Dr. Krysten Bold

Biography

Krysten Bold is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry specializing in clinical psychology and substance use treatment research. She earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey and completed a predoctoral clinical internship at NIDA along with a postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale University. Her research primarily focuses on understanding cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth and young adults, informing tobacco prevention, intervention strategies, and policy. She is recognized for her widely cited research on youth tobacco use, which contributed to the Surgeon General's report on e-cigarette use in these populations. Dr. Bold serves on the Treatment Network Advisory Committee for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is actively involved in investigating various factors associated with tobacco initiation, switching, and cessation. She leverages advances in mobile technology and wearable biosensors for real-time assessments to enhance treatment delivery and is focusing on expanding access to smoking cessation services in specialized medical community settings.

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