Student News
Sandy Cohen: CARS Graduate Student Next Step: October, 2011
Mr. Sandy (Alexander) Cohen, former Center for Addictions Research and Services Research Assistant, recently accepted a position at The Institute for Healthcare Improvement as a Research Associate for their Results & Evaluation team.
AHSR Presentations: October, 2011
Ivy Krull, CARS Doctoral Candidate, recently completed three presentations of Center work at the Addictions Health Services and Research conference in Fairfax, VA.
More information can be found here:
http://www.gmuace.org/documents/announcements/AHSR%20Preliminary%20Agenda.pdf
Domestic Violence Training Completed: February, 2011
Ms. Mindy D’Ippolito, Center for Addictions Research and Services Research Assistant, recently attended a Domestic Violence training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This training focused on the legal options/responses from incident to prosecution.
More information can be found here:
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/About_BWH/communityprograms/Passageway.aspx
Quarterly Meeting Attended: 1st Quarter, 2011
Mr. Sandy (Alexander) Cohen, Research Assistant at the Center for Addictions Research & Services and Intern at the Joint Committee on Mental Health & Substance Abuse in the Massachusetts State Legislature, attended the first quarterly meeting in 2011 of the Massachusetts Interagency Council on Substance Abuse and Prevention, featuring honorary guest speaker Frances M. Harding, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
More information can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/4a53bup
Student Presentations: 2010
Masters Students Ms. Nika Ancukiewicz, and Ms. Clelia Beltrame, Mr. Steven Garte-Wolf, and Doctoral Candidate Ms. Ivy Krull completed presentations on new substance abuse research in 2010. Conferences included: Addictions, APHA, AHSR and the TCE-HIV SAMHSA Conference.