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Name Title/Department Research Interests
Merry Armstrong,
    Email: armstrong@wsu.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Washington State University, Spokane
  • Addiction nursing
  • Homeless & addicted women
Michael Arthur, PhD
    Email: marthur@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor, Social Development Research Group
  • Adolescent antisocial behavior
  • State and community prevention systems
  • Prevention research methodology
Susan J. Astley, PhD
    Email: astley@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic & Prevention Network
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development & Disability
  • Screening, diagnosis and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
  • Computerized FAS facial photographic screening tool
John Baer, PhD
    Email: jsbaer@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Professor, Psychology
Director, Interdisciplinary Treatment of Substance Abuse Fellowship, VA Medical Center
  • Brief and preventive interventions for substance use
  • Process and outcome of addiction treatment
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Training evaluation
Nigel S. Bamford, MD
    Email: bamford@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics
  • Molecular and genetic basis of cerebellar and cortical dysgenesis
  • Synaptic function and regulation of corticostriatal projections
  • Aberrant cortical and striatal function in Huntington’s disease and psychostimulant withdrawal
  • Clinical: General child neurology; Neuronal and cerebellar dysgenesis; Drug addiction and withdrawal
Caleb Banta-Green, MSW, PhD
    Email: calebbg@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Epidemiological measures of illicit drug use in rural and urban settings
  • Utilization and effectiveness of drug treatment services
  • Emerging drugs of abuse
  • Drug use and associated risk behaviors including sexual risk taking and communicable diseases
  • Youth substance abuse
Blair Beadnell, PhD
    Email: blairb@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Social Work
  • HIV/AIDS education & prevention among adolescents
  • Risk-taking behavior of children and adults
Andrew H. Benjamin, JD, PhD
    Email: gahb54@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Affiliate Professor of Law
Director, Parenting Evaluation/Training Program (PETP)
  • Cultural aspects of alcoholism and alcohol abuse patterns
  • Prevention of alcoholism and alcohol abuse among the professions (especially lawyers)
Ilene Bernstein, PhD
    Email: ileneb@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychology
Investigator, Molecular Basis for Drug Abuse Research Center
  • Behavioral neuroscience
  • Conditioned drug reactions in anticipation of alcohol
  • Conditioned taste aversion with alcohol as unconditioned stimulus
  • Assessment of the rewarding effects of drugs using conditioned place preference
  • Assessment of the stimulant effects of drugs using automated activity monitors
Charles H. Bombardier, MD
    Email: chb@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
  • Preventing alcohol abuse following brain injury/spinal cord injury
  • Testing the effects of alcohol after brain injury
  • Motivational interviewing
Gail E. Bond, RN, PhD
    Email: gbond@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Assistant Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
  • Aging and alcohol consumption
  • Cross-cultural differences associated with alcohol, antidepressant use and cognitive performance in community dwelling older adults.
Fred Bookstein, PhD
    Email: flb@stat.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Statistic and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
Scientific Director, Fetal Alcohol & Drug Unit
  • Fetal alcohol synsrome and morphometrics
  • Brain form and correlations with behavioral deficits and psychiatric problems in people diagnosed with FASD
Katharine A. Bradley, MD, MPH
    Email: willi@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Medicine
Investigator, Health Services Research and Development, VA Puget Sound
  • Alcoholism prevention
  • Screening & assessment of alcohol problems in primary care
Richard N. Brandon, PhD
    Email: brandon@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Human Services Policy Center
Senior Research Fellow, Evans School of Public Affairs
  • Child and family well-being
  • Family support systems
Helen (Trez) Buckland, MEd
    Email: trezbuck@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Educational Outreach Coordinator, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Clinical Instructor, Health Services
  • Mental illness
  • Addiction
  • Education K-adult
Donald A. Calsyn, PhD
    Email: calsyn@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • HIV prevention interventions with injection drug users
  • Use of contingency management techniques in the treatment of drug abuse
Richard F. Catalano, Jr., PhD
    Email: catalano@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Social Development Research Group
Professor, School of Social Work
  • Drug abuse causation, treatment and prevention
  • Ethnic differences in causation and program effectiveness
Ana Mari Cauce, PhD
    Email: cauce@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Earl Carlson Professor of Psychology
Professor of American Ethnic Studies Executive Vice Provost, UW
  • At-risk children, adolescents, & families
  • Ethnic minority youth
  • Homeless youth
  • Adolescent substance abuse
  • Community psychology
Edmund Chaney, PhD
    Email: edmund.chaney@va.gov
Associate Professor, Psychological Services, VA Medical Center
  • Interaction of cognitive and social skills in influencing relapse
  • Behavioral treatment evaluations in health psychology
Charles Chavkin, PhD
    Email: cchavkin@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Center for Drug Addiction Research
Allan and Phyllis Treuer Professor, Pharmacology
  • Characterization of endogenous opioid peptide actions on single neurons in rodent brain
  • Identification of the roles of different opioid receptor types in cell physiology
  • Analysis of the adaptive changes following chronic morphine exposure at the receptor level
  • Characterization of the cellular sites of phencyclidine action
Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.
    Email: chudler@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Director of Education and Outreach, UW Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB)
  • Neuroscience for Kids
  • Effect of drugs on nervous system
  • Cortical and basal ganglia mechanisms of nociception and pain
Seema L. Clifasefi, PhD
    Email: seemac@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Coordinator, Addictive Behaviors Research Center
  • Effects of alcohol & placebos on eyewitness memory
  • Psychosocial models of addiction
  • Visual cognition, thought suppression, perceptual processes
  • State-dependent learning
Kate Comtois, PhD
    Email: comtois@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Adj. Associate Professor, Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics, Psychology
  • Suicide prevention, health services
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Evidence-based treatment (BPD)
  • Co-occurring disorders (BPD)
  • Employment and recovery for severe and persistently mentally ill
  • Training and implementation research
Paul D. Connor, PhD
    Email: cingulum@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Director, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
  • Neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and mental health assessments of individuals exposed to alcohol prenatally
Lucio G. Costa, PhD
    Email: lgcosta@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Director, Toxicology Program
  • Developmental neurotoxicity of ethanol
  • The phosphoinositide/ protein kinase C system as a possible target
  • Involvement of sigma receptor in the neurotoxicity of solvents and other drugs of abuse
Christine M. Coyne, PhD
    Email: coyne@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Postdoctoral Trainee, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Women & symptoms of protracted withdrawal
  • Women in recovery - their health & abstinence
Susanna L. Cunningham, PhD, RN, FAAN
    Email: susannac@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Adjunct Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
Kelly Davis, PhD
    Email: kcue@u.washington.edu
Research Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
  • Heterosexual HIV risk: Effects of men's alcohol use and sexual violence
Robert Day, MD, PhD, MPH
    Email: rday@fhcrc.org
Professor, Health Services
Director Emeritus, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Screening for cancer
  • Radiation
  • Epidemiology
  • DNA methylation
Dennis M. Donovan, PhD
    Email: ddonovan@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive-behavioral approaches to substance abuse and its treatment
  • Relapse prevention
  • Patient-treatment matching
  • Assessment of addictive behaviors
  • Treatment-seeking behavior among substance abusers
Suzanne R. Doyle, PhD
    Email: srdoyle@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Biostatistician, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Research design and statistical methods for evaluating the efficacy and/or effectiveness of interventions
  • Testing theoretical models related to substance abuse treatment and prevention
Christopher Dunn, PhD
    Email: cdunn@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Treatment outcome in substance abuse
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Brief substance abuse interventions
  • The science of disseminating evidence-based behavior change counseling treatments
Bonnie M. Duran, DrPH, MPH
    Email: bonduran@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Health Services
Director, Center for Indigenous Health Research
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Native American mental health
  • Health disparities, Native American mental health and substance abuse
Leona Eggert, PhD, RN, FAAN
    Email: eggert@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial and Community Health
  • Suicide risk from adolescence to young adulthood
Sharon Estee, PhD
    Email: EsteeSL@dshs.wa.gov
    Researcher website
WASBIRT Evaluation Project Director - Evaluation, Research and Data Analysis, DSHS
Collaborator, Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations
  • The collection of baseline screening data on alcohol and drug use at nine separate hospitals
  • Implementation of a six-month follow-up telephone survey with a sample of study participants
  • The collection of data on treatment services and discharges from treatment
  • The analysis of administrative records to determine outcomes associated with receiving a brief intervention or treatment for substance use disorders
Alan G. Fantel, PhD
    Email: agf@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Professor, Pediatrics
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
  • Teratogen activity and drug metabolism
  • Cocaine teratogenicity
Karen Fieland, PhD, MSW
    Email: kfieland@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Social Work
Lecturer, Social Work
Douglas A. Fitts, PhD
    Email: dfitts@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor
Psychology
  • Alcohol and body water
  • Alcohol preference
  • Cirrhosis
  • Neurobiology
  • Salt/water regulation in the body, thirst
Brian P. Flaherty, PhD
    Email: bxf4@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychology
