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Sydney Batchelder, PhD
| My current research includes treatments for opioid use disorder and treatments for intersectional vulnerable populations including food insecurity, COVID vaccination, and communicable diseases in individuals with opioid use disorder. My overarching research interests include behavioral pharmacology, contingency management, and health choice behaviors.
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Tyler Erath, PhD | I'm a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Stephen Higgins. My current projects include a contingency management intervention to promote stimulant abstinence in a community-based syringe exchange program and a laboratory-based study assessing the abuse liability of several e-cigarette devices among individuals who smoke cigarettes. | Email | PubMed | CV |

Meredith Gamble, PhD | I started at VCBH in June 2023 and have begun working on two research projects. The first will be examining how a nicotine-limiting standard and very low nicotine content cigarettes may affect former smokers, and the second relates to nutrition in MOUD patients, with the long-term goal of improving prenatal nutrition and folate intake in MOUD patients who are or want to become pregnant.
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Brian Katz, PhD | My current research here at the VCBH includes examining the effects of smoking on executive function, investigating how contingency management can be used to promote cardiac-rehabilitation attendance, and assessments of the pulmonary and cardiac effects of e-cigarettes. | Email | PubMed | CV |

Loren Kock, PhD | My research involves analysis of population- and individual-level data on substance use behaviors in priority populations in order support policies and interventions that can reduce harm and health inequalities. I am primarily working with Prof Sarah Heil and a program of research involving pregnant women experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. | Email | PubMed | CV |

Jonathan "Jay" Schulz, PhD | My research interests include disability and health, behavioral teaching methods in higher education, and community-based participatory research. My current work focuses on identifying and reducing disparities in tobacco use among people with disabilities. | Email | PubMed| CV |