2014 Boston Retreat

The 2014 Boston Retreat (December 9-12, 2014) was a 3-day retreat for training and project development for RAMS Scholars and Mentors that included didactic sessions, one-on-one mentoring with National Advisory Committee (NAC) mentors to discuss their project, and tutorials from a research methodologist to develop an analytic plan. It began the mentoring relationship between the RAMS scholars and NAC mentor, facilitated the development of the scholar’s research project, provided training on research methodology and engaged institutional mentors in the development of the RAMS scholar’s research project.

2014 Boston Retreat Plenary Leads:

• Carly Bridden, MA, MPH,  Clinical Research Director in the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at Boston Medical Center
• Christine Chaisson, MPH, Director of the Data Coordinating Center at the Boston University School of Public Health
• James F. Callahan, DPA, Current Executive Vice President of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
• Peter D. Friedmann, MD, MPH, FASAM, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health of Brown University
• Patrick O’Connor, MD, MPH, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Yale University.
• Mary-Tara Roth, RN, MSN, MPH, Director of the Clinical Research Resources Office (CRRO)
• Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center
• Michael Stein, MD, Professor of Medicine, Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University
• Judith Tsui, MD, MPH,  acting Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Washington and is on staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Harborview Hospital in Seattle, WA
• Alexander Walley, MD, MSc,  Assistant Professor of Medicine and Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program at Boston University School of Medicine