BCAR Seminars | Bridging Connections in Addiction Research

Upcoming Seminars

September 11, 2024: ABCD Study
Duncan Clark, MD, PhD
November 13, 2024: The Pittsburgh Multiplex for AUD Study: A family-based study for gene discovery, brain variants and addictive behaviors
Shirley Hill, PhD
December 11, 2024: Creating a patient-centered measure of access to medications for opioid use disorder - Paul Joudrey, MD
Addiction Science & Rural Disparities: Bridging the Gap in Health Equity - Erin Winstanley, PhD

January 10, 2024

Vicious circle of chronic pain and opioid dependence
Bradley K. Taylor, PhD

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February 14, 2024

America’s Opioid Problems: How an Ecosystem Approach Can Help to Stem the Tide
Bradley Stein, MD, PhD, MPH

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March 13, 2024

Does stimulant treatment for ADHD increase risk of substance use/SUD?
Brooke S.G. Molina, PhD and Traci M. Kennedy, PhD

April 10, 2024

The risks and benefits of prescribing benzodiazepines for people who use opioids
Tae Woo (Ted) Park, MD

September 13, 2023: Sexual & Gender Minority Youth & Young Adult Alcohol Epidemiology & Prevention
Robert Coulter, PhD
October 11, 2023: Mechanisms of plasticity within prefrontal cortex relevant for next-generation addiction treatments
Max Joffe, PhD
November 8, 2023: Prescription drug restrictions and their impacts on mortality
Coleman Drake, PhD and J. Travis Donahoe, PhD
December 13, 2023: Healing-centered approaches to address alcohol-involved sexual violence on college campuses
Elizabeth Miller, MD

January 11, 2023: Translational Approaches for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD
February 8, 2023: Simulation Models of Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose
Mark Roberts, MD and Michaela Rikard, PhD
March 8, 2023: Identifying Sensory Processing Mechanisms that Underly Pain and Its Clinical Variability
Sarah Ross, PhD and Ben Alter, MD, PhD
April 12, 2023: A Multi-Pronged Approach to Predict Drug Interactions and Optimize Drug Dosing in Pregnancy, an Understudied Population
Raman Venkataramanan, PhD and Nupur Chaphekar
May 10, 2023: Research at the Intersection of Substance Use and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Natacha De Genna, PhD and Emily Dauria, PhD, MPH

September 14, 2022: Challenges of Conducting Clinical Addiction Research: Making Lemonade out of Lemons
Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH
October 12, 2022: Acute Nicotine Reinforcement Requires Ability to Discriminate the Stimulus Effects of Nicotine
Ken Perkins, PhD
November 9, 2022: Addictive Behaviors in the Perinatal Period: Eating- and Pain-Related Issues
Grace Lim, MD, MS and Michele Levine, PhD
December 14, 2022: Advancing Addiction Treatment Services Grounded in Harm Reduction
Raagini Jawa, MD, MPH and Paul Joudrey, MD, MPH

January 21, 2022: Improving treatment for opioid use disorder in pregnancy
Marian Jarlenski, PhD, MPH, and Elizabeth Krans, MD, MSc
February 18, 2022: Novel approaches for identifying biological predictors of alcohol-related health outcomes
Gavin Arteel, PhD and Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, PhD
March 18, 2022: Developing and Implementing Opioid Overdose Risk Prediction Tools
Walid Gellad, MD
May 20, 2022: Turn away from the risk paradigm!
Michael Vanyukov, PhD

September 17, 2021: Challenges in Managing and Preventing Pain (CHAMPP) Clinical Research Center
Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD, Hailey Bulls, PhD and Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS
October 15, 2021: Cross-generational Transmission of Risk for Alcohol and Other Substance Use Disorders
Shirley Hill, PhD
November 19, 2021: Psychiatry: Meet the PI
Sarah Pederson, PhD

January 21, 2021: Improving Cue Exposure Therapy for Addiction: New Human and Animal Methods to Examine and Attenuate Drug-Cue Conditioning
Mary Torregrossa, PhD and Cynthia Conklin, PhD
March 19, 2021: Nicotine exposure and reinforcement in adolescence: understanding behaviors in rats and humans
Alan Sved, PhD and Jaime Sidani, PhD, MPH
April 16, 2021: Examination of acute alcohol effects
Sarah Pedersen, PhD and Michael Sayette, PhD
May 21, 2021: Frontiers in cannabis research: detection and dispensary practices
Alex Star, PhD and Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD

October 16, 2020: COVID-19 and Substance Use: Research Updates and Funding Opportunities
Kevin Kraemer, MD; Stina Mair, MSEd; and Ryan Logan, PhD
November 20, 2020: Studying mechanisms of risk for alcohol and other substance use disorders across developmental stages: The Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study
Brooke Molina, PhD and Christine Walther