Grohman

This Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Scientist Career Development Award from NIAAA supported a five-year plan to develop Dr. Kerry Grohman’s skills and expertise in addiction research through mentored training, secondary data analyses, and execution of an innovative investigation designed to unite three currently divergent areas in addiction research: treatment, neuropsychological functioning, and neuroimaging. The project included two stages: (1) Secondary analysis of an existing data set to examine posttreatment functioning, following neurocognitive rehabilitation, in a substance-abusing population. (2) Original data collection to provide the first extensive examination of the effect of neurocognitive rehabilitation on treatment and posttreatment functioning in alcohol dependent participants. Dr. Grohman’s mentors in this endeavor included Dr. Gerard Connors, RIA and Dr. Robert Zivadinov of UB’s Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Funded by a grant of $601,960 from NIAAA, 2004-2009.