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    Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD

    Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry
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    Chair, Human Investigations Committee (IRB), Human Research Protections Program

    Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology

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    Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry

    Chair, Human Investigations Committee (IRB), Human Research Protections Program; Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology

    Biography

    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.

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    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.

    Medical Research Interests

    Adolescent Psychiatry; Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol-Related Disorders; Behavioral Medicine; Marijuana Abuse; Marijuana Use; Nicotine; Psychiatry and Psychology; Psychotherapy; Smoking Cessation; Substance-Related Disorders; Tobacco; Tobacco Use Disorder

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin's published research.

    Publications

    2024

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Addiction

      Professional OrganizationsEditor
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      Surgeon General’s Report “Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People”.

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      Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Report “Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products

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      Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

      Professional OrganizationsPresident
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      DHHS Interagency committee on Smoking and Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

      Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsAd-hoc Member
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    Psychiatry

    Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park Street

    New Haven, CT 06519

    United States

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