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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.
December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction
Dr. Kathleen Carroll
Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
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January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
February 9, 2009, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
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Home > About OBSSR > Staff
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Kay Wanke, PhD, MPH
Health Scientist Administrator
Dr. Kay Wanke, PhD, MPH, joined the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research in July 2008. Previously she served as a health scientist administrator in the Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Epidemiology, Prevention and Services Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Dr. Wanke received her PhD in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Her training in clinical psychology includes child psychology, forensic psychology, substance abuse, serious mental illness, marriage and family therapy, and developmental and neuropsychological assessment. She initially came to NIH in 2001 after being selected to the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). While in that fellowship, she completed her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition, while at NCI, she received further training in tobacco control, genetics and behavioral genetics.
At NIDA, Dr. Wanke’s portfolio of grants covered the areas of tobacco, genetic and behavioral epidemiology, and novel and improved phenotypes of tobacco and other drugs of abuse. She led a trans-NIH funding opportunity as part of the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative for the development of innovative technologies for measurement of psychosocial stress and addictive substances. She has also served on a number of working groups and committees including the NIDA Genetics Consortium Steering Committee.
Dr. Wanke’s research has covered a variety of topics including tobacco use and depression, factors associated with adherence, strategies to improve smoking phenotype definition and behavioral genetics of smoking cessation.
Contact Details
Email: wankek@mail.nih.gov
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