2026 Collegiate Recovery Conference at SJU

Dr. Kevin Hill is Director of Addiction Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  He earned a Master’s in Health Science at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the Yale  School of Medicine. He most commonly treats patients who have problems with alcohol, cannabis, or opioids and has been named one of Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors for the past eight years. He teaches medical students and physicians how to treat patients with addictions.  He treats professional athletes from the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association, and the Boston Red Sox, as well as airline pilots.  He is the Co-Chair of the NFL/NFL Players’ Association Pain Management Committee. The author of Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed (Hazelden 2015) and co-author of Medical Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Guide (Wolters-Kluwer 2020), Dr. Hill’s research interests include the development of medications to treat cannabis use disorder as well as cannabis policy, and he has published widely on these topics in such journals as JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Lancet Psychiatry.  He serves on the editorial boards of Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the American Journal on Addictions and Frontiers in Public Health. 

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Dr. Nicole Loyd serves as the Executive Vice President for University Life, Chief Operating Officer, and Dean of Students at Moravian University. She found her home at Moravian in 2008 and currently oversees more than 250 staff dedicated to the co-curricular life of the university. Nicole earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Virginia and Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Bucknell University. A first-generation college student, she grounds all of her work in understanding, embracing, and helping to shape campus cultures. In addition to her institutional leadership, she consults and speaks nationally on emotional intelligence and generational dynamics. 

Session Description: Young people are sending us signals, and it's worth slowing down long enough to actually hear them. More Gen Z students are choosing sobriety than any generation before them — and yet those who are using substances are often struggling in ways that are more intense and more complex. Meanwhile, the first wave of Gen Alpha students is already on the horizon, arriving on college campuses with unprecedented digital exposure, shifting mental health patterns, and a new set of expectations for how adults show up for them. 

In this session, Dr. Nicole Loyd will map the full generational landscape, from Traditionalists to Gen Alpha, giving the audience the shared framework they need to understand who is sitting in their offices, living in their residence halls, and walking into their recovery programs. From there, the session shifts into a fireside chat that brings that framework to life through honest, practitioner-focused conversation. This is not a session about statistics. It's a session about people, and what it takes to genuinely meet them where they are.