NICK TARANTINO: Hi,
I'm Dr. Nick Tarantino,
and I'm a research psychologist
at Rhode Island Hospital.
I'm also an assistant
professor of psychiatry
and human behavior
at Brown University.
Coming to Brown as a postdoc, I
found myself with all this free
time when you first get here,
and it's sort of unique coming
from grad school
because, all of a sudden,
I can spend my day thinking
about my research--
reflecting on it--
where it's been in the past,
where it's now, where I wanted
to be in the next few years.
And so I came in with
a bunch of ideas.
Having a lot of
people around me that
were supportive of those
ideas was remarkable.
And no matter how sort of
far fetched or kind of crazy
they seemed at times,
there's somebody there
who would say, well,
what if we did this,
or what if we did that?
And that was really remarkable.
And then again, you can
look around the corner
down the hall, and I
could find somebody,
who has been working with
substance using populations,
that I want access
to-- that I want
to start to work with myself.
And they're right around the
corner willing to help me out.
I love living in Providence.
Being here is unique,
because in order
to get the exposure to some
of these internationally
renowned researchers,
many times,
you're living in
cities that have
much higher cost of living--
that are more difficult
to raise a family in.
We have a single family
home, and we have a yard,
and we have two dogs.
And it's been remarkable to
be able to have that and yet
still be able to work with
some of the most cutting edge
researchers in the
country and in the world.
