2019-11-25

[#DIV28SUPER] 2 UVM POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES- University of Vermont NIH Postdoctoral Fellowships

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

 

The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health in the UVM College of Medicine announces two NIH postdoctoral research fellowship opportunities in our internationally recognized center of excellence for drug abuse research.

 

Working with Dr. Stephen Higgins, the fellow will participate in the conduct of an ongoing NIDA/FDA-funded trial on the use of tobacco in vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, as well as develop new research opportunities in related areas.

 

Working with Dr. Stacey Sigmon, the fellow will help to lead ongoing randomized clinical trials evaluating low-barrier, technology-assisted buprenorphine treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), as well as develop new research opportunities aimed at expanding OUD treatment access in rural, underserved areas.

 

Drs. Higgins and Sigmon, VCBH colleagues and our 30-year training program have an exceptional track record of helping fellows to establish successful careers as independent investigators.

 

Eligibility: Applicants must have completed their training in psychology or a related discipline and be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Outstanding trainees are selected on the basis of scholastic record, productivity and commitment to a career in drug abuse research. Individuals must be highly motivated, possess initiative and a strong desire to learn and expand their interests and expertise.

 

Appointment: 2-3 yrs.

 

Benefits: Stipend, medical insurance coverage, and travel funds supported by NIH Institutional Training Awards.

 

To apply: Send application form (downloaded from VCBH website), a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and 3 letters of reference to: Dr. Stephen Higgins or Dr. Stacey Sigmon, c/o Ms. Marissa Palmer (marissa.palmer@uvm.edu).

 

About us: The VCBH was established in 2013 with the primary aim of investigating relationships between personal behaviors and risk for chronic disease and premature death, with a specific focus on understanding mechanisms underpinning risk, and developing effective interventions and policies to promote healthy behavior. The VCBH resides within the UVM Department of Psychiatry, with additional investigators, collaborators, and advisors across 15 academic departments across the UVM College of Medicine, 7 UVM colleges, and 5 other universities. The VCBH is further strengthened by interdisciplinary collaborations with key community healthcare leaders and distinguished scientific advisory panels.

 

For more information: Contact Ms. Marissa Palmer, marissa.palmer@uvm.edu or see our website.

 

Burlington, Vermont is located in the beautiful Lake Champlain region, surrounded by the Green and Adirondack Mountains. Burlington is home to a thriving arts scene, creative entrepreneurship, great shopping, three colleges and a university, and a full range of four-season outdoor pursuits (www.vermontvacation.com). Montreal and Boston are also within easy driving distances.

 

 

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Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D.
Director, Vermont Center for Behavior and Health
Professor and Virginia H. Donaldson Chair in Translational Science, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science
University of Vermont
1 South Prospect Street
Burlington, VT  05401-1419

VCBH Administrator: Marissa Palmer, MPH
marissa.palmer@uvm.edu
802-656-0079

[#DIV28SUPER] APA Abstracts Due in One Week!

Hi All,


Abstracts for the 2020 APA convention are due in one week! Time to get your abstracts in before that Thanksgiving tryptophan hits.

The submission portal (https://convention.apa.org/proposals/division-programs) is now open and Division 28 is accepting poster and symposium submissions for the upcoming 2020 APA Convention in Washington, DC. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2019 at 5PM EDT. 

We also would like to remind everyone of a few exciting opportunities for Division 28 members at convention. First, APA has recently made a commitment to emphasizing and supporting interdisciplinary programs and research groups (i.e., one that include at least one non-psychologist member). To this end, APA has indicated that if a non-psychologist speaks at a session as a part of one of these collaborative teams, that individual's registration fee will be waived. These may include traditional research sessions or workshops and sessions on team science designed to benefit graduate students and ECPs (and others) by describing the strengths of such collaborative efforts.

Second, we will once again offer an early career travel award for graduate students, post-docs, and early stage faculty members conducting research on alcohol or other substance use. See the below message for more details on applying.

Finally, APA has traditionally supported graduate student travel to APA through the Science Directorate APA Student Travel Award (https://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-stutrav). Although details on the availability of this opportunity have not been formally shared for the 2020 convention, we will be sure to share this or other opportunities as they are announced.

