Training
Seminars
The Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar, offered during the fall and spring semesters through UC Berkeley as course number PH 202G, is part of the training program's core curriculum and presents current studies and lectures on the basics of methodology, prevention, and epidemiology. This seminar, currently taught by Lee Kaskutas, DrPH and Sarah Zemore, PhD of ARG also features presentations by nationally renowned scientists in the field of alcohol research. "Brown Bag" lunch seminars are also offered where fellows have the opportunities for informal discussions with speakers.
Location:
Alcohol Research Group
6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400
Emeryville, CA 94608-1010
(510) 597-3440
Date & Time:
Tuesdays, 12:20 - 1:50pm
August 31
Maria Dinis, PhD, MSW
Professor
MSW Admissions Director
Division of Social Work, University of California, Sacramento
Topic: Alcohol consumption and sedative use among Portuguese social workers: A professional liability/vulnerability?
September 7
William A. Vega, PhD (Enrichment Speaker)
Executive Director, Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, University of Southern California
Provost Professor of Social Work, Psychiatry, Preventative Medicine, Family Medicine and Gerontology, University of Southern California
Topic: Therapeutics vs. social determinants: which way forward for health disparities research?
September 14
Amani M. Nuru-Jeter, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Divs. of Community Health and Human Development and Epidemiology
UC Berkeley
Topic: Socioeconomic position and mortality: for whom is there a gradient
September 21
Kurt C. Organista, PhD
Professor, School of Social Welfare
UC Berkeley
Topic: The urgent need for structural environmental models of HIV risk and prevention with Latinos: The case of migrant day laborers
September 28
Rhonda Jones-Webb, PhD (Enrichment Speaker)
Associate Professor, Div. of Epidemiology and Community Health
Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Topic: Restricting high alcohol content beverages in urban areas
October 5
Thomas Greenfield, PhD
Scientific Director
Alcohol Research Group
Topic: Alcohol Policy (Overview)
October 12
Discussion
October 19
No Seminar this week
October 26
Friedner D. Wittman, PhD
President
CLEW Associates
Topic: Prevention of community AOD problems through management of AOD risk environments: Prospects and challenges for local control
November 2
Jason Bond, PhD
Senior Biostatistician
Alcohol Research Group
Topic: Practical examples of the use and interpretation of item response theory
November 9
Cynthia Campbell, PhD, MPH
Research Scientist
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland
Topic: Chronic Pain: Challenges in substance abuse and research opportunities
November 16
Jennifer Mertens, PhD
Research Scientist
Drug and Alcohol Research Team (DART), Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland
Topic: Prevalence and comorbidities of alcohol problems and moving interventions into primary care
November 23
Jane Witbrodt, PhD
Associate Researcher, Alcohol Research Group
Doctoral Candidate, Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Topic: Understanding Alcoholics Anonymous utilization in longitudinal samples of treated and untreated problem and dependent drinkers
November 30
Dennis McCarty, PhD (Enrichment Speaker)
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine
School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Topic: Changing treatment for opioid dependence: Studies of buprenorphine adoption
December 7
Discussion
