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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!

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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