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Friday, June 17, 2011
NIDA International Fellowships Programs Alumni Meeting
- Improving the Availability and Use of Youth Risk Data in Predominantly Muslim Countries: Challenges and Strategies
Rushit Ismajli, University of Washington
Mohammed F. Al-Afifi, Substance Abuse Research Center, Palestinian Territories
Rawnak Ibrahem Aqrawi, Ministry of Health, Iraq
Fatima El Omari, Arrazi Psychiatric Hospital, Salé, Morocco
Omar El Shahawy, Virginia Commonwealth University
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program
Steven W. Gust, Director, International Program, NIDA - Implementation of a National Collaborative Center as a Result of International Cooperation
Flavio Pechansky, Chair, CPDD International Committee, and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse Update
David Shurtleff, Acting Deputy Director, NIDA
Science for Global Health: Fostering International Research Collaboration
James E. Herrington, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Progress and Challenges in Building Country-Level Capacity for Comprehensive HIV Prevention for Persons Who Inject Drugs
Richard H. Needle, U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Advances in the Development of Medications To Treat Substance Use Disorders
- Depot Naltrexone To Prevent Opiate Use Relapse
Adam Bisaga, Columbia University
International Research Reports – Basic Science Research
- Craving and Severity of Cannabis Dependence Modulate Brain Responses to Cannabis Cues
Janna Cousijn, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Searching for a Neurobiological Basis for Self-Medication Therapy in ADHD Comorbid With Substance Use Disorders: An In Vivo Study of Dopamine Transporters Using 99mTc-TRODAT-1 SPECT
Claudia Szobot, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Nicotine Modulates Expression of Dynamin 1 in Rat Brain and in SH-SY5Y Cells
Qing Xu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
International Research Reports – Epidemiology/Prevention/Treatment Research
- Cannabis Withdrawal Scale Development: Patterns and Predictors of Cannabis Withdrawal and Associated Distress
David John Allsop, University of New South Wales, Australia - Methodological Issues in Studying Treatment Dose: An Example From the NIDA Clinical Trials Network
Amit Chakrabarti, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, India - Drug Use in Rural China
Qijan Deng, Mental Health Institute of Central South University, China - Evaluating the Impact of Methadone Maintenance Treatment on Heroin Abusers in Taiwan: An 18-Month Follow-Up Study
Tony Szu-Hsien Lee, National Taiwan Normal University - Drug-Related Mortality in the Czech Republic: Novel Methods for Estimation and Their Results
Tomas Zabransky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic - Predicting Factors for Methadone Maintenance Treatment Retention Among Heroin-Dependent Patients in Shanghai, China
Min Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
International Research Reports – HIV/AIDS Research
- Knowledge of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Patients in Substitution Therapy in Bucharest, Romania
Adrian Octavian Abagiu, National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Prof. Dr. Matei Bals," Romania - Naltrexone Plus Behavioral Intervention Compared With Usual Care: Drug Use and HIV Risk Outcomes in Men With Drug-Free Female Partners
David Otiashvili, Addiction Research Center, Union Alternative, Georgia - Social Demography and Behavior Patterns of Serodiscordant Couples in St. Petersburg, Russia
Olga V. Toussova, The Biomedical Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
Forming Collaborations To Build Successful Grant Applications
- Building Effective International Collaborations: HIV and Substance Use Clinical Research
Jeffrey H. Samet, Boston University School of Medicine - The Necessity of International Research Collaborations: The Globalization of Drug Abuse and Its Consequences
David S. Metzger, University of Pennsylvania - International Partnerships for the Long Haul
Richard A. Rawson, University of California, Los Angeles, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs