# Mentoring in Addiction Treatment Research

> **NIH NIH K24** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2020 · $188,603

## Abstract

Project Summary
The primary goals of this K24 competing renewal application are to enable Eden Evins, M.D., M.P.H., to 1)
conduct career development activities to enhance and extend her patient-oriented addiction research (POAR);
and 2) provide intensive and high-quality mentorship to early-career investigators in POAR. A K24 renewal will
to give Dr. Evins protected time to devote to career development to increase the impact of her clinical addiction
research and to intensive mentoring of junior clinical researchers that would otherwise be spent on clinical and
administrative duties. Dr. Evins, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of
the Mass General Center for Addiction Medicine, has conducted POAR since 1999, emphasizing studies that
integrate different treatment approaches, approach difficult to treat populations and influence clinical practice.
Dr. Evins has accomplished the major goals of her initial K24 award. She has mentored over 35 junior
investigators, many with K awards, has authored 100 publications, including 42 publications with a mentee as
first author. She has conducted a series of studies that have changed clinical practice guidelines for smoking
cessation for those with serious mental illness.
 Dr. Evins’ research plan for this renewal application includes continued work as a PI in NIDA funded
treatment research, to serve as Co-Investigator on studies with mentees as PI. Further, she plans to submit
proposals to 1) expand the scope of smoking cessation treatment for those with serious mental illness to the
community, and 2) study effects of cannabis use on psychiatric symptoms, cognitive performance and
addiction in those with psychiatric disorders and in adolescents.
 Dr. Evins’ mentoring plan includes training her mentees in 1) clinical aspects of drug abuse; 2) designing
and implementing drug abuse research studies; 3) preparing scientific papers and presentations; 4) writing
successful grant applications; and 5) responsible conduct of research. She will accomplish this with a
combination of individual and group meetings; collaborative mentoring; role modeling; and integrating
mentoring with the MGH Division of Clinical Research and the Office of Career Development.
 Dr. Evins’ career development plan involves increasing her expertise in multimodal and optical
neuroimaging, assessment of effects of cannabis use in special populations; novel data analytic strategies; and
genetics. These activities will both enhance Dr. Evins’ research and her mentoring capacity.
 The public health importance of this application is related to the need to develop new and effective
treatments for drug dependent and dually diagnosed patients, and the need to train the next generation of
investigators to develop the skills they require to effectively conduct POAR with this patient population.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9983654
- **Project number:** 5K24DA030443-10
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** A EDEN EVINS
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $188,603
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-09-30 → 2023-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9983654

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9983654, Mentoring in Addiction Treatment Research (5K24DA030443-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9983654. Licensed CC0.

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