Recap of the 67th Annual Scientific Meeting
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The 67th annual scientific meeting of the CPDD was held at the Wyndham Palace Hotel in Orlando, FL, June 18-23, 2005. There were 1326 registrants, including 344 members, 676 non-members, 226 pre/post-docs and in-training members, as well as social registrants, press, and exhibitors. Represented were 48 countries or territories from around the globe. For the first time a special rate was offered to attendees from developing countries, and we had 68 registrants in that category. After the U.S., the most heavily represented countries were the U.K. and Austria (19 each), France (14), Brazil (13), Canada, Japan and Spain (12 each), Germany (9) and Israel (8). Prior to our meeting, there were several satellite sessions: The International Study Group for Investigating Drugs as Reinforcers (ISGIDAR); The 5th Annual Meeting of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT); The 10th Annual NIDA International Forum; Translating Basic Research from Neural, Behavioral, and Social Sciences to Prevention: Challenges and Opportunities; and Food, Drugs, Obesity and Addiction: Common Neurobiologic Processes?
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CPDD 2005 officially opened with a lavish reception in the Great Hall of the Wyndham Palace on Saturday evening, June 18th. (photos #1-5)
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Click on any of these pictures for an enlarged view.
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Plenary Session
The following morning the Plenary began with a welcome by President Warren Bickel (photo#6), followed by an address by Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (photo#7). Next came the presentation of awards. Past-President Chris-Ellyn Johanson presented a Distinguished Service Award to Ian Stolerman, for his outstanding efforts as the international editor of the CPDD-sponsored journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence (photo#8). This year’s Media Award went to Brian Vastag for his articles that have educated the public on the social, political and economic consequences of drug abuse and drug abuse policy (photo#9). There were 2 Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Awardees in 2005: Thomas Eissenberg (#10) and James Rowlett (#11). Linda Dykstra was this year’s deserving recipient of the Mentorship Award (#12), and Conan Kornetsky was presented with the prestigious Nathan B. Eddy Award by George Koob (#13)">">. Dr. Kornetsky then delivered the Eddy Award Lecture, “A Walk through the History of Drug Abuse: Research, Trends and Fads” (#14). Before the lunch break, a special session of the Underrepresented Populations Committee was held to inaugurate the CPDD Primm-Singleton Minority Travel Awards.
Sunday afternoon Trevor Robbins of the University of Cambridge gave a President’s Lecture, entitled “Cognitive Sequelae of Drug Abuse: Studies in Humans and Experimental Animals.” Following the lecture, the first of the 18 symposia and 27 oral sessions that made up the 5-day program took place. Sunday evening, a mixer for pre- and post-docs was held at the Wyndham, which drew about 125 people. There were also several workshops and a poster session for the NIDA International Forum.
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8: Chris-Ellyn Johanson,
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Poster Sessions
Monday morning began with breakfast and a poster session. At the 4 poster sessions a total of 628 posters were presented (#15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23). For those skeptics who suspect favoritism in the assignment of oral presentations, it should be noted that even the chair of the Program Committee had a poster (#24). There were also 9 exhibitors (photo#25, 26, 27, 28).
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The second President’s Lecture was delivered by Harel Weinstein of Weill Medical College, Cornell University. His topic was “Computational Modeling Integrates Structure-Based Mechanisms of GPCRs into Cell Pathway Signaling by Drugs of Abuse” (#29). During a brown-bag lunch session, Ed Long and Bill Dewey updated attendees on the CPDD activity on Capitol Hill and Friends of NIDA.
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Marian W. Fischman Memorial Award
In the afternoon, the 4th Marian W. Fischman Memorial Award was presented to Mary Jeanne Kreek by Warren Bickel (#30, 31). Dr. Kreek then gave the Award Lecture. Afterwards, she posed with this year’s Eddy winner, Conan Kornetsky, for this award-winning photo (#32).
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30: Warren Bickel, Mary Jeanne Kreek
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31: Warren Bickel, Mary Jeanne Kreek
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32: Conan Kornetsky, Mary Jeanne Kreek
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Trainees Mixer
That evening, a mixer for NIDA Training Grantees was held. Suman Rao King of NIDA hosted the event, which was co-sponsored by UCLA, University Kentucky, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University. and the Bloomsberg School of Public Health, University Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and University Minnesota (#33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38).
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Eddy Reception
Also on Monday evening was the President’s Reception for past and present Eddy Awardees (#39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44) and 4 more workshops.
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Tuesday’s program included the fast-paced Late-Breaking Research News session chaired by the new head of the Program Committee, Sharon Walsh. With the exception of about 50 young investigators who attended the annual NIDA grant-writing workshop, the afternoon was free for most attendees, many of whom took off for the theme parks or just relaxed by the pool.
On Wednesday, the Animals in Research Committee sponsored a brown-bag lunch with guest speaker, Frankie Trull, President of the Foundation for Biomedical Research (#45). At the Business Meeting in the afternoon, plaques were presented to board members who completed their term of service (Nicholas Goeders, Martin Iguchi, Samuel Deadwyler) and to Warren Bickel for his service as President during the past year (#46, 47, 48). Elections for representatives to the Nominating Committee from the Fellows and Regular/Associate Members were held (#49), with the aid of a Floridian counting the ballots?! (#50). The new members are Alice Young, Lisa Gold, James Zacny, Drake Morgan.
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46: Martin Iguchi, Warren Bickel
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Thursday brought the last of the breakfast poster sessions, more symposia and oral communications, and the Brunch with Champions. Organized this year by Jennifer Tidey (#58), this popular event presents an opportunity for students and junior investigators to chat with more senior scientists and administrators over lunch (#59, 60, 61, 62).
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The 2005 champs were Ivy Carroll (63), Lisa Gold (64), Maxine Stitzer (65), Bob Balster (66), Tom Kosten (#67) and Cindy Miner (68).
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At the close of the scientific program, badges were collected from those seated in sessions, and the annual CPDD sweepstakes drawing was held. Prizes included free dues for one year, free meeting registration for next year, airline tickets, and hotel stays, as well as a variety of Mickey Mouse prizes. Congratulations to all the winners (#69- 85) and thanks to all our helpers (#86)! Thanks, too, to the staff at the registration desk (#87).
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| Next year we’re back at the fabulous Scottsdale Princess, June 17-22, 2006. Hope to see you there! (#88). |
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