Strategic Training Fellows in Tobacco Use in Special Populations

2004

Michael Chaiton, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
The relationship of depression and smoking cessation in the longitudinal panel study of the National Population Health Survey (NPHS)

Khumar Huseynova, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Smoking among patients with Schizophrenia

Anna Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
The role of CYP2B6 regulation by nicotine & ethanol on the possible link between nicotine and alcohol dependence

Megan Mahabir, MSc Candidate, University of Toronto
Brain-behaviour relationships mediating each stage of nicotine dependence, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Cameron Norman, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Networking Knowledge: An analysis of process and capacity for knowledge translation in tobacco control (declined)

Eric Siu, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
The role of CYP2E1 in smoking & in elevating the risk for increased alcohol consumption, especially in populations that are dependent on nicotine

Laurie Zawertailo, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Will individuals who are allowed to smoke while on NRT have reduced cigarette craving in response to visual and environmental smoking cues than individuals who are not allowed to smoke on NRT?

2005

Kristi Adamo, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa
Nicotine metabolism gene variants and response to nicotine replacement therapy and behavioural therapy (declined)

Sarwar Hussain, MSc Candidate, University of Toronto
Pharmacotherapy-assisted extinction (Pharmacoextinction): A novel approach to the treatment of nicotine dependence in humans

Meenal Joshi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Effect of nicotine on CYP2E1, an ethanol-metabolizing enzyme in CNS

Megan Shram, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Adolescent vulnerability to nicotine

2006

Russell Callaghan, New Investigator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Nicotine deprivation & substance-use cognitions

Jacqueline Detmar, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Spontaneous abortion is mediated the maternal immune system, hyperstimulated by exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons prior to conception

Alexander Elkader, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Influence of nicotine effects on methadone pharmacodynamics

Magdalena Lagerlund, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario, Psychosocial factors in adolescent & young adult smoking

Bernard Le Foll, New Investigator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Testing a full substitution therapy approach as treatment of tobacco dependence

Amandeep Mann, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, The effects of nicotine on brain CYP2D6 & its involvement in Parkinson's Disease

Jill Mwenifumbo, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Nicotine metabolism, CYP2A6 activity & smoking in African Canadians

Cameron Norman, New Investigator, University of Toronto, Networking Knowledge: An analysis of process & capacity for knowledge translation in tobacco control

Laurie Sellings, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, How does dopamine transmission encode nicotine motivation after chronic nicotine exposure?

Monika Slovinec D'Angelo, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Smoking cessation in cardiac rehabilitation patients - Rapid response to relapse (declined)

Denys Smith, MSc Candidate, University of Northern British Columbia, Treatment referral algorithm for pregnant smokers

Arthur Staroselsky, MD Research Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, RCT of NRT in pregnancy

Jessica Sturgess, MSc Candidate, University of Toronto, Role of beta-2 containing NAChRs in nicotine reward

2007

Nael Al Koudsi, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Influence of CYP2B6 genetic variation on smoking acquisition in adolescents

Sahar Ehtesham, MSc Candidate, University of Toronto, Investigating genetic & biological link between problem/pathological gamblers & tobacco use in humans (declined)

Keyghobad Farid Araki, MD Research Fellow, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Reinforcing effect of nicotine in schizophrenic model of rats

Jibran Khokhar, MSc Candidate, University of Toronto, Cytochrome P450 Induction by nicotine & altered drug metabolisms in special populations

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