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

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 use alters frontostriatal […]

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Andrew Maxwell Phineas Jones, PhD

July 15th @ 11:00AM MT

Ten years of Cannabis micropropagation: What has changed and what are the best uses

 Dr. A.M.P. (Max) Jones is a professor and leading researcher in cannabis biotechnology at the University of Guelph, Canada. For the last decade his research has focused on plant tissue culture and micropropagation systems for cannabis and in 2018 his lab […]

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Kent Hutchison

July 9, 2026, 1 PM Moutain Time

Dr. Kent Hutchison is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Cannabis Research. He received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, completed postdoctoral training at Brown University, and has developed NIH-funded programs of research spanning alcohol, […]

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Tony P. George, MD, FRCPC

June 11, 2026 at 1 PM MDT

Understanding the links between cannabis use and mental illness: Implications for treatment

 

Dr. George is Professor of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto (UofT), and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He received his B.Sc. (1988) and M.D. (1992) degrees from […]

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Jacob MacWilliams, Ph.D.

May 20, 2026 11:00AM MDT

Unlocking the mystery of a key hemp pest, cannabis aphid

Dr. Jacob MacWilliams is a research scientist in Dr. Punya Nachappa’s lab in the Agricultural Biology Department at Colorado State University. Jacob received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Riverside focusing on cowpea aphid resistance in […]

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