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Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies

Our mission is to promote the identification, prevention, and effective treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems in our society through research, education, training, and policy advocacy.

Center Leadership

Peter M. Monti, Ph.D., Center Director

Suzanne Colby, Ph.D., Associate Director
Jeffrey Griffin, Associate Director, Finance and Administration
Christopher Kahler, Ph.D., Associate Director of Biostatistics
Damaris Rohsenow, Ph.D., Associate Director
Robert Swift, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director

2011 NIAAA T32 Trainee Workshop

The 2011 NIAAA T32 Trainee Workshop was held at CAAS on September 23-25. The approximately 145 attendees included T32 training directors, predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees from thirty NIAAA- funded training programs around the country. The first evening involved a meeting of training directors and NIAAA program staff and grants administrators. The next day, meeting participants were welcomed by CAAS Director Dr. Peter Monti and Training Director Dr. Suzanne Colby, and then given an update from NIAAA by Acting Director Dr. Kenneth Warren. Dr. Mariela Shirley, Co-Chair of the NIAAA Centers and Training Team at the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, presented Early Career Funding Opportunities for Alcohol Researchers. Twenty-four paper presentations were given by trainees nominated by their training programs across the topics of Alcohol Consumption, Risks, Consequences, and Intervention in Young Adults; Effects of Acute and Chronic Alcohol Consumption on Neurotransmission, Cognition, and Learning; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Translational Research; FMRI Studies; Genetic and Environmental Factors. Jordan Braciszewski and Golfo Tzilos, current CAAS fellows were Co-Chairs of the CAAS planning committee, and CAAS fellows played a major role in organizing the seminars, including two career development panels on communication with the media and negotiating research positions. Additional trainee research was displayed in an actively attended poster session. CAAS was proud to be selected to be the site for this meeting, which was funded by NIAAA grant #R13 AA020766 awarded to Dr. Suzanne Colby.


CAAS Training Director Suzanne Colby (3rd from left) with Damaris Rohsenow, PI of the companion NIDA T32 (4th from left), and CAAS postdoctoral fellows (left to right) Jordan Braciszewski, Ashlee Carter, Jessica Nargiso, Elise Clerkin, and Golfo Tzilos while attending the NIAAA Trainee Workshop.

Contacting CAAS

The Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies is located at 121 South Main St., Providence, RI.