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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
Assistant 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
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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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Sara Becker
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adolescent substance use; Direct-to-consumer marketing of evidence-based interventions; Dissemination and implementation approaches
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Michael Bernstein
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Placebo effect/response; opioid use & misuse; experimental research; pain management
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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
Assistant 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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Suzanne Colby
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
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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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Carolina Haass-Koffler
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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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Sarah Helseth
Assistant Professors of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Reduce the public health impact of substance use disorders through the development and dissemination of effective behavioral interventions.
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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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Christopher Kahler
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences
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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Augustine Kang
Investigator in Behavioral and Social Sciences
Health disparities research; addictions treatment; behavioral interventions; clinical trial development; process evaluation; obesity prevention; chronic disease management
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Caroline Kuo
Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Family behavioral and psychosocial interventions; culturally and contextually appropriate intervention adaptation and development; new HIV prevention strategies in vulnerable global populations; community-engaged HIV research and dissemination
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Hector Lopez-Vergara
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dysregulatory risk factors for substance use and psychopathology, with an emphasis on executive functioning, motivational, and memory processes
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Molly Magill
Associate 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
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
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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Robert Miranda
Associate 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, Director of Alcohol and Addiction Studies
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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Don Operario
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
HIV prevention in high-risk communities - domestic and international; behavioral/social determinants of health in race/ethnic, gender and sexual minority populations
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Hayley Padovano
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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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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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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Jacob Vandenberg
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Medicine
The development and evaluation of community-based behavioral and biomedical health interventions for underserved and marginalized groups. Advancing the integration of health informatics (eHealth/mHealth) and behavioral strategies for preventing HIV/STIs among MSM
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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
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Using technology to prevent HIV/STIs and improve care; Alcohol and HIV; Statistical learning; Adaptive ecological and “just-in-time” interventions; User-centered design; Addictions; Healthcare use and adherence