VCBH Lecture Series
VCBH Lecture Series
This lecture series was created for the greater UVM community 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.
| Speaker | Date | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Tidey, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Brown University School of Public Health | September 17, 2025 | Video |
| Robert Schnoll, PhD Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine | November 19, 2025 | Video |
| Elia Klemperer, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science University of Vermont | December 10, 2025 | Video |
| David Farabee, PhD Research Professor, Department of Population Health NYU Grossman School of Medicine | January 21, 2026 | Video |
| Craig Rush, PhD Professor, Department of Behavioral Science Department of Kentucky College of Medicine | February 18, 2026 | Video |
| Lara Coughlin, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of Michigan Addiction Center | March 18, 2026 | Register |
| Karen Cropsey, PsyD Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology University of Alabama at Birmingham | April 15, 2026 | |
| Lauren Pacek, PhD Assistant Professor Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies | May 20, 2026 |
CME/CE
In support of improving patient care, The Robert Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The University of Vermont designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Archive of Previous Lecture Series
Academic Year 24-25 Lecture Series
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| 2024-2025 Lectures | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
Sherrie Khadanga, MD Novel Therapeutics for Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and Heart Failure: Practical Recommendations | September 18, 2024 | Video |
Joseph McClernon, PhD Are Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements, and Does it Matter? | November 20, 2024 | Video |
Hugh Garavan, PhD Update and Lessons Learned from the ABCD Study | December 18, 2024 | Video |
Richard Rawson, PhD Contingency Management as a Public Health Intervention: Scaling Up CM to Treat Stimulant Use Disorder | January 15, 2025 | Video |
Michael Amlung, PhD Application of Behavioral Economics to Investigate Contextual Influences on Alcohol and Cannabis Use | February 19, 2025 | Video |
Joanna Streck, PhD Contingency Management as a First Line Public Health Intervention: Scaling Up CM to Treat Stimulant Use Disorder | March 19, 2025 | Video |
Ryan Vandrey, PhD Evaluating the Health Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use | April 16, 2025 | Video |
Katie Witkiewitz, PhD The Dynamic Behavioral Ecological Model of Recovery from Substance Use Disorder | May 21, 2025 | Video |
Academic Year 23-24 Lecture Series
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| 2023-2024 Lectures | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
Sherry McKee, PhD Women & Alcohol: What does stress have to do with it? | November 15, 2023 | Video |
Alan Budney, PhD The Changing World of Cannabis Consumption and Cannabis Regulation | December 20, 2023 | Video |
Denise Hien, PhD Leveraging data science to advance treatment research for PTSD and substance use disorders | January 17, 2024 | Video |
Erin Winstanley, PhD Overdose-related Compassion Fatigue in Rural Communities | February 21, 2024 | Video |
CANCELLED | March 20, 2024 | |
Jessica Cook, PhD Engaging People Not Ready to Quit in Smoking Treatment: Evidence-Based Approaches | April 17, 2024 | Video |
Michele Staton, PhD An overview of the Kentucky Women’s Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) | May 15, 2024 | Video |
Academic Year 22-23 Lecture Series
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| 2022-2023 Lectures | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
Steven Shoptaw, PhD Contingency Management, HIV and MSM: Current Status | September 21, 2022 | Video |
Quinn Pack, MD Smoking Cessation in Cardiac Patients | November 16, 2022 | Video |
Alexandra Potter, PhD Insights about Substance Use from Developmental Neuroimaging Studies: An Update from the ABCD and HBCD Studies | December 21, 2022 | Video |
Tracy Smith, PhD Tobacco Regulation Across the Continuum of Harm | January 18, 2023 | Video |
Brian Sprague, PhD Mammography Screening Utilization in Vermont and Beyond: Long-Term Trends and COVID-19 Impacts | February 15, 2023 | Video |
Philip Ades, MD Exercise and Aging | March 15, 2023 | Video |
Paul Oh, MD, FRCPC Health Literacy in Cardiovascular Rehab: Bridging Gaps for Better Health Outcomes | April 19, 2023 | Video |
Kimber Richter, PhD, MPH Changing the Default: Moving to an Opt-Out Approach for Treating Tobacco Use Disorders | May 17, 2023 | Video |
Academic Year 21-22 Lecture Series
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| 2021-2022 Lectures | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
Warren Bickel, PhD The Experimental Tobacco Marketplace: Contemporary Status | September 15, 2021 | Video |
Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder | November 17, 2021 | Video |
Mark Bouton, PhD Context, Behavior Change, and Habit Learning | December 15, 2021 | Video |
Leonard Epstein, PhD A Behavioral Economic Approach to Exercise Reinforcement | January 19, 2022 | Video |
Ryan Vandrey, PhD 411 on Cannabis Edibles | February 16, 2022 | Video |
Kirk Dombrowski, PhD Understanding the Conflict Between Withdrawal and Disease Avoidance in the Risk Networks of People who Inject Drugs in Rural Puerto Rico: A Network Statistical Approach | March 9, 2022 | Video |
Sandra Comer, PhD Pharmacology of Fentanyl and Its Implications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder | April 20, 2022 | Video |
Tera Fazzino, PhD Crossing Fields to Make Scientific Connections: Reinforcement Processes in Addiction, Binge Eating, and Obesity | May 18, 2022 | Video |
Academic Year 20-21 Lecture Series
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| 2020-2021 Lectures | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
James Murphy, PhD Novel Behavioral Economic Approaches for Measuring Substance Use Severity and Motivating Change | September 16, 2020 | Video |
Kenneth Silverman, PhD Utility of Operant Conditioning to Address Poverty-Related Health Disparities | November 18, 2020 | Video |
Richard Rawson, PhD Psychostimulants 2020: An Update | December 16, 2020 | Video |
Mary Whooley, MD Heart and Soul and Cardiac Rehabilitation | January 20, 2021 | Video |
Brandon Marshall, PhD Social, Structural, and Environmental Drivers of the Opioid Overdose Crisis | February 17, 2021 | Video |
Peter Hajek, MA, PhD E-cigarettes and Smoking Cessation: Can E-cigarettes Speed Up the Demise of Smoking? | March 17, 2021 | Video |
Sudie E. Back, PhD Integrated, Exposure-Based Treatment of Co-Occurring PTSD and Substance Use Disorders | April 21, 2021 | Video |
Diann Galeema, PhD Secondary Prevention of Heart Disease: A Focus on Smoking and Socioeconomic Status | May 26, 2021 | Video |
Prior Year Lectures
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| Lecture | Date | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Heil, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, University of Vermont | May 20, 2020 | Unavailable |
Betsy Hoza, PhD Leaving the Ivory Tower: Can Physical Activity Help Manage ADHD Symptoms in the 'Real World?' | February 19, 2020 | Video |
Alan Budney, PhD Cannabis Misuse and Cannabis Use Disorder: Prevention and Intervention Approaches | January 15, 2020 | Unavailable |
Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA Eliminating Tobacco Dependence in the United States: A Clinical and Policy Path to Achieve that Goal | December 13, 2019 | Video |
Robert Althoff, MD, PhD Assessing Risk for Suicide in Healthcare Settings: Development and Testing of Novel Approaches | November 20, 2019 | Video |
Greg Miller, PhD Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of the Health Consequences of Childhood Poverty | September 18, 2019 | Video |
Daniel Forman, MD 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 Significance Testing is the Reason that Scientific Results have Poor Reproducibility | May 15, 2019 | Video |
Elizabeth Evans, PhD Addressing Opioid Use Disorders Over the Life Course Among Criminally Involved Adults | April 10, 2019 | Video |
JoEllen Tarallo, EdD and Thomas Delaney, PhD Introduction to the Zero Suicide Framework: Suicide Safe Pathways to Care | March 15, 2019 | Unavailable |
Benjamin Bearnot, MD Meeting People Who Use Drugs Where They Are: Career Development in Addiction Research and Implementation | February 13, 2019 | Video |
Andrew Stokes, PhD Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths | January 23, 2019 | Unavailable Related Article |
Mary Brunette, MD Using Technology to Address Smoking in Disadvantaged Populations | December 19, 2018 | Video |
Sherry Grace, PhD Strategies to Increase Utilization of Cardiac Rehabilitation | November 14, 2018 | Unavailable |
David Holtgrave, PhD 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 The Multi-faceted Impact of Vaping on Population Health: Implications for Precision Regulation | May 16, 2018 | Video |
Kelly Dunn, MS, PhD Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Evaluating and Maximizing Pharmacotherapies | April 18, 2018 | Video |
Richard Rawson, PhD 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 Trauma and Suicide in Denmark: Current Understanding and Future Directions | January 17, 2018 | Video |
Matthew Price, PhD 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 Sex Differences in Nicotine Use Disorder: Findings from Neuroimaging | November 16, 2017 | Unavailable |