  • Psychometric and genetic assessments of substance use
  • Substance use and development of dependence
  • Measurement, modeling and analysis of change over time
  • Transitions in tobacco use among adult smokers
Anthony Floyd, PhD
    Email: asfloyd@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Treatment variables and outcome
  • Sociological aspects of substance abuse
  • Data Analysis
Sharon Gavin Fought, RN, PhD
    Email: sgfought@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Physiological Nursing
  • Factors affecting sleep, quality and quantity of sleep in critically ill alcohol intoxicated patients
  • Nurses' knowledge of decision making with respect to alcohol intoxicated patients
Michelle Garner, MSW, PhC
    Email: mdgarner@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Assistant Professor, Social Work Program, UW Tacoma
Consultant, Addictive Behaviors Research Center
  • Motivational interviewing with adolescents
  • Motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy with traumatic brain injury patients
William H. George, PhD
    Email: bgeorge@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychology
  • Effects of alcohol on social, sexual, and aggressive behavior
  • Determinants of alcohol use and abuse
  • Treatment of alcoholism, and alcohol expectancies/beliefs
Lewayne D. Gilchrist, PhD
    Email: lewlew@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, School of Social Work
  • Substance abuse prevention with adolescents
  • Drug use and sexual behavior in adolescents and women
Joshua A. Ginzler, PhD
    Email: shua@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Etiology of substance abuse disorders and suicide
  • Substance abuse among high-risk popluations of homeless adolescents
Matthew Golden, MD, MPH
    Email: golden@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for AIDS and STD / Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Harborview Medical Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
  • Prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (STI), including HIV
  • Development of a methamphetamine early intervention
Edward Gottheil, MD, PhD
    Email: edgotthe@u.washington.edu
Professor, Pyschiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Postdoctoral Training Faculty, ABRC
  • Psychiatric criteria for substance-related disorders
  • Pathological gambling
Therese M. Grant, PhD
    Email: granttm@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Prevention of prenatal methamphetamine abuse
Marina Guizzetti, PhD
    Email: marinag@u.washington.edu
Research Scientist, Environmental Health
  • Ethanol and cholesterol homeostasis in the brain
Kevin Haggerty, MSW
    Email: haggerty@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Director, Social Development Research Group
  • Long term follow-up of Focus on Families
Abigail Halperin, MD, MPH
    Email: abigail@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Assistant Professor, Health Services
Director, Tobacco Studies in Public Health and Tobacco Scholars Program
  • Tobacco control research, advocacy and policy development
  • Clinical interventions for tobacco dependence and alcohol-related risk reduction among college students
Bryan Hartzler, PhD
    Email: hartzb@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Provider skill assessment
  • Treatment process and outcome
  • Neuropsychology of addictive behavior
Mary Hatch-Maillette, PhD
    Email: hatchm@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • (Research) Substance abuse treatment; Risk/threat assessment; Gender issues in forensic contexts; PTSD
  • (Clinical) Treatment of major psychiatric illness; Addictions treatment; Comorbidity of PTSD and addictions
J. David Hawkins, PhD
    Email: jdh@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, School of Social Work
Founding Director, Social Development Research Group
  • Alcohol and drug abuse prevention in childhood and adolescence
Christian Hendershot, PhC
    Email: chender@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Doctoral Student, Psychology
  • Genetic polymorphisms in relation to alcohol expectancies and drinking in Asian Americans
Jerald R. Herting, PhD
    Email: herting@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Aolescent drug and alcohol use, mental health, delinquency, and educational achievement
  • School-based interventions to prevent dropout, suicide risk, substance use/abuse
  • Methods to identify high-risk populations for indicated intervention programs
  • Survey design, instrument development, statistical models for evaluating program effectiveness
Karl G. Hill, PhD
    Email: khill@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Social Development Research Group
  • Understanding the factors that influence positive and problem youth and adult development
  • Intergenerational mechanisms and processes in development
  • Systems-oriented, social-developmental, life-span theory
Darryl Holman, PhD
    Email: djholman@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Anthropology
  • Prenatal alcohol exposure effects / dermatoglyphic traits
Carole Hooven, PhD
    Email: chooven@u.washington.edu
Research Scientist, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Understanding parent retention in indicated prevention
