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
Cardiovascular disease, Part II: Coronary artery disease and sudden death and hypertension
Failed retrieving data.Exercise enhances the maintenance of smoking cessation in women
Failed retrieving data.Interrelationship of smoking and alcohol dependence, use and urges to use
Failed retrieving data.Obesity Level and Attrition : Support for Patient‐Treatment Matching in Obesity Treatment
Failed retrieving data.Plasma lipids and their relationships with psychosocial factors in older adults
Failed retrieving data.Self-guided solutions for problem drinking
Failed retrieving data.Changes in eating inventory scores following obesity treatment
Failed retrieving data.Cue Reactivity as a Predictor of Drinking Among Male Alcoholics
Failed retrieving data.Dissemination of physician-based smoking cessation interventions
Failed retrieving data.Matching high-dependence and low-dependence smokers to self-help treatment with or without nicotine replacement
Failed retrieving data.Social support and the progression and treatment of cardiovascular disease
Failed retrieving data.The effects of cue exposure on reaction time in male alcoholics
Failed retrieving data.Alcohol cue reactivity : Effects of detoxification and extended exposure
Failed retrieving data.Assessment of quality of life as observed from the baseline data of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) trial quality-of-life substudy
Failed retrieving data.Cue Exposure With Coping Skills Treatment for Male Alcoholics : A Preliminary Investigation
Failed retrieving data.Endocrine correlates of sadness and elation
Failed retrieving data.Nicotine dependence: Assessment and management
Failed retrieving data.Stress and lipoprotein metabolism : Modulators and mechanisms
Failed retrieving data.The role of primary care physicians in smoking cessation.
Failed retrieving data.Treatment issues: Towards a stepped care model
Failed retrieving data.A cocaine high-risk situations questionnaire : Development and psychometric properties
Failed retrieving data.Cue elicited urge to drink and salivation in alcoholics : Relationship to individual differences
Failed retrieving data.Increased Saliva Cotinine Concentrations in Smokers During Rapid Weight Loss
Failed retrieving data.Lipids in psychological research : The last decade
Failed retrieving data.National working conference on smoking and body weight. Task Force 1 : Mechanisms relevant to the relations between cigarette smoking and body weight.
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