Debra Dobbs, PhD, was awarded a grant from the Florida Department of Health's Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research Program, in the amount of approximately $250K for a two-year project titled, Palliative Care Education in Assisted Living for Care Providers of Residents with Dementia. The project, which begins in February, 2019, is a clinical trial of 12 Tampa Bay area assisted living communities in collaboration with Life Path Hospice in Tampa, an entity of Chapters Health and Suncoast Hospice in Clearwater, an entity of Empath Health. Hospice community nurse educators will implement the educational program for nurses in six of the assisted living communities to test the efficacy of the program on quality of end-of-life care for residents with dementia.

Roger Peters, PhD, moderated four panels, and provided a presentation on "Ensuring Fidelity to Evidence-Based Treatment of Substance Use Disorders" at the International Conference on Drug Demand Reduction, held in Nairobi, Kenya on December 10-14, 2018. The conference was sponsored by Kenya's National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) and the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP), and was attended by over 2,500 participants. Dr. Peters and Cary Hopkins Eyles, also from the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, participated in a 3-day conference track of the International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR), which included representatives from over 20 African nations

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