Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Emily A. Hennessy, M.Phil., Ph.D. is a Member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of Biostatistics at the Recovery Research Institute (RRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hennessy’s research examines factors associated with health behavior change among adolescents. Her primary area of research, adolescent substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery, is funded by a career development award (K01) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She has studied various settings that support adolescent recovery, including recovery high schools and alternative peer groups since 2013 and has a number of publications from this work: she was also the first to adapt the recovery capital model, developed for adults, to be more specifically tailored to adolescent populations (RCAM).
Sunday, August 7, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM