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
HIV, STD, and hepatitis risk behaviors of young men before and after incarceration
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Failed retrieving data.Maternal smoking during pregnancy and neonatal behavior : A large-scale community study
Failed retrieving data.Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Newborn Neurobehavior : Effects at 10 to 27 Days
Failed retrieving data.Mediators of the relationship between nicotine replacement therapy and smoking abstinence among people living with HIV/AIDS
Failed retrieving data.Motivation and patch treatment for HIV+ smokers : A randomized controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Parental smoking and adolescent smoking initiation : An intergenerational perspective on tobacco control
Failed retrieving data.Parenting practices, parent smoking, and friend smoking influences on stages of adolescent smoking
Failed retrieving data.Personality, psychiatric disorders, and smoking in middle-aged adults
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence and characteristics of multiple psychiatric disorders in cardiac rehabilitation patients
Failed retrieving data.Regular exercise as a protective factor in relapse following smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Smoking abstinence and reinstatement effects in adolescent cigarette smokers
Failed retrieving data.Stress response and the adolescent transition : Performance versus peer rejection stressors
Failed retrieving data.Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers : research achievements and future implications.
Failed retrieving data.Anxiety Characteristics Independently and Prospectively Predict Myocardial Infarction in Men. The Unique Contribution of Anxiety Among Psychologic Factors
Failed retrieving data.Can the blind see? Participant guess about treatment arm assignment may influence outcome in a clinical trial of bupropion for smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Chronic cigarette smoking and the microstructural integrity of white matter in healthy adults : A diffusion tensor imaging study
Failed retrieving data.Cigarette smoking and the lifetime alcohol involvement continuum
Failed retrieving data.Depressive Symptoms and Cigarette Smoking in Twins From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Failed retrieving data.Educational attainment and the heritability of self-reported hypertension among male vietnam-era twins
Failed retrieving data.Educational attainment, smoking initiation and lifetime nicotine dependence among male Vietnam-era twins
Failed retrieving data.Effects of progression to cigarette smoking on depressed mood in adolescents : Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Failed retrieving data.HIV-positive smokers considering quitting : Differences by race/ethnicity
Failed retrieving data.Lifetime characteristics of participants and non-participants in a smoking cessation trial : Implications for external validity and public health impact
Failed retrieving data.Molecular genetics of successful smoking cessation : Convergent genome-wide association study results
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