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This month, VCBH wraps up its FY22 lecture series with guest Tera Fazzino, PhD, assistant professor of psychology and associate director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research at the University of Kansas. Dr. Fazzino will present “Crossing Fields to Make Scientific Connections: Reinforcement Processes in Addiction, Binge Eating, and Obesity” on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 12 PM ET.

In this presentation, Dr. Fazzino will present her work spanning the fields of addiction and obesity, which has focused on identifying and intervening upon reinforcement processes that drive health risk behaviors. She will also discuss her research in providing the first operational definition of hyper-palatable foods and examining hyper-palatable foods as a substance.

Dr. Fazzino’s research focuses on the intersection of addiction, obesity, and eating disorders. She is interested in common reinforcement processes that may contribute to behaviors associated with addiction, obesity, and eating disorders, and in the ways that highly palatable foods may influence reinforcement processes and behavior. She also utilizes new mobile technology-based methods to measure health risk behaviors in real-time in participants’ own environments. Dr. Fazzino received her PhD from the University of Vermont in experimental psychology in 2014.

Guest Presenter: Tera Fazzino, PhD Assistant Professor, Psychology Associate Director, Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research The University of Kansas “Crossing Fields to Make Scientific Connections: Reinforcement Processes in Addiction, Binge Eating, and Obesity” When: May 18, 2022 Duration: 12 PM – 1 PM ET Where: Zoom Cost: Free CMEs/CEs Available: 1.0 credit (if attending live)

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