We are pleased to announce two new faculty at CASAA:

Timothy Condon, Ph.D. is a Visiting Research Professor on a 2-year detail to CASAA from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Condon will be working with investigators at CASAA and other departments at UNM to help us develop new initiatives in addictions and the criminal justice system, the interface between psychosocial research and human clinical neuroscience, and translational initiatives.

Katie Witkiewitz, Ph.D. will be joining the faculty at CASAA as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology inthe Fall of 2012. Dr. Witkiewitz will be continuing her program of research on advanced analytic approaches to understanding relapse and in the area of mindfulness and recovery.

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Psychology graduate student Kevin Hallgren has been awarded an NIH Ruth Kirschstein National Resesarch Service Award (NRSA) through the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA). The fellowship will provide two years of support for a project that uses network analysis to better understand how drinking problems may be transmitted through social support networks. The results from this project may be useful for more effectively targeting treatments and prevention programs for alcohol use disorders

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Outstanding Training Opportunity Available
Announcement of Postdoctoral Positions: Alcohol Research Training Grant, “Alcohol Research Training: Change Methods & Mechanisms”

CASAA has openings to support postdoctoral positions on our NIAAA Institutional Research Training grant. The goal of the grant is to prepare future NIH scientists to conduct research to (1) elucidate the processes of change in drinking behavior, (2) develop and test effective methods to effect change through self-change, treatment and indicated prevention, and (3) develop and test models to disseminate knowledge of effective interventions to diverse populations. The grant will support 4 pre-doctoral and 3 post-doctoral fellows in 2012-2013. Predoctoral fellows will come from the Department of Psychology. Post-doctoral fellows may come from any discipline relevant to the goals of the training program. Fellows must work with one of the core training faculty: Barbara S. McCrady (PI and training program director), Michael Bogenschutz, Kent Kiehl, Phil May, Theresa Moyers, J. Scott Tonigan, Kamilla Venner, or W. Gill Woodall.

Click here for more information.

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Dr. Barbara McCrady, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, was recently elected to the position of Vice-President/President Elect of the Research Society on Alcoholism© (RSA). The RSA has a national and international membership of almost 2000, and serves as the primary professional society for scientists researching a broad range of issues related to alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. RSA promotes research and dissemination of scientific knowledge about alcohol and alcoholism.

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CASAA research featured in local PBS affiiate KNME's series, "Why did I become a scientist?"
Click here to see video of CASAA Director Dr. Barbara McCrady (Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari required)

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Motivational Interviewing Professional Training DVD Series 1998 is now available for order online. This series of videotapes, produced at the University of New Mexico, provides an introduction to motivational interviewing by the psychologists who developed it. The tapes are intended to be used as a resource in professional training, offering six hours of clear explanation and practical modeling of component skills. Because it is helpful to see how a method is practiced in various contexts, the tapes include clinical demonstrations of the skills of motivational interviewing, showing ten different therapists working with twelve clients who bring a variety of problems.

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CASAA is pleased to announce an internal "grants to get grants program."

Grants of up to $25,000 are available to qualified UNM and UNM-affiliated investigators to support pilot studies and grant writing efforts for addictions-related research. You may download more information here.

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