Michelle Lofwall, MD Clinical Research Pertinent to Rural Populations Affected by the Opioid Epidemic | September 20, 2017 | Video |
Steve Keteyian PhD Cardiac Rehabilitation: Improving on an Already Successful Intervention | May 17, 2017 | Video |
Brad Appelhans, PhD The Challenge of Temptation in Management in Obesity Control | April 26, 2017 | Unavailable |
Michael Toth, PhD Muscle Disuse During Aging and Physically Disabling Events: Physiology and Interventions | April 12, 2017 | Unavailable |
Holly Hagan, PhD Toward Eliminating Hepatitis C Virus Infection in People who Inject Drugs | February 15, 2017 | Video |
Gordon Jensen, MD, PhD Overweight and Obesity: Impact of Metabolic Risk Upon Health and Mortality Outcomes | January 18, 2017 | Video |
Elise Weerts, PhD Neuroimaging, Genetic and Pharmacological Approaches | December 2, 2016 | Unavailable |
Neal Cohen, PhD Human Memory, Hippocampus, and Navigating Life | November 16, 2016 | Unavailable |
Eric Slade, PhD Economic Assessment Approaches for Implementation and Dissemination Studies in Psychiatry | September 21, 2016 | Unavailable |
JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH Women and Cardiovascular Disease: The Power of Prevention | May 11, 2016 | Unavailable |
Robert Schwartz, MD Entry and Engagement in Opioid Agonist Treatment | April 27, 2016 | Unavailable |
Kai Ling Kong, PhD Obesity Prevention: It's Never Too Soon to Start | March 23, 2016 | Video |
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD Changing the Landscape of Nicotine Addiction and Tobacco Harm | March 16, 2016 | Video |
Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD Challenges in Evaluating the Impact of Modifiable Behaviors on Breast Cancer Prevention | February 17, 2016 | Unavailable |
Rick Rawson, PhD Exercise as a Treatment Intervention for Methamphetamine Dependence | January 20, 2016 | Video |
Cynthia Rand, PhD Take this Pill Twice a Day Forever: Adherence in the Age of Polypharmacy, Chronic Illness and Multi-morbidity | December 16, 2015 Co-hosted with UVM Psychiatry Grand Rounds | Unavailable |
Rodger Kessler, PhD An Emerging Bold Standard for Conducting Relevant Research in a Changing World | November 18, 2015 | Unavailable |
Steven F. Maier, PhD Behavioral Control Blunts Reactions to Contemporaneous & Future Adverse Events: Medial Prefrontal Cortex Plasticity & A Corticostriatal Network | October 9, 2015 | Unavailable |
Howard Rachlin, PhD Altruism: A Behavioral Analysis | September 16, 2015 | Unavailable |
Alan Blum, MD Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General's Report | August 26, 2015 | Video |
John Ware Jr., PhD Standardizing and Integrating Disease-specific and Generic Patient-reported Outcome Measures | June 24, 2015 | Unavailable |
Mary Cushman, MD The Simple 7 Approach to Health | April 15, 2015 | Unavailable |
Xiaozhong Wen, PhD Developmental Origins of Obesity: Pre-Postnatal Tobacco Exposure as an Example | March 18, 2015 | Unavailable |
Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD Obesity Interventions in Underserved Populations: What Works and What Doesn't | February 18, 2015 | Unavailable |
Isabelle Desjardins, PhD Suicide Risk Assessment in Hospitals: an Expert System Based Triage Tool | December 17, 2014 | Unavailable |
Kenneth Silverman, PhD Incentives & Health: The Application of Operant Conditioning in Health Promotion | November 19, 2014 | Unavailable |
Jesse Dallery, PhD Digital & Behavioral Technology to Promote Health Behavior | September 17, 2014 | Unavailable |
John Jakicic, PhD If Obesity is a Disease, Is Physical Activity an Effective Lifestyle Treatment? | June 24, 2014 | Unavailable |
Gene Heyman, PhD What drug users have taught us about addiction–and why the lessons are often ignored | May 20, 2014 | Unavailable |
James MacKillop, PhD Understanding Addictive Behavioral using Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics: A Translational Approach | April 15, 2014 | Unavailable |
Tricia Leahey, PhD Financial incentives and social networks for obesity treatment | March 28, 2014 Co-hosted with UVM Psychiatry Grand Rounds | Unavailable |
Leslie John, PhD Capitalizing on Irrationality | February 18, 2014 | Unavailable |
Carl Hart, PhD Challenging Assumptions about Drugs | January 21, 2014 | Unavailable |
Matthew Johnson, PhD Delay Discounting: Innovation in Understanding Risk Behavior | December 13, 2013 | Unavailable |
Sarah Heil, PhD Buprenorphine for Treating Opioid-Dependent Pregnant Women: Behavioral Pharmacology in Action | November 18, 2013 | Unavailable |
Alan Budney, PhD Incentives in the treatment of substance use disorders and beyond | October 14, 2013 | Unavailable |
Jack Henningfield, PhD Tobacco use as an exemplar of what can be accomplished with behavior changes: Challenges ahead | September 26, 2013 | Unavailable |