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CENTURY
Yale University
School of Medicine
SAC-203
Connecticut
Mental Health Center
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519

Phone:
203-974-7591

Fax:
203-974-7606

E-mail:
infocentury@yale.edu

Calendar

Here are some upcoming dates of interest:

CENTURY/TTURC Seminar Series

We are sponsoring a series of seminars in room S-216, 2nd floor of the Substance Abuse Center at CMHC on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 12:00-1:00 PM (unless otherwise noted on the schedule). For more information, please contact Amy Blakeslee at (203) 974-7591 or amy.blakeslee@yale.edu. The seminar schedule that follows was current as of January 8, 2003. Please call or write to confirm details.

January 28
David Musto, Ph.D.,
Professor, Child Psychiatry
Yale University Child Study Center
"The History of Tobacco Use in America"

February 11
Gary Wand, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


February 25
Norbert Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
Yale University
"The Tobacco Industry Internal Documents: What They Are, How The Public Got Them, What They Tell Us, How To Search Them"

March 11
Sarah King, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

March 25
Joel Gelernter, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
VA Medical Center

April 1
Ken Warner, Ph.D.
University of Michigan


April 15
Neill Epperson, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

April 22
Saul Shiffman, Ph.D.
University of South Florida

May 6
Thomas Brandon, Ph.D.
University of South Florida

May 20
Sherry McKee, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

Past events include:

Yale/Brown Retreat:
On Friday, October 18th, the Yale and Brown TTURCs had a retreat to explore the possibility of further project collaborations and overlapping research areas.

Discussion of possible areas of collaboration included:

		animal research findings informing human studies,
		human lab studies informing animal studies,
		policy and economics,
		tobacco treatment and pharmacology.

The agenda included overviews of both centers, and in-depth presentations by senior investigators from each center on specific topics. The presentations were followed by detailed discussions about how the work presented might be expanded, complemented or otherwise used as the focus for additional collaborative work.

To find out more about the retreat, please read the agenda.

For more information on and directions to the meeting place, you can go to http://www.watersedgeresortandspa.com.

Partners TTURC Site Visit:
Representatives from the national program office met with members of the larger TTURC group, with the communications group and with the policy group.

NIDA Site Visit:
On Nov. 14th and 15th, we hosted a NIDA site visit.

Alcohol and Tobacco Use community conference:
This November 2002 conference, sponsored by both the Yale TTURC and the Yale Center for Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism, focused on the consequences of alcohol and tobacco and what we know about effective prevention and treatment methods for these disorders. This is an effort by the two Yale Centers to work with local and regional leaders in support of education about alcohol and tobacco and the importance of research.

January 28 to 30. 2003 The TTURC Partners Winter Meeting was held at the Inn at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This meeting focused on the TTURCs presenting results from their research studies. Each center give a 45-minute presentation. To find out more about the inn, go here, http://www.hotelloretto.com. To find out more about Sante Fe, go here, http://santafe.org/index.html.