5th Annual Southern California Addiction Research Retreat-Live

Target Audience

Substance use researchers, students, trainees, physicians, pharmacists, social workers, substance addiction counselors

This is the live event, Click here for the Zoom event.

Parking is free and breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks will be served.

Current schedule is here

This year will include seven training and research programs in Southern California:

• Azusa Pacific University -School of Behavioral & Applied Sciences Psychology Department
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science- Substance Addiction Research Training (SART) and SummerSART
• University of California Irvine -Center for Addiction Neuroscience
• University Of California, Los Angeles -T32 Institutional Training Program
• University of California, Los Angeles -Brain Research Institute and Integrate Substance Abuse Program
• California State University, San Bernardino- Smoke and Tobacco Outreach and Prevention Scholars (STOPS)
• University of Southern California - Rising Stars

1. Recall three current topics in neuroscience addiction research.

2. Distinguish two methods used in clinical-translational addiction research.

3. Analyze the use of GLP-1s in addiction

Featured Keynote Speakers

Ivan Montoya, M.D. M.P.H Director of NIDA’s Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences (DTMC) GLP-1s and Other Areas of Drug Development in Addiction

Edythe D. London, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Thomas P. and Katherine K. Pike Chair of Addiction Studies, University of California Los Angeles When Wanting Overrides Knowing: Four Decades of Imaging the Addicted Brain

Agenda

7:30-8:10 Registration & Breakfast

8:10-8:25 Introduction to Southern California Substance Addiction Research Training Retreat Theodore C. Friedman M.D., Ph.D.

8:25- 9:20 am: Keynote Speaker: Edythe D. London, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Thomas P. and Katherine K. Pike Chair of Addiction Studies, University of California Los Angeles When Wanting Overrides Knowing: Four Decades of Imaging the Addicted Brain

9:20 - 10:20: Highlights of Basic Neuroscience/ Substance Addiction Kendyl Laumann, PhD, UCI Trainee, Luis Gonzalez, MS, CSUSB Trainee, Guy Bar, CDU Trainee Enzo Panem, CDU Trainee

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 am: Highlight of Clinical/ Translation Neuroscience/ Substance Addiction Alexandra Donovan, Ph.D. CDU/UCLA Trainee, Erica Grodin, PhD, UCLA Trainee

11:00 - 12 noon : Keynote Speaker: Ivan Montoya, M.D. M.P.H Director of NIDA’s Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences (DTMC) GLP-1s and Other Areas of Drug Development in Addiction

12:00–12:30 PM: Highlight of Clinical/ Translation Neuroscience/ Substance Addiction 2 speakers

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch and Networking

1:30 - 2:40 pm: Breakout Session A

1. Basic and clinical approaches to brain circuits of addiction

Kate Wassum, PhD, UCLA, Christie Fowler, PhD, UCI, Nicolas Massaly, PhD, UCLA, Cathy Cahill, PhD, UCLA, George Koob PhD, UCSD

2. Detrimental and beneficial and policy effects of Cannabis

Ziva Cooper, Ph.D., UCLA, Elisa Pabon, Ph.D. UCLA, Leslie Amodeo, PhD , CSUSB

3. New nicotine products-pouches, heat not burn, hookah, cannabis, e-cigarettes Adam Leventhal, PhD, USC, Juan Carlos Rivera, PhD, CDU, Jessica Barrington-Trimis, Ph.D., USC, Edythe D. London, PhD, UCLA, Luis Gonzalez, BS, CSUSB, Sam Kim, BA, CDU

2:40– 2:50 Break

2:50-4:00 pm: Breakout Session B:

1. Use of big data research in addiction, Huyen Pham, PhD, MPH, UCLA, Carrie Bearden, PhD, UCLA, Alexandra Donovan, PhD, UCLA/CDU, Sherry Larkins, PhD, UCLA, Shervin Assari, MD, MPH, CDU

2. Emerging use of psychedelics, Brad Conner, Ph.D. Colorado State University, Harriet De Wit, Ph.D. U of Chicago, Conor Murray, Ph.D. UCLA, Beau Kilmer, PhD, RAND

3.1. Clinical Approaches to substance use disorders, Steve Shoptaw, Ph.D.UCLA, Rachel Castaneda, Ph.D., APU, Gyanesh Agrawal, MD, FASAM DHS, Lara Ray, PhD, UCLA

4:00-4:10 pm: Synopsis of Breakout/ Wrap-up/ Evaluation

Event Venue

The California Endowment Center, 1000 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, United States

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