Raymond S Niaura
Raymond S Niaura
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Dr. Raymond Niaura is a psychologist and an expert on tobacco dependence and treatment, as well as substance use and addiction to alcohol. Dr. Niaura researches the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories. He also evaluates behavioral and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation, with a particular interest in cessation in disadvantaged population to address public health disparities in tobacco-related burdens of illness and disability.
For eight year, Dr. Niaura was the Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative, where he also supervised the pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Dr. Niaura has previously taught and conducted research at Brown University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Georgetown Medical Center, and the School of Public Health at University of Maryland. He was also a former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is a Deputy Editor of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
With grants from the National Institutes of Health, numerous foundations, and private industry, Dr. Niaura has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and book chapters, including the book The Tobacco Dependence Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices.
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Education
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BA, Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Montreal, CanadaMS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJPhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Honors and awards
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Research Laureate, American Academy of Health Behavior (2009)University Scholar Award, McGill University (1979)
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Areas of research and study
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving PoliciesEvaluationsHealth DisparitiesSubstance AbuseTobacco Control
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Publications
Publications
Smoking cessation treatment on the Internet : Content, quality, and usability
Failed retrieving data.Thinking about craving : An experimental analysis of smokers' spontaneous self-reports of craving
Failed retrieving data.Who am I? The role of self-conflict in adolescents' responses to cigarette advertising
Failed retrieving data.A family history of smoking predicts heightened levels of stress-induced cigarette craving
Failed retrieving data.A study of depressive symptoms and smoking behavior in adult male twins from NHLBI twin study
Failed retrieving data.An academic detailing intervention to disseminate physician-delivered smoking cessation counseling : Smoking cessation outcomes of the Physicians Counseling Smokers Project
Failed retrieving data.Are metabolic risk factors one unified syndrome? Modeling the structure of the metabolic syndrome X
Failed retrieving data.Assessing the transtheoretical model of change constructs for physicians counseling smokers
Failed retrieving data.Assessment to inform smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Associations between repression, general maladjustment, body weight, and body shape in older males : The normative aging study
Failed retrieving data.Brief behavioral treatment
Failed retrieving data.Depressive symptoms and metabolic risk in adult male twins enrolled in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study
Failed retrieving data.Does the DRD2-Taq1 A polymorphism influence treatment response to bupropion hydrochloride for reduction of the nicotine withdrawal syndrome?
Failed retrieving data.Effect of negative emotions on frequency of coronary heart disease (The Normative Aging Study)
Failed retrieving data.Effects of dopamine transporter and receptor polymorphisms on smoking cessation in a bupropion clinical trial
Failed retrieving data.Effects of motivational interviewing on smoking cessation in adolescents with psychiatric disorders
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of acute administration of nicotine gum in relief of cue-provoked cigarette craving
Failed retrieving data.Elevated risk of tobacco dependence among offspring of mothers who smoked during pregnancy : A 30-year prospective study
Failed retrieving data.Erratum : Depressive symptoms and metabolic risk in adult male twins enrolled in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute twin study (Psychosomatic Medicine (2003) 65 (490-497))
Failed retrieving data.History of depression and smoking cessation outcome : A meta-analysis
Failed retrieving data.History of major depressive disorder among smokers in cessation treatment : Associations with dysfunctional attitudes and coping
Failed retrieving data.Intergenerational transmission of tobacco use and dependence : A transdisciplinary perspective
Failed retrieving data.Measures of abstinence in clinical trials : Issues and recommendations
Failed retrieving data.Ongoing research and future directions
Failed retrieving data.Planning evidence-based treatment of tobacco dependence
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