The purpose of the TTURC Partners pre-conference meeting is to highlight the research findings emerging from the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers and to discuss the challenges and promises of conducting transdisciplinary tobacco-use research.
The pre-conference will include 2 symposia, and feature presentations across multiple disciplinary perspectives and from each of the seven TTURC Research Centers.
AGENDA
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8:30-8:40 |
Introduction - Welcome and goals for day |
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8:40-9:00 |
The Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs): A transdisciplinary conceptual framework (Brown University, Abrams) |
II |
Morning Session: Lifespan risk and adolescence as a critical period of tobacco use vulnerability |
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9:00-9:25 |
Elevated risk of tobacco dependence among offspring of mothers who smoke during pregnancy: A 30-year prospective study
Presenter: Stephen Buka, Brown University/Harvard University |
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9:25-9:50 |
Animal models on adolescent smoking initiation
Presenter: Francis Leslie, University of California, Irvine |
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9:50-10:15 |
Contextual influences on adolescent smoking
Presenter: Larry Jamner, University of California, Irvine |
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10:15-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-10:55 |
Social, psychological, and genetic contributions to adolescent smoking progression
Presenter: Janet Audrain-McGovern, University of Pennsylvania |
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10:55-11:20 |
Cultural factors affecting adolescent smoking prevention
Presenter: Jennifer Unger, University of Southern California |
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11:20-12:00 |
Discussion of morning sessions |
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12:00-1:15 |
Lunch |
III |
Afternoon Session: Treatment advances and mechanisms |
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1:15-1:40 |
Animal models and nicotine replacement therapy
Presenter: Mark LeSage, University of Minnesota |
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1:40-2:05 |
Individualizing nicotine replacement therapy based on genetic and nongenetic factors
Presenter: Caryn Lerman, University of Pennsylvania |
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2:05-2:30 |
A dose ranging study of naltrexone augmentation of transdermal nicotine patch: Effects on smoking, weight gain, and heavy drinking
Presenter: Stephanie O'Malley, Yale University |
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2:30-2:45 |
Break |
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2:45-3:10 |
Smoking cessation treatment: efficacy and mechanisms
Presenter: Michael Fiore, University of Wisconsin |
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3:10-3:30 |
Translating reduced exposure and reduced risk approaches into policies
Presenter: Dorothy Hatsukami, University of Minnesota |
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3:30-4:30 |
Discussion of afternoon session |
IV |
Closing and Final Integration of Transdisciplinary Work |
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5:00 |
Adjournment |
If you are interested in attending the pre-conference meeting, please sign-up through SRNT (www.srnt.org).
OVERVIEW
Tobacco use is a complex biopsychosocial problem, and combating it requires the combined contributions of many disciplines. Recognizing these complexities and faced with increasing rates of adolescent smoking during the 1990s and stagnating rates of adult smoking, an increasing number of researchers started to call for a transdisciplinary approach to the study of tobacco use. Transdisciplinarity is a process by which researchers work jointly using a shared conceptual framework that draws together discipline-specific theories, methods, and measures.
In 1999, seven Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) were established through joint funding of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Drug Abuse. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided additional support to the TTURCs, through their "Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers Program" to support tobacco-related policy research and communications activities at the funded TTURCs. The overall goal of the TTURC initiative is to stimulate integrated research that will significantly advance our understanding of tobacco use and nicotine addition, and to help translate the results and implications of this work for policy makers, practitioners, and the public.
The seven universities currently funded through the TTURC Partners program are: Brown University, University of California at Irvine, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, and Yale University. Research at each of these funded centers will be presented.
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