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A look back at our 9th Annual VCBH Conference

 

Videos and slides are linked below where noted. View/download the published brochure (pdf).

 

 

Program Schedule

 

Thursday, October 7

 

8:30 - 8:40 AM

Opening Remarks: Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on  Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont - Video  Slides

 

8:40 - 8:50 AM

Welcome: Patricia A Prelock, PhD, Senior Vice President and Provost, University of Vermont

 

8:50 - 8:55 AM 

Video Welcome: United States Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont

 

9:00 - 11:25 AM

Session 1 - Video

Session Chair: Jennifer Tidey, PhD, Professor of Behavioral and Social Science, Associate Dean for Research, Brown University School of Public Health

 9:00 - 9:25 AM

Digital Interventions - Slides
Amanda Graham, PhD, Chief of Innovations, Truth Initiative; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

 

 9:30 - 9:55 AM

Quitlines - Slides
Christine Sheffer, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation Roswell Park Cessation Services, Professor of Oncology, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

 10:00 - 10:25 AM

E-cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: The Latest Cochrane Evidence - Slides
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford; Editor, Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group

 

 10:30 - 10:55 AM

Impacts of State-Level Tobacco Flavor Bans - Slides
Michael Siegel, MD, Visiting Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

 

 11:00 - 11:25 AM

Audience Q&A

 

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Keynote Address - Video

 

Innovations to Reduce Cigarette Smoking - Slides

Neal L Benowitz, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

 

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 - 3:55 PM

Session 2 - Video

 

Session Chair: Elias Klemperer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

 

 

 1:30 - 1:55 PM

Smoking Cessation Among Those with Mental Illness - Slides
Judith (Jodi) Prochaska, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

 2:00 - 2:25 PM

Smoking-Cessation Reach and Effectiveness - Slides
Danielle E. McCarthy, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

 

 2:30 - 2:55 PM

Medication Sampling and Smoking Cessation - Slides
Matthew Carpenter, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

 

 3:00 - 3:25 PM

Smoking Cessation with Pregnant Women: Financial Incentives - Slides
Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont

 

 3:30 - 3:55 PM

Audience Q&A

 

4:00 - 4:15 PM

Break

 

4:15 - 5:00 PM

Poster Session 1

 

Group 1: Youth and Young Adults - Video

Group 2: Smoking and Cardiac Rehabilitation - Video

Group 3: Changes in CPD - Video

 

5:00 - 5:15 PM

Break

 

5:15 - 6:00 PM

Poster Session 2

 

Group 1: ENDS - Video

Group 2: Incentives and Opioid Use - Video

Group 3: Behavioral Economics - Video

 


Friday, October 8

 

8:00 - 10:25 AM

Session 3 - Video

 

Session Chair: Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

 

 8:00 - 8:25 AM

Potential Anticipated and Unanticipated Impacts of FDA Bans on Characterizing Flavors in Cigarettes and Cigars - Slides
Kevin Schroth, JD, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers University School of Public Health

 

 8:30 - 8:55 AM

Reducing Smoking in Disadvantaged and Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations - Slides
Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, FACP, Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

 

 9:00 - 9:25 AM

Potential Effects of a Menthol Ban on Smoking Behavior in Menthol Cigarette Smokers - Slides
Michael Kotlyar, PharmD, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

 

 9:30 - 9:55 AM

Potential Impact of a Menthol Ban on Smoking Prevalence - Slides
K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina

 

 10:00 - 10:25 AM

Audience Q&A

 

10:30 - 10:45 AM

Break

 

 
10:45 - 12:00 PM

Session 4 - Video

Session Chair: Dustin Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

 

 10:50 - 11:15 AM

Potential Impacts of Menthol Ban on Cigarette Smoking in Disadvantaged and Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations - Slides
Shyanika W. Rose, PhD, MA Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Behavioral Science and Center for Health Equity Transformation

 

 11:20 - 11:45 AM

Hypothetical Impacts of Flavored Cigar Sales Restrictions on Cigar Use Behavior - Slides
Julia Chen-Sankey, PhD, MPP, Assistant Professor, Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health

 

 11:50 - 12:00 PM

Audience Q&A

 

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Lunch and Learn - Video
presented by the UVM Center on Rural Addiction (CORA)

Rural Vaping and Tobacco Use: Prevalence, Considerations, and Interventions

Lunch Session Chair: Stacey Sigmon, PhD, CORA Director and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

  • Growing Disparities Between Rural and Urban Smoking in the US - Slides
    Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
  • The Prevalence of Smoking and Vaping Among Rural Youth And Promising Approaches For Addressing It - Slides
    Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
  • Feasibility of a Remotely-Delivered Contingency Management Intervention for Vaping Abstinence among Young Adults - Slides
    Bethany Raiff, PhD, BCBA-D, Director, Health and Behavioral Integrated Treatments (HABIT) Research Unit, Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Science and Mathematics, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM), Rowan University
1:15 - 3:15 PM

Session 5 - Video

Session Chair: Eric Thrailkill, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

 

 1:20 - 1:45 PM

Nicotine Reduction and Smoking - Slides
Eric C. Donny, PhD, Director, Tobacco Control Center of Excellence, Professor, Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest University

 

 1:50 - 2:15 PM

Nicotine Reduction and Smoking in Vulnerable Populations - Slides
Jennifer Tidey, PhD, Professor of Behavioral and Social Science, Associate Dean for Research, Brown University School of Public Health

 

 2:20 - 2:45 PM

Messaging Around Nicotine Content in Cigarettes - Slides unavailable
Andrea C. Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

 

 2:50 - 3:15 PM

Audience Q&A

 

 3:15 PM

ADJOURN

 



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