8:15am – 9:00am

Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am

Opening Remarks, Orientation, and Agenda Setting

FIU Administrators, Dean Joe West, Eric Wagner, & Peter Monti

10:00am – 11:00am

SCIENTIFIC SESSION #1:

Responsible Drinking: What is it and who is responsible?

Valerie Knopik*, Mark Sobell, Michie Hesselbrock, & Alan Lang

11:00am – 11:20am

COFFEE BREAK

11:20am – 12:20pm

SCIENTIFIC SESSION #2:

Why, where, when, & how drinking leads us to do things we wouldn’t ordinarily do.

Michael Sayette*, Tamara Wall, Tibor Palfai, & Christina Lee

12:25pm – 1:25pm

BUFFET LUNCH & TALK

New Investigator Innovations in Alcohol Research: Alcohol use & popularity in adolescence.

Ana Balsa

1:30pm – 2:30pm

SCIENTIFIC SESSION #3:

Adolescent Drinkers: Addressing underage drinking in a drinking society.

Holly Waldron*, James Jaccard, Christopher Martin, & Anthony Spirito

2:30pm – 2:50pm

COFFEE BREAK

2:50pm – 3:50pm

SCIENTIFIC SESSION #4:

Drinking Benefits & Harm: Separating Myth from Reality.

Mitchell Karno*, Sara Jo Nixon, Victor Hesselbrock, & Michael Stein

3:50pm – 4:30pm

Summary, Wrap-Up, and Closing Remarks

Eric Wagner

4:45pm – 6:30pm

Cocktail Reception

Immediately Following the Conference