Welcome to the University of Maryland Alcohol Summit 2008!

The problem of alcohol abuse by college age students across this nation is well documented. In spite of sustained and considerable effort by colleges and universities to reduce the amount of high risk drinking and its harmful consequences the problems continue at significant levels. This Summit is intended to engage the campus and extended community in open discussion about the many aspects of alcohol use and abuse in the college environment.

The following sessions are open to the campus community and general public. You are welcome to come for one session, two sessions or stay the entire time.

Agenda:

9:00-9:30am Breakfast Buffet Open

9:30am Welcome
Introduction - Linda Clement, Vice President for Student Affairs
Perspective on the topic - C. D. Mote, Jr., President
Greetings - Edward Montgomery, Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Robert Gold, Dean of the School of Public Health

10:00-11:00am Student Drinking Patterns: Risk Factors & Consequences
Presented by Eric Wish, Director, Kim Caldeira and Erin Artigiani, Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR), College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

    Underage Drinking UM CESAR Part 1.pdf
    Underage Drinking UM CESAR Part 2.pdf
    Underage Drinking UM CESAR Part 3.pdf

11:00-12:00pm Implications & Complexities of the Current Drinking Age
Presented by James Fell, Senior Program Director, Alcohol, Policy, and Safety Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE)

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12:00-2:00pm Lunch Buffet Open

12:30-1:30pm Student Perspectives (during lunch)
The following panel of student leaders will share their perspectives about alcohol use in the college environment:

Alex Beuchler - Resident Hall Association President
Matt Bowen - Intrafraternity Council Vice President for Risk Management
Jenny Collins – Student Athlete's Advisory Committee President
Nizar Dowla - Student Health Advisory President
Selam Maru - Panhellenic Assocation President
Christy McLellan - Gymkana, Resident Assistant
Jonathan Sachs - Student Body President

1:30-2:30pm Effects of Alcohol on College Student Sexual Behavior
Presented by Robin Sawyer, Professor, Department of Public and Community Health, School of Public Health

2:30-3:30pm Now What? Steps Toward Solutions
Panel of UM departments followed by audience involvement in brainstorming next steps. Invited guests include Dr. Sharon Terry, Maryland Parents Association, and Mr. John Brown, R.J. Bentley's Restaurant, College Park.

    NIAA and Healthy TERPS.ppt

3:30pm Adjourn

DR. ROBIN G. SAWYER

        Dr. Sawyer is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Chairperson in the Department of Public & Community Health at the University of Maryland, teaching courses in human sexuality, and adolescent health. He earned his bachelor's degrees from the University of London and George Mason University, Master's from the University of Virginia and doctorate from the University of Maryland. His areas of research interest include college student contraceptive compliance, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS education and date rape. He has received 13 national and international film awards for developing sexuality-related media, and received numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious USM Board of Regent’s Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001. Dr. Sawyer has published extensively and is a nationally known speaker having made over 400 presentations at schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. Dr. Sawyer’s teaching has gained national attention in the Washington Post and most recently he has appeared on the Today Show and the Tyra Banks Show.

JAMES C. FELL

        James Fell is a Senior Program Director with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) in Calverton, MD. He is currently involved in projects evaluating the effectiveness of traffic safety enforcement programs and strategies to reduce impaired driving, particularly highly visible, highly publicized and frequent sobriety checkpoints and the role of State and Local Impaired Driving Task Forces. He has completed a study of the drinking characteristics of drivers arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI), a project on increasing safety belt usage by teens, and the development of various resource documents on sanctions for drivers convicted of DWI. Mr. Fell recently finished research on grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that assessed the status and enforcement of the various components of the Minimum Legal Drinking Age 21 (MLDA 21) laws in the States and determined the relationship of those laws to teenage traffic deaths. He is currently managing projects to evaluate the effectiveness of DWI Courts in Georgia, responsible beverage service (RBS) measures to reduce impaired driving by 21-34 year olds, night and passenger restrictions in graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws on crashes by teen drivers, and intensive supervision programs (ISP) on DWI recidivism. Mr. Fell formerly worked at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from 1969 to 1999 and has 41 years of traffic safety and alcohol research experience. At NHTSA, he was Chief of Research and Evaluation for Traffic Safety Programs and Manager of the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). He has authored over 100 scientific publications in the areas of highway safety, alcohol impairment and human factors research. He is a Fellow in the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) and a member of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA). Mr. Fell served on the National Board of Directors for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) from 1999-2006. He has both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Human Factors Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He serves as Chair of the Oversight Committee on Drinking and Driving for Fairfax County, Virginia (since 2000). He is married to Kimberly Ann Fell, they have three sons, and reside in Annandale, Virginia, USA.

Dr. ERIC WISH

        Dr. Eric Wish is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1990, he has served as Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR). Dr. Wish received his Ph.D. in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, in 1977. He subsequently completed a NIDA post-doctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine. Between 1986 and 1990, Dr. Wish served as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he supervised the design and launching of the national Drug Use Forecasting (DUF, later ADAM) program. He has published and spoken widely on such topics as the measurement of offender drug use, the evaluation of drug treatment programs, and statewide trends in alcohol and drug use.

ELEANOR ERIN ARTIGIANI

        Erin Artigiani is CESAR’s Deputy Director for Policy and Governmental Affairs. Ms. Artigiani has an M.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from Wellesley College. She has managed a variety of program evaluations and epidemiology workgroups for Maryland and Washington, DC, and has prepared a number of policy reports for state agencies on topics related to drugs and crime. She is Co-PI of the new Community Services Locator project which was designed for the Maryland Governor’s Office. In addition, she worked with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program on the development of a performance management program to assess the impact of law enforcement strategies on local drug markets. She has also developed an award winning drug education video and other drug education materials and has conducted numerous training and technical assistance programs on prevention, data analysis, and other substance abuse topics.

KIMBERLY MANSFIELD CALDEIRA

        Ms. Caldeira is a faculty research associate with the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland College Park, where she has served as project director for the College Life Study since 2004. Using data from this federally-funded longitudinal study, she has authored and co-authored several manuscripts on a variety of topics related to college students’ health, including heavy drinking, substance abuse and dependence, mental health, and nonmedical use of prescription drugs. Ms. Caldeira earned a Master of Science in occupational therapy at Towson University, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the College of William and Mary. She has been involved in survey research on health risk behaviors for eight years, with an emphasis on substance abuse and risky sex in college students and adults living with HIV. Ms. Caldeira’s clinical background as an occupational therapist informs her professional interests in community mental health and health promotion.