EDUCATIONAL CORE - This component of our comprehensive Alcohol Research Center will engage inmultiple educational activities targeted at two key professional groups: health professionals andprofessionals-in-training, including clinicians, counselors and policy makers, and legal professionals. An upto-date understanding of the state of the science in alcohol research is critical to their efforts to preventand/or appropriately manage alcohol abuse and dependence within their spheres of practice or influence. Inaddition, the Center targets youth with outreach activities aimed at the primary prevention of alcohol abuse.Taken together these activities assure the engagement of Center faculty with outreach and educationactivities as well as the research proposed.To educate health professional and professionals-in-training we propose to continue our annual Carolina'sConference on Addiction and Recovery, targeting specific 'cutting-edge' topics currently under investigationby Center researchers and others that translate research to practice. We will also continue to disseminateeducational presentations from the conference over the Internet for CME credit to the broader scientific,academic, clinical, and treatment communities. We will partner with other organizations seeking ourexpertise for their CME activities. We will continue to promote and engage in teaching about addiction andalcohol abuse within the schools of the UNC Health Professions Campus. In addition, we will engage thejudicial community through symposia on alcohol and the law.To outreach youth with a prevention message, we will work with the UNC Morehead Science Center toprepare multimedia programs that are seen some 135,000 students who visit this Center on campus as partof their current science education. These programs will be designed to improve awareness, prevention, andtreatment of alcoholism, alcoholic medical pathologies and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. To this end,curricula and other teaching tools will be developed with staff of the Morehead Science Center. Further,videos and presentations developed will be made available through the Bowles Center website(www.med.unc.edu/alcohol). In addition, we will reach out to the community through a new Bowles CenterFellowship for health professional students to carry out projects within the community that address alcohol,health, and addiction topics.
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