Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland
Andrew S. Huhn, Ph.D., MBA is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research is focused on understanding the human experience of opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD). The majority of his work has been in human laboratory studies and clinical trials, and has focused on identifying risk factors for illicit drug relapse and medication strategies to improve OUD treatment outcomes. These studies cover the continuum of care, including supervised opioid withdrawal and sustained recovery using medications for OUD. Topics of interest include sleep disturbance, drug craving, and diurnal measures of stress and mood. In addition, Dr. Huhn has conducted studies on the tradeoffs between the abuse liability and analgesic efficacy of opioid medications, including research on persons with chronic and/or acute pain. His lab employs diverse methodological approaches to better understand opioid use and OUD, including neuroimaging, ecological momentary assessments, wearable technologies, human laboratory studies, and survey research. Taken together, this research is aimed at improving treatment outcomes directly and evaluating and strategizing macro-level changes to improve healthcare for substance use and related disorders.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM