Annual Symposium

***A detailed program for the 2025 UF CARE Annual Symposium can be found here***

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Event Location: Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, DeWeese Auditorium (Directions)

Event Program: 

8:00 am        Coffee & Registration: MBI Foyer

8:30 am        Welcome: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101) Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D. Director, UF CARE

8:45 am        Concurrent Panels: Session 1 

10:10 am      Concurrent Panels: Session 2   

11:35 am       Lunch & Round Table Discussions (Boxed lunches, if reserved, outside of LG-101.)

12:45 pm      Overview of the UF Center for Addiction Research & Education: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101) Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D. Director, UF CARE

1:00 pm       Keynotes: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101)

Paul Kenny, PhD

Professor and Chair

Department of Neuroscience

Director, Drug Discovery Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Talk Title: Cellular Mechanisms of Drug Craving 

Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.

Professor and Chief or Psychology Section

Department of Psychiatry Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center

Yale School of Medicine

Talk Title: How Does Stress and Trauma Promote Addiction Risk and Relapse? Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics to Improve Treatment Outcomes

***A Zoom link is available for the Keynote Speakers only, register for the Zoom link here***

3:30 pm       Poster session: HPNP Atrium

 

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