar, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, will deliver a lecture entitled "Tobacco use and global poverty: Evidence and action" on Saturday, February 18.
Awards Addresses: As recipient of the 2006 Langley Award for Basic Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Dr. William Corrigall, of Corrigall Consulting, Thornhill, ON, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, will deliver an address entitled "Nicotine Addiction: Discovery Research Then and Now" during the Awards Presentation session. Recipient of the 2006 Young Investigator Award, Dr. Bernard Le Foll, a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, will deliver an address entitled "Targeting conditioning processes to reduce tobacco smoking".
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In addition to the main scientific program, there will be two exciting pre-conference satellite meetings on Wednesday, February 15. There is no cost for participating in either meeting, however space is limited and pre-registration is required. Links are provided below for pre-registration:
National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for Nicotine Addiction - A NIDA Synthesis Meeting. This NIDA-sponsored meeting will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will highlight the range of ligand discovery and development research from basic science to clinical trials currently funded under the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups (NCDDG). Please visit http://conferences.masimax.com/srnt05 for more information and to pre-register.
Addressing Tobacco in Health Care National Forum: Translating Health Services Research into Practice and Policy: This meeting will be held from 1:00-5:00 pm and is being coordinated by the Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care National Program Office and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This pre-conference will provide tobacco control researchers, health services researchers, and others with the opportunity to discuss two emerging opportunities in systems changes and tobacco control: the upcoming PHS Guideline update and applying lessons from tobacco to other health risk behaviors. Please visit www.atmc.wisc.edu for the agenda and registration information.
There will also be several workshops and panel discussions offered during the lunch break on Monday and Tuesday. Workshop proposals are being solicited and will be announced prior to the meeting. If you would like to organize a workshop for the annual meeting, please contact the Program Chair, Suzanne Colby, at Suzanne_Colby@brown.edu.
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Suzanne Colby is an Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School. Her appointment is at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, where she conducts biobehavioral and clinical research with adolescent smokers. Her research interests are in the areas of adolescent tobacco dependence, withdrawal, and cessation approaches.