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- Thursday
- date:
- 04/09/2020
- time:
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- event:
- CANCELLED-Pharmacology Seminar by Rita Valentino
- area:
- location:
- PINN 1-17
- type:
- Seminar
- department:
- Pharmacology
- services:
- audience:
- Faculty Students
- details:
- Hosted by John Lazo, Rita Valentino, PhD is the Director of the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior (DNB), National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Valentino, leads program staff to set a vision that advances the basic and clinical research mission of NIDA to elucidate the neurobiological underpinnings of substance abuse from the molecular to behavioral level and to discover approaches for treating it. She bridges DBN with DTMC and DESPR by promoting translation from target discovery to drug development and by using epidemiology to inform research directions. She represents NIDA on trans-NIH initiatives including BRAIN, SPARC, Neuroscience Blueprint and Sex as a Biological Variable. Her career spans 26 years of academic, research, and leadership experience in neuropsychopharmacology and stress neurobiology. She previously directed the Stress Neurobiology Division within the Department of Anesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and was a professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Dr. Valentino is particularly recognized for her research on the effects of social stress and the impact of sex, age and coping style on behavioral and cognitive health, and how this can determine vulnerability to substance use.
- URL:
- http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/organization/divisions/division-basic-neuroscience-behavioral-research-dbnbr/office-director-od
- isCME:
- No
- speakers:
- Rita Valentino, PhD, Director, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior (DNB), National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland
- registration:
- No registration is necessary
- contact:
- Antoinette Reid Pharmacology 434-924-1919 adw2n@virginia.edu
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