Akira Horita, PhD
    Email: horita@u.washington.edu
Professor Emeritus, Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Opiates, opioids and the central cholinergic system
  • Barbiturates and the central cholinergic system
  • Cocaine and amphetamines and central cholinergic system
Alice Huber, PhD
    Email: hubera@dshs.wa.gov
Supervisor, Evaluation & Quality Assurance
Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (DASA)
  • Treatment evaluation
  • Prevention evaluation
  • Health services evaluation
Janet E. Huggins, PhD
    Email: jhuggins@u.washington.edu
Clinical Psychologist, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
Earl Hunt, PhD
    Email: ehunt@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
  • Cognition psychometrics
  • Influence of alcohol and drugs on cognition
Stephen C. Hunt, MD, MPH
    Email: stephen.hunt@med.va.gov
    Researcher website
Medical Director, Deployment Health Clinic, VA Puget Sound
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Depression
  • Substance abuse and anxiety disorders
  • Integrated care for physical and mental health conditions
Karl Kaiyala, PhD
    Email: kkaiyala@u.washington.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences
  • Neuroadaptive substrates for nitrous oxide tolerance
Rebecca Kang, PhD
    Email: becca@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
  • Alcohol, drug, and violence prevention and mental health of Asian-Pacific Islanders
Michael G. Katze, PhD
    Email: honey@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Director for Research, NIDA Center for Functional Genomics and HCV-Related Liver Disease
Professor, Microbiology
  • Functional and structural genomics
  • Genomic, proteomic, and bioinformatic technologies to the study of liver disease, hepatitis C virus infection and AIDS
Debra Kaysen, PhD
    Email: dkaysen@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive processes, PTSD, and alcohol use
Kathryn (Kay) Kelly,
    Email: faslaw@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Project Director, FAS/E Legal Issues Resource Center
  • Legal issues related to FAS/FAE
Kevin M. King, PhD
    Email: kingkm@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychology
  • Pathways to alcohol and drug use and dependence
  • Stress and coping
  • Developmental psychopathology
  • Longitudinal ethods
Daniel R. Kivlahan, PhD
    Email: kivlahan@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor, Psychology
  • Patient-treatment matching
  • Prevention of alcohol problems in college students
  • American Indian adolescent alcohol and drug abuse
  • Subtypes among patients with PTSD and substance dependence
Kathryn E. Korslund, PhD
    Email: korslund@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Psychology
Associate Director, Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics
Richard Kosterman, PhD
    Email: rickk@u.washington.edu
Research Scientist, Social Development Research Group
  • Social development and psychopathology into adulthood
Toni Krupski, PhD
    Email: krupski@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations
Research Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
  • Outcomes of addiction treatment
  • Impact of research on public policy
  • Using administrative data to track outcomes of behavioral interventions
Henry Lai, PhD
    Email: hlai@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Professor, Bioengineering
  • Alcohol and transmitter systems and thermoregulation
  • Endogenous opioids
  • Correlations between behavioral and neurochemical effects of ethanol
  • Stress actions of psychoactive drugs, and neurochemistry
Mary E. Larimer, PhD
    Email: larimer@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors Associate Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center
  • Prevention and treatment of alcohol problems among adolescents and college students
  • Prediction of initiation of drinking and maintenance of low- or high-risk drinking patterns during college
  • Co-morbidity of substance use with depression, disordered eating, and gambling problems
  • Dissemination of evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches
Christine M. Lee, PhD
    Email: leecm@u.washington.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Personalized feedback intervention for marijuana use
Barbara C. Leigh, PhD
    Email: leigh@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Senior Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Epidemiology
  • Secondary data analysis
  • Survey methods
  • Methods for studying daily events
  • Using daily data collection to examine antecedents and consequences of substance use
Marsha M. Linehan, PhD
    Email: linehan@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychology
Director, Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics
  • Behavioral assessment & therapy
  • Suicide & parasuicide
  • Borderline personality disorders
  • Drug abuse and behavior therapy with women
Sherry Lipsky, PhD, MPH
    Email: lipsky@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV)
  • IPV and healthcare utilization
  • Effect of IPV on substance abuse treatment outcomes
Heather S. Lonczak, PhD
    Email: hzak@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Promotion of health and housing opportunities for chronic public inebriates
