Minority health and health disparities; e-cigarettes; nicotine addiction and smoking cessation (pharmacotherapy and behavioral interventions) in vulnerable and ethnic minority populations; mentoring and career development

Behavioral and pharmacological effects of marijuana; co-use of marijuana and alcohol; behavioral economics of substance use; use of marijuana for medical purposes

Brief alcohol interventions; peer influence and social networks; bystander intervention for alcohol; alcohol biosensor research; computer- and smartphone-based assessment and intervention

Enhancing the efficacy of brief interventions for at-risk drinkers; understanding mediators and moderators of intervention effects; harnessing social influences (e.g., perceived norms) to modify drinking behavior; alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors 

Tobacco regulatory research; Adolescent smoking; e-cigarette use behaviors; smoking cessation; behavioral economics  

Uses qualitative and experimental methodology to better understand alcohol influences on sexual decision making

HIV; smoking cessation; electronic cigarette use behaviors, health effects of cigarette smoking, health promotion; cardiovascular risk reduction change

Laboratory-based and clinical research, primarily related to adolescent and young adult tobacco product use. Interest in qualitative/mixed methods research, ecological momentary assessment, and in brief motivational interventions for alcohol and other substance use.

Improving interventions and treatments for individuals with alcohol and other substance use disorders.

The impact of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use on alcohol consumption and consequences in the natural environment using ambulatory assessment and alcohol biosensors.

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

Developmental course, alcohol, initiation, progression, trajectories, adolescents, alcohol-tobacco comorbidity; longitudinal methodology and analysis, fine-grained data collection 

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.

Addressing alcohol misuse in HIV care; Mechanisms of behavior change in alcohol interventions for HIV prevention and care; Smoking cessation; co-use of alcohol and tobacco;  positive psychology and positive psychotherapy

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

Addictions treatment, behavioral or psychosocial interventions, longitudinal data-analysis; mechanisms of behavior change; mediators/moderators of treatment outcomes; process research

My primary research areas are: 1) theory and application of social network analysis; 2) social influence and selection on alcohol use and other co-occurring behavior, 3) developmental transitions and milestones among young adults not in four-year college, and 4) application of bystander intervention to alcohol use

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

Human laboratory models of cannabis and alcohol use disorders; behavioral pharmacology of marijuana; behavioral treatment of alcohol and cannabis use disorders; psychiatric comorbidity with cannabis use disorder; drug expectancy; drug-related cognitions and decision making

Understanding of how substance misuse and addiction develops and progresses during adolescence, with the ultimate goal of advancing clinical practice; treatment of adolescents with alcohol and other substance use disorders, with a special focus on testing new pharmacological interventions and using novel strategies to monitor how adolescents behave in their natural environment 

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

Alcohol treatment; brief interventions; mechanisms of change; cue reactivity; pharmacotherapy; adolescent use and abuse; alcohol and HIV/AIDs 

Research interests: addictions treatment; nicotine addiction; smoking cessation, e-cigarette use behaviors; multiple health behavior change; behavioral economics; obesity; weight gain prevention

Pharmacotherapy and behavioral treatment for smoking among substance    abusers; effects of pharmacotherapy for alcohol or smoking on mechanisms of effect; cue reactivity; measures development for alcohol, smoking; medications for opioid dependent people in the justice system

Clinical and laboratory research on the pharmacological treatment of alcohol and drug abuse and dependence

Tobacco regulatory science; cigarette, e-cigarette and other tobacco product use in vulnerable populations (youth, adults with substance use disorders, people with HIV, people with mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia); human behavioral pharmacology laboratory research; contingency management

Developmental changes in substance-use outcome expectancies, affectivity and impulsivity, and subjective responses to alcohol and cannabis over time; Longitudinal and nested data analysis; Ecological momentary assessment

Neural basis of individual differences in emotion and drug effects using structural MRI, functional MRI, MR spectroscopy; monoamine challenge; validated laboratory assessments of temperament, affect and behavior 

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