Events

Our #VCBHLectureSeries is back! As we announced in our August newsletter, we’re kicking off the FY22 season with guest speaker, Warren Bickel, PhD, Director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center and Center for Health Behaviors Research at Virginia Tech, on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 12 PM ET. Dr. Bickel will present “The Experimental Tobacco Marketplace: Contemporary Status.”

The experimental tobacco marketplace (ETM) approximates real-world situations by estimating the effects of several, concurrently available products and policies on budgeted purchasing. In this 60-minute session, Dr. Bickel will report on the contemporary ETM paradigm and its utility in tobacco regulatory science. Attendees will come away being able to discuss the versatility of the ETM as an experimental manipulation to model the tobacco marketplace, and explore factors and policies that may change consumers’ behaviors using this methodology.

Warren Bickel received his Ph.D. in developmental and child psychology from the University of Kansas and completed post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has led research programs at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the University of Vermont, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is currently the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Virginia Tech School of Medicine. Dr. Bickel has co-edited five books and published more than 350 papers and chapters.