  • Predictors and prevention of aggressive and risky driving
  • Research processes and health promotion among American Indians
  • Family structure/stability and youth problem behaviors
Ty Lostutter, PhC
    Email: tylost@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors
Graduate student, Psychology
  • College student gambling
Kenneth Mackie, MD
    Email: kmackie@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Adjunct Professor, Anesthesiology
  • Cannabinoids and the brain
  • Neuronal cannabinoid receptor: function and regulation
G. Alan Marlatt, PhD
    Email: marlatt@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center
Professor, Psychology
  • Addictive behaviors
  • Self-control strategies
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • Maintenance of change (relapse prevention)
  • Health psychology
  • Behavioral medicine
  • Harm reduction
Walter Mason, PhD
    Email: wamason@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor, Social Development Research Group
  • Role of psychopathology in adolescent problem drug use
Ross Matsueda, PhD
    Email: matsueda@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor of Sociology
Associate Director, Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences
  • Life course trajectories of substance use and crime
Tim McAfee, MD, MPH
    Email: Tim.mcafee@freeclear.com
    Researcher website
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Services
Chief Medical Officer, Free & Clear
  • Health effects of tobacco use
  • Smoking cessation
  • Behavior modification
Barbara S. McCann, PhD
    Email: mccann@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Psychologist: East Clinic Outpatient/Inpatient CD/Trauma, Harborview
  • Eating disorders
  • Obesity
  • Application of hypnosis to psychiatric conditions
Jennifer McClure, PhD
    Email: mcclure.j@ghc.org
    Researcher website
Affiliate Associate Professor, Health Services
Associate Investigator, Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies
  • Health behavior change
  • Smoking cessation
  • Motivational interventions
Michael McDonell, PhD
    Email: mikemcd@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Treatment of substance abuse
  • Contingency management
  • Substance abuse in adolescence
  • Serious mental illness
  • Child and adolescent populations
Robert J. McMahon, PhD
    Email: mcmahon@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychology
  • Development and prevention of substance use problems
  • Prevention of adolescent conduct disorders
  • Role of psychopathology in adolescent problem drug use
  • Economic analysis of the Fast Track intervention
  • Child & adolescent tobacco use
Joseph O. Merrill, MD, MPH
    Email: joem@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Attending Physician, Adult Medicine Clinic, Harborview
  • Integrating opiate addiction treatment into general medical practice
  • Improving provider knowledge and skills in addiction medicine
Martina Morris, PhD
    Email: morrism@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Professor, Departments of Sociology and Statistics
  • Modeling HIV and STD in drug user and social networks
Diane M. Morrison, PhD
    Email: dmm@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, School of Social Work
  • Effect of drug and alcohol intoxication on plans to use, and use of, condoms during high- risk sexual intercourse
  • Parenting: Skills training for addicted parents enrolled in methadone maintenance
Shirley Murphy, PhD, FAAN
    Email: samurphy@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial and Community Health
Project Director, Nursing Research Training in Substance Abuse Project (NIDA)
  • Trauma and bereavement
  • Nursing research training in addictions
  • Addicted pregnant and parenting women
Amy Naleid, PhD
    Email: analeid@u.washington.edu
Senior Fellow Trainee, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • VTA opioid, GABA, and insulin effects on sucrose reward
Clayton T. Neighbors, PhD
    Email: claytonn@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors
  • Motivational and social influences related to etiology, prevention, and treatment of addictive, compulsive, and high-risk behaviors
  • Social norms, expectancies
  • Gambling
  • Agressive driving
Wendel L. Nelson, PhD
    Email: wlnelson@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Medicinal Chemistry
  • Opioid receptor systems
John F. Neumaier, MD, PhD
    Email: neumaier@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Regulation of serotonin receptors in animal models of psychiatric illness
Deborah Nickerson, PhD
    Email: debnick@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Genome Sciences
  • Drug abuse research experiences for students and teachers (StarNet program)
Jeanette Norris, PhD
    Email: norris@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Senior Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • The relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual victimization, especially acquaintance rape
  • Alcohol consumption and social influence processes as determinants of responses to sexually explicit material, including those containing violence
Paula S. Nurius, PhD