Hoping to see everyone in Washington, DC next year! Please feel free contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Best,
Justin
Division 28 2020 Convention Program Chair

---------------------------------------------------------
Justin C. Strickland, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Phone: (410) 550-1975


Dear Graduate Students, Post-docs, and Junior Faculty,

If you are doing research on alcohol or other substance use, we would like to invite you to apply for our early career travel award.  This award is for $750 to help defray costs to the 128th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, which will be held August 6-9, 2020, in Washington, DC.  Awards are made possible through funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R13DA049497; PI: Hoeppner) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (renewal under review for R13 AA022858; PI: Hoeppner), which seek to foster the development of the next generation of alcohol and substance use researchers. 
 
To apply, simply submit your proposal via APA's online submission portal as you normally would (https://convention.apa.org/proposals).  You can submit directly to Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) or your home division.  APA's deadline for submission is December 2nd, 2019.
 
To be eligible for the travel award, proposals must focus on alcohol or other substance use or related problems.  Additionally, applicants are required to be the first author on the paper or speaker in the symposium.  You must also be a current graduate student, postdoc or early stage faculty member (within 10 years of receiving your degree).  If your proposal is accepted by your division for presentation, you can apply for the travel award by emailing my Research Coordinator, Ms. Hannah Carlon, at hcarlon@mgh.harvard.edu.  The deadline for applying for this travel award is February 15th, 2020.
 
If funded, presentations will be showcased at an Early Career Investigators Poster Session and Social Hour sponsored by the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50), Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse), NIAAA, and NIDA.  That means that you will present your work twice at APA: during your regularly scheduled time, and additionally at our early career investigator poster session.
 
We strongly encourage you to apply.  We will be able to fund a total of 15 travel awards, and an additional 15 awards may be possible if our NIAAA R13 renewal application is funded.  The Early Career Investigators Poster Session and Social Hour is a superb opportunity to connect with your peers and leading scientists in the field of addiction.  We would love to have you be part at our 2020 Early Career Investigators Poster Session and  Social Hour!
 
All the best,
 
Bettina
 
Bettina B. Hoeppner, Ph.D., MS
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director (Research), Recovery Research Institute, MGH
Director of Biostatistics, Center for Addiction Medicine, MGH
151 Merrimac Street, Boston MA 02114
Office: 617-643-1988 │ Fax: 617-643-7667
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2019-11-22

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[#DIV28SUPER] University of Kentucky Substance Use Research Day


Dear Colleagues-

Please find attached an announcement for the 2nd annual Substance Use Research Day at the University of Kentucky. The abstract submission deadline is one month away. We hope you will consider joining us in Lexington for the event on March 3. 

-Bill Stoops.


               
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email: william.stoops@uky.edu
telephone: (859) 257-5383


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University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Department of Behavioral Science
Department of Psychiatry
Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
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2019-11-15

[#DIV28SUPER] Info Requested Re NIH Clinical Trials

 

Colleagues, Jeremy Wolfe and FABBS are looking to identify researchers who are willing to share their experience preregistering and reporting experimental results in NIH's proposed clinical trials framework. See below – share with your colleagues who may be able to provide insights to help develop a more reasonable policy.

 

Patricia Clem Kobor | Sr. Science Policy Analyst

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Dear All (on my informal NIH Clinical Trials email list) 

Hope life is treating you well. I am hoping you have some ideas for us. "Us" is FABBS (Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences). We are still working to mitigate the not-so-good effects of the NIH's Clinical Trials policy. As you probably know, at the moment, the rules for registering and reporting studies are in abeyance for a couple of years while the NIH tries to develop a sane system of registration. SO…here is where you come in. The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is looking researchers to help them develop registration systems that work.  

We are looking for people who preregistered their studies and have now published these. You don't have to have preregistered in CT.gov. I, for example, have been using the Open Science Framework. 

FABBS has been asked to identify 10 such investigators who are doing work that might be problematic to register in ClinicalTrials.gov. NLM is particularly interested in NIH-funded basic experimental studies involving humans ("BESH") work that has any of these four characteristics.

 

1.           Does the study/project/paper consist of multiple experiments (Exps 1-N in your paper), not just one big "clinical trial".

 

2.           Does the analysis use an outcome measure that was not pre-specified. For example, maybe Reviewer 2 asked for an item analysis or maybe for a new control experiment. That wasin't in the original pre-registration.

 

3.           Does meaningful reporting of the data require recording non-aggregated results (like individual observer data).

