Dr. Jessica S. Kruger, The Alphabet Soup of Alternative Cannabinoids

April 2023

Jessica S. Kruger, PhD, MCHES, is a health educator whose research focuses on consumption and addictive behaviors, health behavior decision-making and pedagogy in public health. She collaborates with a wide variety of community-based organizations and advises students at the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic and the Seneca-Babcock Community Center, both in the Western New York area. Kruger is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the Society of Student-Run Clinics and focuses on increasing the interprofessional collaboration in free clinics around the U.S. She also serves as a member of the leadership team of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at UB.

Previous Webinars

Alisha Holloway, PhD

September 16, 2026, 11:00 AM MT

Enhancing Cannabis Quality through Marker-Assisted Selection for Improved Solventless Extraction Yield

Alisha Holloway is the Chief Scientific Officer at Phylos where she leads the R&D and Breeding groups that focus on discovery and implementation of genetic markers for high value traits, and the development of new cannabis varieties […]

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Ken Mackie, PhD

September 10, 2026 1:00 PM MT

Cannabinoids and weight loss:  A twisted tale

Dr. Ken Mackie is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (IUB) and a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience. He received his MD from Yale University, did his Anesthesiology Residency at the University […]

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Christian Büser, PhD

August 20, 11 AM MT 2026

Is smaller better? Nanofertilizers in Cannabis Cultivation

Christian Büser is a doctoral researcher in Agricultural Sciences at the Institute of Crop Science of the University of Hohenheim in Germany, where he also earned his Master’s degree in Agricultural Sciences with a focus on plant physiology. For the past […]

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Joshua Gowin, PhD

Aug 13, 2026 01:00 PM Mountain Time

Brain Function Outcomes of Recent and Lifetime Cannabis Use

Joshua Gowin, PhD, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. As a neuroscientist, his primary research program investigates the neural mechanisms of addiction, specifically focusing on how substance […]

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