{"id":4283,"date":"2018-03-16T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2018-03-16T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:58:05","slug":"international-society-of-addiction-medicine-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/international-society-of-addiction-medicine-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"International Society of Addiction Medicine Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Beatrice Mwagomba, MD, presented her PhD research work at a 19<sup>th<\/sup> Annual International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 25<sup>th<\/sup> to 30<sup>th<\/sup> October 2017.\u00a0 Beatrice is a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year PhD student under the joint Program for Global Health Implementation between St Andrews and College of Medicine, Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>ISAM 2017 was a wonderful cultural and scientific exchange through the theme of &#8220;New frontiers&#8221; whereby recent scientific discoveries in the field of addiction were highlighted.\u00a0 The scientific presentations addressed global and local Middle East issues in the area of addiction including behavioural addictions.<\/p>\n<p>Under primary supervision of Prof. Alexander Baldacchino, Beatrice presented part of findings from her PhD project on a poster titled <strong>\u201cAdaptation and Validation of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) in Malawi\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 This presentation describes how the locally brewed alcoholic drinks were incorporated to make the AUDIT a user friendly screening tool to primary health workers in Malawi, a resource constrained country located in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Beatrice Mwagomba, presented her PhD research work at the 19th Annual International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) conference in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[36,60,61,111,120,531,863],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-addiction-medicine","tag-alcohol","tag-alcohol-use-disorder-identification-test","tag-audit","tag-beatrice-mwagomba","tag-global-health","tag-phd"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 08:20:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}