Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry
Chair, Human Investigations Committee (IRB), Human Research Protections Program; Professor, Chronic Disease EpidemiologyBiography
Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is also a Chair of the Human Investigations Committee (IRB) at Yale. Her research is focused on developing a bio-behavioral understanding of substance use behaviors in adult and adolescent substance users, with the goal of developing optimal prevention and cessation interventions. In the area of adolescent tobacco use, her research focuses on understanding the appeal, abuse potential and patterns of use of tobacco products, developing and testing the use of novel behavioral and pharmacological cessation and prevention interventions, and understanding behavioral and neural predictors of use and cessation behaviors. She has contributed to the Surgeon General’s reports on youth tobacco use behaviors, served as a member of the FDA’s Tobacco Product Scientific Advisory Committee and currently serves on the CDC's Interagency Commission on Smoking and Health. Dr. Krishnan-Sarin is the Co-PI on the Yale Tobacco Centers Of Regulatory Science, funded by the NIH and FDA, which is using a multidisciplinary approach to understand the role of flavors and other constituents of tobacco products in tobacco and nicotine addiction. She also leads the ENACT initiative funded by the American Heart Association which is focused on developing interventions for e-cigarette use behaviors among youth. In a separate and distinct line of research Dr. Krishnan-Sarin also develops and tests novel pharmacological interventions for alcohol use disorders in adults and examines neurochemical predictors of alcohol use and treatment response.
Appointments
Psychiatry
ProfessorPrimaryChronic Disease Epidemiology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Prevention and Control
- Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY)
- Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- Connecticut Mental Health Center
- Division of Addictions
- Division of Women's Behavioral Health Research
- Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
- Psychiatry
- Psychology Section
- Psychotherapy Development Center
- Substance Abuse Research
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Yale Univeristy (1996)
- Postdoctoral fellowship
- Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (1995)
- PhD
- Purdue University (1992)
Research
Overview
My research is focused on developing novel and effective treatments for substance use behaviors among youth and adults. Among youth, this work involves understanding the prevalence and bio-behavioral underpinnings of risk taking behaviors, using a developmental perspective, and behavioral and neuroimaging methods, and translating this information into optimal prevention and cessation intervention that use experimental, behavioral and pharmacological methods. While most of this work has focused on tobacco use behaviors, we have also extended these efforts to alcohol and marijuana use among youth. My research is also focused on developing empirical scientific evidence to support national and international tobacco regulatory efforts. Among adults, my work has focused using a translational approach to developing and evaluating medications to reduce alcohol drinking among heavy drinkers.
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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- July 10, 2024Source: The New York Times
How to Quit Vaping
- June 03, 2024Source: Scientific American
How Tobacco Companies Use Chemistry To Get Around Menthol Bans
- May 07, 2024Source: JAMA Internal Medicine
Time for a Focus on Cessation of E-Cigarettes
- April 12, 2024
Yale Cancer Center Faculty and Trainees Present at AACR Annual Meeting
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Psychiatry
Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519
United States