2021 Annual Conference

Here's a look back at our 9th Annual VCBH Conference.

Videos and Slides are available as noted. Please contact us with any questions.

Conference Agenda and Speakers

Download this year's conference program (PDF)

Thursday, October 7, 2021

8:30 - 8:40 AM	Video Slides Opening Remarks: Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont
8:40 - 8:50 AM	Welcome: Patricia A Prelock, PhD, Senior Vice President and Provost, University of Vermont
8:50 - 8:55 AM	Video Welcome: United States Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont
9:00 - 11:25 AM	Paper Session 1 - Video Session Chair: Jennifer Tidey, PhD, Professor of Behavioral and Social Science, Associate Dean for Research, Brown University School of Public Health

	9:00 - 9:25 AM	Digital Interventions (Slides - PDF) Amanda Graham, PhD, Chief of Innovations, Truth Initiative; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
	9:30 - 9:55 AM	*Quitlines* (Slides - PDF) Christine Sheffer, PhD, Director of Research and Evaluation Roswell Park Cessation Services, Professor of Oncology, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
	10:00 - 10:25 AM	E-cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: The Latest Cochrane Evidence (Slides - PDF) Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford; Editor, Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group
	10:30 - 10:55 AM	Impacts of State-Level Tobacco Flavor Bans (Slides - PDF) Michael Siegel, MD, Visiting Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
	11:00 - 11:25 AM	Audience Q&A

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Keynote Address - Video

Innovations to Reduce Cigarette Smoking (Slides - PDF)

Neal L Benowitz, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 - 3:55 PM

Paper Session 2 - Video

Session Chair: Elias Klemperer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

	1:30 - 1:55 PM	Smoking Cessation Among Those with Mental Illness (Slides - PDF) Judith (Jodi) Prochaska, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
	2:00 - 2:25 PM	Smoking-Cessation Reach and Effectiveness (Slides - PDF) Danielle E. McCarthy, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
	2:30 - 2:55 PM	Medication Sampling and Smoking Cessation (Slides - PDF) Matthew Carpenter, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
	3:00 - 3:25 PM	Smoking Cessation with Pregnant Women: Financial Incentives (Slides - PDF) Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont
	3:30 - 3:55 PM	Audience Q&A

4:00 - 4:15 PM	Break
4:15 - 5:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Group 1: Youth and Young Adults - Video Group 2: Smoking and Cardiac Rehabilitation - Video Group 3: Changes in CPD - Video
5:00 - 5:15 PM	Break
5:15 - 6:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Group 1: ENDS - Video Group 2: Incentives and Opioid Use - Video Group 3: Behavioral Economics - Video

Friday, October 8, 2021

8:00 - 10:25 AM

Paper Session 3 - Video

Session Chair: Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

	8:00 - 8:25 AM	Potential Anticipated and Unanticipated Impacts of FDA Bans on Characterizing Flavors in Cigarettes and Cigars (Slides - PDF) Kevin Schroth, JD, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers University School of Public Health
	8:30 - 8:55 AM	Reducing Smoking in Disadvantaged and Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations (Slides - PDF) Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, FACP, Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
	9:00 - 9:25 AM	Potential Effects of a Menthol Ban on Smoking Behavior in Menthol Cigarette Smokers (Slides - PDF) Michael Kotlyar, PharmD, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
	9:30 - 9:55 AM	Potential Impact of a Menthol Ban on Smoking Prevalence (Slides - PDF) K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
	10:00 - 10:25 AM	Audience Q&A
10:30 - 10:45 AM	Break

10:45 - 12:00 PM

Paper Session 4 - Video

Session Chair: Dustin Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

	10:50 - 11:15 AM	Potential Impacts of Menthol Ban on Cigarette Smoking in Disadvantaged and Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations (Slides - PDF) Shyanika W. Rose, PhD, MA Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Behavioral Science and Center for Health Equity Transformation
	11:20 - 11:45 AM	Hypothetical Impacts of Flavored Cigar Sales Restrictions on Cigar Use Behavior (Slides - PDF) Julia Chen-Sankey, PhD, MPP, Assistant Professor, Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health
	11:50 - 12:00 PM	Audience Q&A

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Lunch and Learn - Video
presented by the UVM Center on Rural Addiction (CORA)

Rural Vaping and Tobacco Use: Prevalence, Considerations, and Interventions

Lunch Session Chair: Stacey Sigmon, PhD, CORA Director and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

Growing Disparities Between Rural and Urban Smoking in the US (Slides - PDF)
Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
The Prevalence of Smoking and Vaping Among Rural Youth And Promising Approaches For Addressing It (Slides - PDF)
Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Feasibility of a Remotely-Delivered Contingency Management Intervention for Vaping Abstinence among Young Adults (Slides - PDF)
Bethany Raiff, PhD, BCBA-D, Director, Health and Behavioral Integrated Treatments (HABIT) Research Unit, Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Science and Mathematics, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM), Rowan University

1:15 - 3:15 PM

Paper Session 5 - Video

Session Chair: Eric Thrailkill, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

	1:20 - 1:45 PM	Nicotine Reduction and Smoking (Slides - PDF) Eric C. Donny, PhD, Director, Tobacco Control Center of Excellence, Professor, Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest University
	1:50 - 2:15 PM	Nicotine Reduction and Smoking in Vulnerable Populations (Slides - PDF) Jennifer Tidey, PhD, Professor of Behavioral and Social Science, Associate Dean for Research, Brown University School of Public Health
	2:20 - 2:45 PM	Messaging Around Nicotine Content in Cigarettes (Slides are unavailable) Andrea C. Villanti, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
	2:50 - 3:15 PM	Audience Q&A
	3:15	ADJOURN