Dr. Yan Wang

12 March, 1:00 PM MST

Real-time and long-term effects of medical marijuana on older adults with chronic pain: Early findings from a prospective cohort study.

 

Yan Wang is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Florida (UF). Her research interests focus on leveraging advanced technologies and methods (e.g., wearable sensors, ecological momentary assessment/EMA) to improve the understanding of etiology and outcomes of substance use (e.g., alcohol, medical marijuana). Dr. Wang is also Associate Director of the Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC, U24 AA022002, PI: Cook) Center at UF, which focuses on improving health among persons living with HIV in Florida. She also serves as the Assistant Director of the Clinical Core within the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research, which is a statewide consortium established in 2019 by the Florida Statute to provide infrastructural support for research on medical marijuana and its clinical outcomes. Dr. Wang is currently the PI or Co-I on three NIH projects focusing on alcohol use among persons with HIV that involve the use of wrist-worn alcohol biosensor (R01AA030481, MPIs: Cook & Wang; P01AA029547, MPIs: Naar & MacDonald; P01AA029543, MPIs: Cook & Cohen), and she is Co-I on several NIH projects (R01 AA030481, PI: Weafer & Leeman; R21AA029489, PI: Jaffe; R34AA031379, PI: Scaglione) to contribute her expertise on alcohol biosensors or EMA.

Previous Webinars

Rachel Tomko, PhD.

10 July, 2025, 1 PM MST 

Understanding Young Adults’ Cannabis Use and Craving in Naturalistic Settings: Insights from Ecological Momentary Assessment 

Dr. Rachel Tomko is an Associate Professor in the Addiction Sciences Division at MUSC’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on how individual and sex-related factors influence cannabis […]

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Cynthia Ocamb, PhD.

July 16, 2025, 11 AM MST

Cynthia Ocamb is a professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University, based in Corvallis, OR. Ocamb provides statewide leadership in the diagnosis and management of diseases of field and vegetable crops as an Extension specialist in plant pathology. She is a co-editor of the […]

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Carolina Corredor, PhD.

June 18, 2025, 11:00AM MST

Carolina Corredor, Ph.D. in Agroecology and Agricultural Microbiologist, specializes in cannabis cultivation, plant physiology, plant–microbe interactions, and seed viability. With over six years of teaching experience in biology and microbiology, her research focuses on optimizing sustainable cannabis production for cannabinoids, fiber, and grain. As a Visiting Research Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher, […]

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Devan Kansagara, MD., PhD.

Systematically Testing the Evidence on Marijuana (STEM): Bridging the science of cannabis health effects and clinical practice

June 12, 2025, 1:00 PM MST

Devan Kansagara MD, MCR is a Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. He practices and teaches primary care and hospital- based internal medicine in the VA Portland Health Care System. His […]

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Dan Covey, PHD

Effects of isolated cannabinoids and endocannabinoids on emotional behavior in rodents

May 8, 2025 1:00 PM MST

Dan is currently an Assistant Professor at Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute (LBRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started this position in June 2020 after completing his PhD at Illinois State University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland […]

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Nolan Kane, PhD.

Genetics, chemistry and the evolution of sex chromosomes in Cannabis

May 21, 2025 11:00 AM MST

Dr. Nolan Kane is an associate professor in the ebio department at the university of Colorado, boulder. he uses genomic approaches to study adaptation to new environments, domestication of wild plants into valuable crops, and the formation of new species. his work has […]

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