Important Note: There are no registration fees or CEU credit fees. Please note meal prices in the registration form. If you select a meal, you are responsible for the cost. As in previous years, we are making every effort to secure meal sponsorship for early career scientists and graduate students.

"Community, Behavioral and Molecular Sciences in Addictive Disorders"

Friday October 3

7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast & Networking

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

“Risky” Communities/Built & Social Environment

Chair:

Bryan Page, Ph.D.
University of Miami

C0-Chairs:

Yonette Thomas, Ph. D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Joseph Frascella, Ph.D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse

José Szapocznik, Ph.D.
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Rafaela Robles, Ed.D.
Universidad Central del Caribe

Presenters:

William Dressler
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Cultural Congruence, Family, and Genetic Markers – Immediate Social Environment and Its Implications for Depression

Juan Negron
Universidad Central del Caribe

Merrill Singer
University of Connecticut
Drug-related Syndemics and the Risk Environment: Assessing Street Risk among Hispanics in Hartford

Abstract:

Individuals incur health risks through their behavior, but the behaviors that place them at risk are not simply intra-psychic in origin.  Rather, they have origins in several different layers of social environment: the nuclear and extended families of orientation, the network of informal social relations, the community, and ultimately the political economy in which individuals seek to meet their daily needs.  The presenters in this panel will focus on risky social environments, presenting scientific strategies for determining how different aspects of these environments contribute to risky behavior with particular emphasis on providing explanations of how factors of social environment combine to engender certain varieties of health risk.

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Beverage Break

10:15  a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Grant Writing Workshop

Chair:

Yonette Thomas, Ph. D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse

Presenters:

Elisabeth Koss, Ph.D.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Division of Clinical and Population-Based Studies
BGES – Behavior Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section

Jose Guerrier, Ph.D.
Division of Biologic Basis of Disease BSPH – Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Preventing HIV/AIDS Study Section

Ellen Schwartz, Ed.D.
Division of Clinical and Population-Based Studies CIHB – Community Influences on Health Behavior

William Elwood, Ph.D.
Division of Clinical and Population-Based Studies CLPH – Community-level Health Promotion Study Section

Gayle Boyd, Ph.D.
Division of Clinical and Population-Based Studies RPIA – Risk, Prevention and Intervention for Addictions Study Section

Michael Micklin Ph.D.
Division of Clinical and Population-Based Studies
Chief, Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior (RPHB)

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Transition Break

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

National Network Membership Meeting

Chair:

Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D.
Louisiana State University Health Science Center

1:00 p.m. 

Main Conference Adjourns