    Email: nurius@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Prevention Research Doctoral Training Program
Professor, School of Social Work
  • Social cognition
  • Stress and coping; trauma and resilience
  • Violence against women
  • Prevention research and intervention
  • Identity and self-concept
Heather Carmichael Olson, PhD
    Email: quiddity@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Senior Lecturer, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD)
  • Examining the impact of moderate levels of prenatal alcohol exposure
  • Tracking the developmental pattern of fetal alcohol effects in humans, including early attentional, memory and language deficits, and later neuropsychological and social cognitive performance
  • Establishing effective intervention techniques
Michael R. Oreskovich, MD
    Email: moreskov@u.washington.edu
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
  • Impaired physicians
Richard D. Palmiter, PhD
    Email: palmiter@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Neurobiology of drug action and addiction
  • Genetic techniques to study the role of neuromodulators in the development and function of the mammalian nervous system
George A. Parks, PhD
    Email: gparks@u.washington.edu
Associate Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center
  • Dissemination & community training
Jagoda Pasic, PhD
    Email: jpasic@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Medical Director, Psychiatry Emergency Services, Harborview
  • Emergency psychiatry health services research
  • Suicide
  • Acute agitation
  • Methamphetamine intoxication
  • Substance abuse and psychiatric mmergency services
Paul Peterson, PhD
    Email: peterspd@u.washington.edu
Director Emeritus, Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training
Paul E. M. Phillips, PhD
    Email: pemp@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Joint Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
  • Dynamic control of dopamine release in cocaine abuse
Jason Plaks, PhD
    Email: jep9@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychology
  • Motivation, attribution, stereotyping
  • Connection between people's implicit theories and the motivation for prediction and control.
  • Is behavioral changeable or malleable?
Cynthia Price, PhD, LMP
    Email: cynthiap@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Postdoctoral Trainee, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Trauma recovery
  • Chronic pain and substance abuse
  • Body-oriented psychotherapy
  • Mindfulness
Sandra Radin, PhD
    Email: sradin@u.washington.edu
Research Scientist
  • Meth and other drug use among AI/AN communities in Washington
  • AI/AN adolescents (Canoe Journey)
Douglas Ramsay, DMD, PhD, MSD
    Email: ramsay@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor and Chair, Dental Public Health Sciences
Professor, Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry
  • Mechanisms of drug tolerance, psychopharmacology, patient compliance, learning and memory, physiological psychology, tooth circulation, addictive disorders, pain.
Brooke Randell, DNSc, RN, CS
    Researcher website
Research Associate Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health
  • Adolescent risk behaviors
  • Youth suicide prevention
Dennis Rasmussen, PhD
    Email: drasmuss@u.washington.edu
Research Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Role the forebrain opiomelanocortinergic system may play in mediating neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to alcohol and other drugs of abuse
  • Common opioid mechanism in mediating responses to endogenous opioid system and exogenous opiates such as morphine and heroin
Joseph P. Reoux, MD
    Email: joe.reoux@med.va.gov
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director, Inpatient Addiction Treatment Program, VA Puget Sound
  • Pharmacotherapy of substance withdrawal
  • Relapse prevention
  • Protocols for alcohol and opioid detoxification
Richard K. Ries, MD
    Email: rries@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor and Director of Addictions Division, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director Outpatient Psychiatry and Addictions Programs, Harborview
  • Suicide and addiction
  • Twelve Step Facilitation
  • Treatment outcomes in severely mentally ill dually diagnosed outpatients
  • Contingency management models of treatment for methamphetamine and other substance abuse
  • Medication treatment for addiction
Karin Riggs, MSW
    Email: kriggs@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Program Manager, Tobacco Studies Program
  • Tobacco control
Carl T. Rimmele, PhD
    Email: rimmele.carl@va.gov
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavior Sciences
VAMC Addiction Treatment Center, Outpatient Program
  • Alcohol & traumatic brain injury
  • Cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic head injury
Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH
    Email: fpr@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
George Adkins Professor, Division Head, Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Founding Director, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
  • Prevention of the major causes of death in the US through interventions in childhood and adolescence.
