4th Annual Penn State Addiction Symposium

CAPT Jennifer Fan, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

November 28, 2018 @ 09:00 am to 04:00 pm

Junker Auditorium, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

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The Penn State Addiction Symposium will explore the breadth of preclinical and clinical addiction research that is conducted across Penn State campuses. Penn State faculty and clinician scientists will present their work in the field of addiction via oral presentations and students, faculty and staff will present work via poster presentations. At 9:00am, featured faculty speaker Janet Welsh, PhD, Associate Research Professor in the College of Health and Human Development will present Promoting Evidence Based Programming to Prevent Substance Abuse in Pennsylvania.۝ Over lunch, CAPT Jennifer Fan, JD, PharmD, Acting Deputy Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and SAMHSA۪s Subject Matter Expert on Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse will deliver the keynote address. During the rest of the day, faculty members and clinician/scientists will share their current addiction-related research using brief 5-10 minute data blitz-style presentations, and students, post docs, and faculty members will have an opportunity to present their work in a poster session. All are welcome. To register for the symposium or just the keynote address, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-penn-state-addiction-symposium-tickets-50185964571?aff=PSACTSymposium2018 by November 15th. After that, please email Sarah Ballard (smb42@psu.edu). Lunch will be provided for those who register. If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a talk (faculty), abstracts are due by October 17th. Please contact Sarah (smb42@psu.edu) for submission details. We look forward to promoting addiction as a critical topic of interest and facilitating its integration both within and across disciplines in the medical and basic science arena. We hope to foster connections between and among researchers and clinicians to advance our understanding of the disease and to explore novel avenues for treatment. The Symposium is supported in part by a grant from the Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute for the development of the Addiction Center for Translation, the Addiction Center for Translation, and the Penn State CTSI.

Contact

Sarah Ballard
smb42@psu.edu
717-531-4214