VCBH Lecture Series: Archived Lectures

The VCBH lecture series was created for the greater UVM community as a way to interact and engage with top researchers in the intersectional fields we often work with at VCBH including, but not limited to, behavior change, addiction, chronic disease, and health disparities for vulnerable populations. 

 

Here you can find slides and/or videos of previously held lectures. *This page is being updated*

 

Completed Lectures DatePresentation

Sarah Heil, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Vermont Center on Behavior and Health
University of Vermont

May 20, 2020

Unavailable

Betsy Hoza, PhD
University of Vermont
"Leaving the Ivory Tower: Can Physical Activity Help Manage ADHD Symptoms in the 'Real World?'"

February 19, 2020

Video

Alan Budney, PhD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
"Cannabis Misuse and Cannabis Use Disorder: Prevention and Intervention Approaches"

January 15, 2020

Slides

Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA
University of Wisconsin
"Eliminating Tobacco Dependence in the United States: A Clinical and Policy Path to Achieve that Goal"

December 13, 2019

Video

Robert Althoff, MD, PhD
University of Vermont
"Assessing Risk for Suicide in Healthcare Settings: Development and Testing of Novel Approaches"

November 20, 2019

Video

Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD -Keynote Speaker
University of Minnesota
Role of Tobacco Harm Reduction in Tobacco Control or Role of Tobacco Product Regulation in Tobacco Control
*7th Annual VCBH Conference

October 10-11, 2019

Unavailable

Greg Miller, PhD
Northwestern University
"Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of the Health Consequences of Childhood Poverty"

September 18, 2019

Slides | Video

Daniel Forman, MD
University of Pittsburgh
"Refining Behavioral and Clinical Approaches to Cardiovascular Care to Better Align With the Needs and Priorities of an Aging Population"

June 26, 2019

Video

Timothy Lash, MPH, DSc
Emory University
"Significance Testing is the Reason that Scientific Results have Poor Reproducibility"

May 15, 2019

Video

Elizabeth Evans, PhD
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Addressing Opioid Use Disorders Over the Life Course Among Criminally Involved Adults"

April 10, 2019

Video

JoEllen Tarallo, EdD and Thomas Delaney, PhD
Center for Health & Learning, & Vermont Suicide Prevention Center and University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
"Introduction to the Zero Suicide Framework: Suicide Safe Pathways to Care"

March 15, 2019

Unavailable

Benjamin Bearnot, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Meeting People Who Use Drugs Where They Are: Career Development in Addiction Research and Implementation"

February 13, 2019

Video

Andrew Stokes, PhD
Boston University
"Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths"

January 23, 2019

Unavailable
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Mary Brunette, MD
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
"Using Technology to Address Smoking in Disadvantaged Populations"

December 19, 2018

Video

Sherry Grace, PhD
York University
Strategies to Increase Utilization of Cardiac Rehabilitation

November 14, 2018

Slides

Keynote Speaker: Sharon Walsh, PhD
University of Kentucky
"Deploying Science and Ethics to Change Hearts and Minds: The American Opioid Crisis"
*6th Annual VCBH Conference

October 11-12, 2018

Unavailable

David Holtgrave, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"History and Status of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the US: Applications of Policy Modeling and Implementation Science"

September 19, 2018

Unavailable

Adam Leventhal, PhD
University of Southern California
"The Multi-faceted Impact of Vaping on Population Health: Implications for Precision Regulation"

May 16, 2018

Video

Kelly Dunn, MS, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Evaluating and Maximizing Pharmacotherapies"

April 18, 2018
Video

Richard Rawson, PhD
University of Vermont/UCLA
"Evaluation of Vermont's Hub and Spoke Opioid Addiction Treatment System"

February 2, 2018
*Co-hosted with UVM Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Video

Jaimie Gradus, DSc, MPH
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
"Trauma and Suicide in Denmark: Current Understanding and Future Directions"

January 17, 2018

Video

Matthew Price, PhD
University of Vermont
"Methods to Assess and Treat Psychopathology in the Acute Post Trauma Period"

December 1, 2017
*Co-hosted with UVM Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Video

Reagan Wetherill, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Sex Differences in Nicotine Use Disorder: Findings from Neuroimaging"

November 16, 2017

Unavailable

Mitch Zeller, JD - Keynote Speaker
Director, FDA Center for Tobacco Products
"FDA's New Comprehensive Plan for Nicotine Regulation"
5th Annual VCBH Conference

October 5, 2017

Unavailable

Michelle Lofwall, MD
University of Kentucky
"Clinical Research Pertinent to Rural Populations Affected by the
Opioid Epidemic"

September 20, 2017

Video

Steve Keteyian PhD
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
“Cardiac Rehabilitation: Improving on an Already Successful Intervention”

May 17, 2017

Video

Brad Appelhans, PhD
Rush University
"The Challenge of Temptation in Management in Obesity Control"

April 26, 2017

Unavailable

Michael Toth, PhD
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont
"Muscle Disuse During Aging and Physically Disabling Events: Physiology and Interventions"

April 12, 2017

Unavailable

Holly Hagan, PhD
New York University
"Toward Eliminating Hepatitis C Virus Infection in People who Inject Drugs"

February 15, 2017

Video

Gordon Jensen, MD, PhD
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont

"Overweight and Obesity: Impact of Metabolic Risk Upon Health and Mortality Outcomes"

January 18, 2017

Video

Elise Weerts, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"Neuroimaging, Genetic and Pharmacological Approaches
towards Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder Risk and Treatment"
Co-sponsored by Psychiatry Grand Rounds

December 2, 2016

Unavailable

Neal Cohen, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Human Memory, Hippocampus, and Navigating Life"

November 16, 2016

Unavailable

Kelly D. Brownell, PhD - Keynote Speaker
Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
"Harnessing Research to Maximize Impact on Public Policy” 
4th Annual VCBH Conference

October 6, 2016

Unavailable

Eric Slade, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
“Economic Assessment Approaches for Implementation and Dissemination Studies in Psychiatry"

September 21, 2016

Unavailable

JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH
Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine
Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health
Harvard Medical School
"Women and Cardiovascular Disease: The Power of Prevention"

May 11, 2016

Unavailable

Robert Schwartz, MD
Medical Director, Senior Research Scientist
Friends Research Institute
"Entry and Engagement in Opioid Agonist Treatment"

April 27, 2016

Unavailable

Kai Ling Kong, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate Department of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Medicine
University of New York, Buffalo
"Obesity Prevention: It's Never Too Soon to Start"

March 23, 2016

Video

Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry 
University of Minnesota
"Changing the Landscape of Nicotine Addiction and Tobacco Harm"

March 16, 2016

Video

Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD
Professor, Population Health Sciences Program Leader for Cancer Control, Carbone Cancer Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Challenges in Evaluating the Impact of Modifiable Behaviors on Breast Cancer Prevention"

February 17, 2016

Unavailable

Rick Rawson, PhD
Retired Co-Director, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences 
"Exercise as a Treatment Intervention for Methamphetamine Dependence"

January 20, 2016

Video

Cynthia Rand, PhD
Associate Dean for Faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Take this Pill Twice a Day Forever: Adherence in the Age of Polypharmacy, Chronic Illness and Multi-morbidity"

December 16, 2015

Unavailable

Rodger Kessler, PhD
University of Vermont
"An Emerging Bold Standard for Conducting Relevant Research in a Changing World"

November 18, 2015

Unavailable

Steven F. Maier, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder
"Behavioral Control Blunts Reactions to Contemporaneous & Future Adverse Events: Medial Prefrontal Cortex Plasticity & A Corticostriatal Network”

October 9, 2015

Unavailable

Howard Rachlin, PhD
Stony Brook University
"Altruism: A Behavioral Analysis"

September 16, 2015

Unavailable

Alan Blum, MD
University of Alabama
"Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General's Report"

August 26, 2015

Video

John Ware Jr., PhD
University of Massachusetts
“Standardizing and Integrating Disease-specific and Generic Patient-reported Outcome Measures"

June 24, 2015

Unavailable

Mary Cushman, MD
University of Vermont
“The Simple 7 Approach to Health”

April 15, 2015

Unavailable

Xiaozhong Wen, PhD
University of Buffalo
“Developmental Origins of Obesity: Pre-Postnatal Tobacco Exposure as an Example”

March 18, 2015

Unavailable

Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Obesity Interventions in Underserved Populations: What Works and What Doesn't"

February 18, 2015

Unavailable

Isabelle Desjardins, PhD
University of Vermont
"Suicide Risk Assessment in Hospitals: an Expert System Based Triage Tool" 

December 17, 2014

Unavailable

Kenneth Silverman, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Incentives & Health: The Application of Operant Conditioning in Health Promotion”

November 19, 2014

Unavailable

2nd Annual VCBH Conference
Behavior Change, Health and Health Disparities

 October 2-3, 2014

Unavailable

Jesse Dallery, PhD
University of Florida
"Digital & Behavioral Technology to Promote Health Behavior"

September 17, 2014

Unavailable

John Jakicic, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
“If Obesity is a Disease, Is Physical Activity an Effective Lifestyle Treatment?” 

June 24, 2014

 

Unavailable

Gene Heyman, PhD
Boston College
"What drug users have taught us about addiction–and why the lessons are often ignored"  

May 20, 2014

 

Unavailable

James MacKillop, PhD
University of Georgia
"Understanding Addictive Behavioral using Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics: A Translational Approach"

April 15, 2014

Unavailable

Tricia Leahey, PhD*
The Miriam Hospital & Brown Medical School
"Financial incentives and social networks for obesity treatment"
*Psychiatry Grand Rounds

March 28, 2014

Unavailable

Leslie John, PhD
Harvard Business School
"Capitalizing on Irrationality"

February 18, 2014

Unavailable

 

Carl Hart, PhD
Columbia University
"Challenging Assumptions about Drugs" 

January 21, 2014

Unavailable

 

Matthew Johnson, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"Delay Discounting: Innovation in Understanding Risk Behavior" 

December 13, 2013


Slides

 

Sarah Heil, PhD
University of Vermont
"Buprenorphine for Treating Opioid-Dependent Pregnant Women: Behavioral Pharmacology in Action"

November 18, 2013

Unavailable

 

Alan Budney, PhD
Dartmouth College
"Incentives in the treatment of substance use disorders and beyond"

October 14, 2013


Slides

 

Jack Henningfield, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Pinney Associates
"Tobacco use as an exemplar of what can be accomplished with behavior changes: Challenges ahead"

September 26, 2013


Slides

 

VCBH's 1st Annual Behavior Change ConferenceSeptember 26-27, 2013Unavailable