 

4.           Does the project includes preliminary experiments that serve largely to optimize procedures.

 

So……do you have some ideas about researchers who we could approach?

Self-nomination is fine….encouraged….They/you would need to give us a bit of time and a bit of documentation. Who can you think of?

 

Many thanks!

 

         Jeremy Wolfe

         And Juliane Baron (FABBS Exec Director)

 

 

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2019-11-12

[#DIV28SUPER] Call for Nominations - Division 28 Awards

Dear Colleagues,

 

 I am writing again to encourage you to submit nomination materials for APA Division 28 Awards for the 2020 APA meeting in Washington, DC.  Attached you will find the official call for nominations with the detailed instructions for each of the three awards:  Med Associates Brady-Schuster Award, Young Psychopharmacologist Award and Outstanding Dissertation Award.  These awards are an excellent way to recognize your outstanding colleagues in science- both the young and more seasoned! The Awards Committee looks forward to seeing this year’s nominees. The deadline for materials is January 15, 2020.  

 

Regards,

Rich

 

Richard Yi, Ph.D.

Director, Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment

Professor, Department of Psychology

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045

Email: ryi1@ku.edu          Phone: 785-864-6476

https://addiction.ku.edu

 

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2019-11-07

[#DIV28SUPER] Fwd: Training Program announcement

Dear Div 28. Please see attached post-doctoral fellowship announcement, open for Fall, 2020.  

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Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:10 PM
Subject: Training Program announcement

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[#DIV28SUPER] Submissions and Travel Awards for APA Convention 2020

Hi All,

As a reminder, the submission portal (https://convention.apa.org/proposals/division-programs) is now open and Division 28 is accepting poster and symposium submissions for the upcoming 2020 APA Convention in Washington, DC. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2019 at 5PM EDT. 

We also would like to share a few exciting opportunities for Division 28 members at convention. First, APA has recently made a commitment to emphasizing and supporting interdisciplinary programs and research groups (i.e., one that include at least one non-psychologist member). To this end, APA has indicated that if a non-psychologist speaks at a session as a part of one of these collaborative teams, that individual's registration fee will be waived. These may include traditional research sessions or workshops and sessions on team science designed to benefit graduate students and ECPs (and others) by describing the strengths of such collaborative efforts.

Second, we will once again offer an early career travel award for graduate students, post-docs, and early stage faculty members conducting research on alcohol or other substance use. See the below message for more details on applying.

Finally, APA has traditionally supported graduate student travel to APA through the Science Directorate APA Student Travel Award (https://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-stutrav). Although details on the availability of this opportunity have not been formally shared for the 2020 convention, we will be sure to share this or other opportunities as they are announced.

Hoping to see everyone in Washington, DC next year! Please feel free contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Best,
Justin
Division 28 2020 Convention Program Chair

---------------------------------------------------------
Justin C. Strickland, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Phone: (410) 550-1975


Dear Graduate Students, Post-docs, and Junior Faculty,

If you are doing research on alcohol or other substance use, we would like to invite you to apply for our early career travel award.  This award is for $750 to help defray costs to the 128th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, which will be held August 6-9, 2020, in Washington, DC.  Awards are made possible through funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R13DA049497; PI: Hoeppner) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (renewal under review for R13 AA022858; PI: Hoeppner), which seek to foster the development of the next generation of alcohol and substance use researchers. 
 
To apply, simply submit your proposal via APA's online submission portal as you normally would (https://convention.apa.org/proposals).  You can submit directly to Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) or your home division.  APA's deadline for submission is December 2nd, 2019.
 
To be eligible for the travel award, proposals must focus on alcohol or other substance use or related problems.  Additionally, applicants are required to be the first author on the paper or speaker in the symposium.  You must also be a current graduate student, postdoc or early stage faculty member (within 10 years of receiving your degree).  If your proposal is accepted by your division for presentation, you can apply for the travel award by emailing my Research Coordinator, Ms. Hannah Carlon, at hcarlon@mgh.harvard.edu.  The deadline for applying for this travel award is February 15th, 2020.
 
If funded, presentations will be showcased at an Early Career Investigators Poster Session and Social Hour sponsored by the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50), Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse), NIAAA, and NIDA.  That means that you will present your work twice at APA: during your regularly scheduled time, and additionally at our early career investigator poster session.
 
