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Core Faculty
Leadership
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Christopher Kahler
Director, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Smoking cessation; brief alcohol interventions; co-use of alcohol and tobacco; personality, affect, and addictions; alcohol and HIV/AIDS; positive psychology and positive psychotherapy
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Suzanne Colby
Deputy Director, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Laboratory and clinical studies, treatment development, and instrumentation research related to adolescent and young adult substance use disorders. Innovative interventions targeting heavy drinking, HIV risk behavior, and smoking in various populations including adolescents, young adults, adults receiving emergency medical care, and adults with schizophrenia
Core Faculty
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Jasjit Ahluwalia
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Medicine
Minority health and health disparities; nicotine addiction and smoking cessation (pharmacotherapy and behavioral interventions) in African Americans; mentoring and career development
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Elizabeth Aston
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Behavioral and pharmacological effects of marijuana; co-use of marijuana and alcohol; behavioral economics of substance use; use of marijuana for medical purposes
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Nancy Barnett
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brief alcohol interventions; naturalistic change in problematic alcohol use; alcohol biosensor technology research; computer-based assessment and intervention; adolescent and young adult populations
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Christy Capone
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Treatment of co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military Veterans
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Kate Carey
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Screening and brief interventions for at-risk drinkers; understanding mediators and moderators of intervention effects; social influences (e.g., perceived norms) on drinking behavior; assessing and enhancing motivation to change; alcohol’s effects on HIV risk behaviors
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Rachel Cassidy
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Tobacco regulatory research; Adolescent smoking; e-cigarette use behaviors; smoking cessation; behavioral economics
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Mark A. Celio
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Uses qualitative and experimental methodology to better understand alcohol influences on sexual decision making
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Patricia Cioe
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
HIV; smoking cessation; electronic cigarette use behaviors, health effects of cigarette smoking, health promotion; cardiovascular risk reduction change
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Erica Eaton
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dr. Eaton is a clinical psychologist in the Trauma Recovery Service at the Providence VA Medical Center (PVAMC). Her primary research interests are in complementary and integrative treatment approaches for co-occurring substance use disorders (SUD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Kimberly Goodyear Chavanne
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Improving interventions and treatments for individuals with alcohol and other substance use disorders.
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Rachel Gunn
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
The impact of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use on alcohol consumption and consequences in the natural environment using ambulatory assessment and alcohol biosensors.
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Arryn Guy
Investigator, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dr. Guy's research focuses on the translation of evidence-based behavioral health interventions from testing to implementation using community-engaged research methods, with the ultimate goal of increasing rates of HIV viral suppression and reducing HIV-related comorbidities among racial/ethnic and sexual/gender minorities.
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Carolina Haass-Koffler
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Transitional research (neuroscience-human laboratory studies) examining biobehavioral mechanisms of addiction, focus on: stress (HPA/extrahypothalamic), neuroendocrine pathways (brain-gut axis, ghrelin, leptin, insulin) and ethanol pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics modeling
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Michelle Haikalis
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Studying the intersection of alcohol use and sexual violence through the use of laboratory, naturalistic, self-report and qualitative methodologies.
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Kristina Jackson
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research)
Developmental course, alcohol, initiation, progression, trajectories, adolescents, alcohol-tobacco comorbidity; longitudinal methodology and analysis, fine-grained data collection
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Tim Janssen
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Determinants of substance use initiation and substance use trajectories in adolescence using both longitudinal and event-level determinants. Interest in variety of quantitative statistical implementations (e.g. factor analysis, mixture, multilevel) using SEM framework.
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Aditya Khanna
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research primarily uses network analysis, agent-based modeling and predictive analytics to inform initiatives to achieve health equity. Focus on incorporating psychosocial (e.g., substance use) and structural (e.g., incarceration) barriers to care.
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Gabriela López
Investigator, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dr. López's work focuses on the intersection of alcohol use and sexual victimization among sexual and racial/ethnic minority women.
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Molly Magill
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Areas of mentorship capacity include mechanisms of behavior change research; statistical analyses in the context of clinical trials; meta-analysis of addictions treatments effects; and therapist training, fidelity monitoring, and implementation science
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Rosemarie Ann Martin
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Addictions treatment, behavioral or psychosocial interventions, longitudinal data-analysis; mechanisms of behavior change; mediators/moderators of treatment outcomes; process research
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Matthew Meisel
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Social network analysis; emerging adults; respondent-driven sampling and other sample methods; alcohol misuse and alcohol-related consequences; nonmedical use of prescription drugs; co-use of alcohol and other drugs; health disparities
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Jennifer Merrill
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alcohol misuse and consequences among young adults; subjective evaluations of alcohol-related consequences; alcohol-induced blackouts; use of ecological momentary assessment to understand young adult drinking; brief alcohol interventions; longitudinal data analysis; qualitative methods
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Jane Metrik
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research), Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Pharmacological and psychological bases of acute effects of marijuana on behavior and decision-making process; genetic factors and other individual differences characterizing users most vulnerable to development of cannabis use disorders; alcohol, marijuana interactions, and cross-reactivity
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Lauren Micalizzi
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Prenatal substance exposure; development of externalizing behavior problems; familial influences on adolescent substance use; self-regulation; behavioral genetic methods
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Robert Miranda
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Research program on the treatment of adolescents with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, with a special focus on testing new pharmacological interventions and using novel strategies to monitor how adolescents behave in their natural environment
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Mollie Monnig
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research interests include 1) effects of alcohol and other drugs on the brain’s white matter and metabolism, using magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion weighted MRI; 2) alcohol use in the context of HIV infection; 3) biomarkers linking behavior to immune response
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Peter Monti
Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alcohol treatment; brief interventions; mechanisms of change; cue reactivity; pharmacotherapy; adolescent use and abuse; alcohol and HIV/AIDs
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Cara Murphy
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research interests: addictions treatment; nicotine addiction; smoking cessation, e-cigarette use behaviors; multiple health behavior change; behavioral economics; obesity; weight gain prevention
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Melissa Pielech
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Increasing access to evidence-based approaches to assessing and treating pain and substance use in pediatric integrated care settings; pediatric pain; adolescent and young adult substance use; family-based treatment; mixed-methods.
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Samantha Portis
Investigator, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dr. Portis’s research explores the impact of chronic alcohol misuse on neurogenesis and cognitive function in an aging population and the potential rescue effects of a nutraceutical.
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Damaris Rohsenow
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pharmacotherapy and behavioral treatment for smoking among substance abusers; effects of pharmacotherapies for alcohol or smoking on mechanisms of effect; cue reactivity; measures development for alcohol, smoking, cocaine use/abuse/treatment; behavioral treatments for cocaine dependence
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Robert Rosales
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The multilevels of oppression that produce health and health service disparities; Socioculturally adapted interventions to help address alcohol and substance use issues
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Alexander Sokolovsky
Assistant Professors of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research interests: The etiology and consequences of tobacco use and dependence; the application of experience sampling methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment or EMA) to better model antecedent processes and evaluate their influence on behavior; and the translation of this knowledge into the development of preventative interventions and treatments for smoking cessation.
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Robert Swift
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Clinical and laboratory research on the pharmacological treatment of alcohol and drug abuse and dependence
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Jennifer Tidey
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Director of Research
Tobacco regulatory science; smoking and other drug use in people with psychiatric illness; human behavioral pharmacology laboratory research; contingency management
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Hayley Treloar Padovano
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research is designed to bridge theory and research from the human laboratory to the natural environment through the pairing of longitudinal ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in adolescents' daily lives with psychophysiological assessments in a controlled laboratory setting
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Tara White
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Neural basis of individual differences in emotion and drug effects using fMRI, monoamine challenge; validated laboratory assessments of temperament, affect and behavior
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Tyler Wray
Edens Family Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Digital health; digital behavior change; user-centered design; dissemination and commercialization; virtual reality; addictions; HIV
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David Zelaya
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences