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Jennifer Betts, PhD

Jennifer Betts, PhD

Jennifer Betts, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Advanced Addictions Fellow at the Madison VA and the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. She graduated in 2022 with her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University at Buffalo under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Tiffany. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Boston VA in the Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders track. Dr. Betts’ research focuses on understanding the relationship between motivational factors, such as craving and reward processes, the use of tobacco and electronic cigarettes, and clinical outcomes. On fellowship, one of her projects seeks to understand how anhedonia relates to nicotine withdrawal and smoking treatment. She is also investigating proximal motivational factors of dual use of tobacco and e-cigarettes, and associations with changes in dual use over time. Dr. Betts is interested in the co-occurrence between tobacco use and substance use disorders, and in particular, Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). She is currently applying for a VA Career Development Award to develop tobacco treatments for individuals with OUD who smoke. At the Madison VA, Dr. Betts works with patients through the Addictive Disorders Treatment Program and the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic.