News and Events
News and Events
Dr. Coughlin and the CHOICE team are leading a new quality improvement project to address health disparities related to cigarette smoking among Medicaid recipients throughout Michigan
Check it out HERE!
Dr. Lara Coughlin and Dr. Anne Fernandez have received an NIH funded R34 grant to pilot statewide smartphone incentive program: Cultivating Recovery: A Pilot Study of Digital Contingency Management for Co-occurring Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorder. This grant is funded through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative and focuses on using a digital contingency management intervention to help address polysubstance use, specifically opioid and alcohol use. Read more about it in the U-M Press Release!
Drs. Lara Coughlin and Anne Fernandez are speaking on Digital Contingency Management for Substance Use Disorders on January 21, 2025 from noon-1 PM on Zoom as part of the Opioid Settlement Technical Assistance Collaborative. Learn more here.
Dr. Devin Tomlinson led a paper summarizing the outcomes of qualitative interviews completed by Chelsea Wilkins, LMSW and Dr. Lara Coughlin. Tobacco Cessation Champions were invited to the interview to help the team better understand the barriers and opportunities to improving tobacco cessation services in Michigan.
See citation: Tomlinson, D. C., Wilkins, C., Bayrakdarian, N., Dolecki, F., Jr, Bonar, E. E., Fernandez, A., Tzilos Wernette, G., & Coughlin, L. N. (2025). Michigan tobacco cessation champions: A rapid qualitative analysis. Preventive Medicine Reports, 49(102945), 102945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102945
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund is providing funding to support Incentives2Quit, an incentive-based tobacco treatment program led by Dr. Lara Coughlin. Learn more about Incentives2Quit.
Conferences
May 21, 2024: Dr. Lara Coughlin, Dr. Tomlinson, and Chelsea Wilkins, LMSW facilitated a workshop, "The Tobacco Endgame: What does this mean for peers?" at the Michigan Peers Conference in Novi, M
October 9, 2024: Dr. Devin Tomlinson recently was accepted to and participated in the FAIR Summit for d3c. Her presentation was titled “Contingency Management for Alcohol Use with Micro-Randomized Messages and Reinforcers”.
Trainee Accomplishments
Natalie Bayrakdarian led a paper centered on the outcomes of the acceptability and feasibility of a mobile behavioral economic health intervention to reduce alcohol use in adults in rural areas
See Citation Below:
Bayrakdarian, N. D., Bonar, E. E., Duguid, I., Hellman, L., Salino, S., Wilkins, C., Jannausch, M., McKay, J. R., Staton, M., Dollard, K., Nahum-Shani, I., Walton, M. A., Blow, F. C., & Coughlin, L. N. (2024). Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile behavioral economic health intervention to reduce alcohol use in adults in rural areas. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 11, 100225.
Sahana Lothumalla conducted research in the 2023 and 2024 MD Anderson CPRIT CURE Summer Research Program and presented in both 2023 and 2024 Summer Research Conferences
See Citation Below:
Lothumalla, S., Islam, S., Netto, F., Xie, T., Akhter, S., Debnath, K., Myers, B., Miller, J., Hutchinson, K., & Amit, M. (2023). Association of cholinergic nociceptive nerve population on functional outcomes of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
Lothumalla, S., Miertschin, L., McCarthy, W., Kottukkal, T., Ciacciofera, N., Debnath, K. C., Sathishkumar, H., Naara, S., Netto, F., & Amit, M. (2024). Cancer-associated neuroplasticity and dendritogenesis. Head and Neck Surgery.
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