We strongly encourage you to apply.  We will be able to fund a total of 15 travel awards, and an additional 15 awards may be possible if our NIAAA R13 renewal application is funded.  The Early Career Investigators Poster Session and Social Hour is a superb opportunity to connect with your peers and leading scientists in the field of addiction.  We would love to have you be part at our 2020 Early Career Investigators Poster Session and  Social Hour!
 
All the best,
 
Bettina
 
Bettina B. Hoeppner, Ph.D., MS
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director (Research), Recovery Research Institute, MGH
Director of Biostatistics, Center for Addiction Medicine, MGH
151 Merrimac Street, Boston MA 02114
Office: 617-643-1988 │ Fax: 617-643-7667

2019-11-04

[#DIV28SUPER] University of Alabama at Birmingham is hiring multiple faculty positions in Addiction (open rank)

Please see the ad below and feel free to pass on to others who may be interested. We are hiring several positions in addiction.

 

Join the UAB team and help us improve the health of Alabama and the Southeast

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine (SOM) is leading the recruitment of multiple investigators (up to 15) for a major strategic increase in its portfolio across clinical and translational re-search efforts to conduct observational and interventional studies aimed at improving health outcomes broadly across the population of Alabama, the Southeast region, the United States, and globally. Recruitment is for tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-earning faculty at all ranks and includes academic appointment in one or more of 27 academic departments across the SOM, many of which rank in the top 10 nationally in NIH funding. All applications will be considered, but priority will be given to those with emphasis (or focused) in: Value-Based Care, Public Health, Health Informatics, Digital Health, Implementation Science, Behavior Change, Health Economics, and Rural Health. Particular areas of focus currently include: Health Behaviors (e.g. Physical Inactivity, Poor Nutrition, Obesity), Infectious Diseases, Screening and Prevention in Primary Care, Health Care Quality Improvement, Mental Health, Infant Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, Kidney Diseases, Diabetes, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Cancer Outcomes, and Health Disparities.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines of the State, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $7 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with more than 23,000 employees; it supports more than 64,000 jobs statewide. With more than 1,300 full time faculty and almost 1,200 medical and graduate students, the UAB SOM ranks 21st nationally in NIH research funding and in the top 10 for all public institutions. Research grant funding at UAB exceeded $527 million in 2018.

UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), which supports translational research and creates a supportive environment to promote junior investigators. The vision of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) and its tristate Partner Network is to reduce health dis-parities in diseases disproportionately represented within the Deep South. The CCTS works closely with local constituencies to address health issues of particular significance to our region and share best practices in pursuit of community engaged studies to enhance culturally sensitive participation, safety, confidentiality and effectiveness. The CCTS is also committed to the conduct of ethical, scientifically rigorous clinical and translational research by providing a range of specialized services, resources and expertise and by catalyzing collaborative, coordinated data analytics and informatics that meet the needs of its scientific constituencies across the Partner Network and the CTSA consortium.

The scientists recruited through this initiative are expected to establish outstanding, independent academic programs supporting all of the core missions of the University: research, education, and service. They will work individually and collaboratively to undertake innovative scientific discovery, grow extramural funding, engage in and promote education of learners at all levels, and support the critical service missions of the University in delivering and improving health care.

Applicants must upload their Curriculum Vitae, one page letter of interest, and 3 professional references to https://uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/5517. Application deadline is December 5, 2019. Review of applications will continue until all positions are filled. Applicants must have an MD, PhD or MD/PhD. Selected applicants will join a diverse and vibrant academic community that values and is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and must be able to work in a team environment.

UAB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and family-friendly environment in which all faculty and staff can excel and achieve work/life balance irrespective of, race, national origin, age, genetic or family medical history, gender, faith, gender identity and expression as well as sexual orientation. UAB also encourages applications from individuals with disabilities and veterans.

A pre-employment background investigation is performed on candidates selected for employment. In addition, physicians and other clinical faculty candidates who will be employed by the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation (UAHSF) or other UAB Medicine entities, must successfully complete a pre-employment drug and nicotine screen to be hired.

 

Thank you,

 

Karen

 

Karen Cropsey, Psy.D.

Conatser Turner Endowed Professor of Psychiatry

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Address:

1670 University Blvd

Volker Hall, Suite L107

Birmingham, AL 35233

 

Email: kcropsey@uab.edu

Phone: 205-975-4204

 

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

 

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