  • Prevention of smoking, violence, alcohol related mortality, obesity and physical inactivity.
  • Alcohol and driving: designated driver programs
Roger A. Roffman, DSW
    Email: roffman@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Innovative Programs Research Group
Professor, School of Social Work
  • Clinical research with adult chronic marijuana smokers
John M. Roll, PhD
    Email: johnroll@wsu.edu
    Researcher website
Director, Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research & Training
Affiliated Investigator, NIDA Clinical Trials Network, Pacific Northwest Node, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Contingency management
  • Methamphetamine
William J. Rorabaugh, PhD
    Email: rorabaug@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, History
President, Alcohol and Drugs History Society
  • History of alcohol use in America
David B. Rosengren, PhD
    Email: dbr@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Help-seeking behavior
  • Treatment outcome
  • Treatment matching
Megan Rutherford, PhD
    Email: mruthfrd@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Diagnostic and assessment instruments
  • Cocaine treatment outcome
  • Substance abuse among juvenile offenders
Paul D. Sampson, PhD
    Email: pds@stat.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Professor, Statistics
Senior Statistician, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
  • Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling in environmental statistics
  • Geometric morphometrics
  • Statistical methods for the analysis of prenatal alcohol exposure and Offspring development
Andrew J. Saxon, MD
    Email: Andrew.Saxon@med.va.gov
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Addiction Patient Careline, Mental Health Services, VA Puget Sound
  • Opioid pharmacology and treatment of dependence
  • Cocaine pharmacology and treatment of abuse
  • Cannabis pharmacology and treatment of abuse
  • Serotonergic mechanisms of drug actions AIDS and HIV infection in IV drug users
  • Urine toxicology screening for drug abuse
Eric Schnapper, JD
    Email: schnapp@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Pendleton Miller Chair in Law, Professor of Law
PI, FASD Legal Issues Resource Center
  • Legal issues related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Carole Schroeder, PhD
    Email: carolesc@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Disparities in access to health care
  • Marginalized populations; racism limiting access to care.
  • Services for addicted pregnant women
Jane M. Simoni, PhD
    Email: jsimoni@u.washington.edu
Professor, Psychology
Area Head, Adult Clinical & Practicum Coordinator (Psychology)
  • Health & community psychology in underrepresented populations
  • Coping with trauma, chronic illness, and other stressful life events
  • Culturally specific coping processes, e.g. among ethnic/racial minorities, women, gay men and lesbians, and persons living with HIV
  • Alcohol drinking, sexual arousal & HIV/AIDS risk-taking
Tracy L. Simpson, PhD
    Email: tracys@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
VA Puget Sound
  • Alcohol dependence
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Kevin L. Sloan, MD
    Email: klsloan@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Chief, Dual Disorders Program, Addictions Patient Care Line, VA Puget Sound
  • Psychopharmacology of serious and persistent mental illness comorbid with substance dependence
  • Case detection and treatment of Hepatitis C
  • Case-mix adjustment and issues related to psychiatric and medical comorbidities
Karen Snedker, PhD
    Email: snedker@u.washington.edu
Research Scientist, Psychosocial and Community Health
  • The impact of neighborhood context on substance abuse
Nephi Stella, PhD
    Email: nstella@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
  • Cannabinoid signaling system in microglial cell
  • Cannabinoids and neuroinflammation
Andrea L. Stone, PhD
    Email: stoneal@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Postdoctoral Trainee, Psychosocial & Community Health
  • Trauma recovery
  • Marijuana use by youth
  • Hallucinogen dependence syndrome in adolescents
  • Developmental pathways, epidemiology of psychiatric and substance use disorders in youth
Susan Stoner, PhD
    Email: sastoner@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Psychology
Research Scientist, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute
  • Effects of acute alcohol intoxication
  • Alcohol and sexual risk behaviors
  • Alcohol expectancies
Eric Strachan, PhD
    Email: erstrach@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Acting Instructor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Director, UW Twin Registry
  • Psychoneuroimmunology
  • Twin studies
  • Treatment of co-occurring disorders
  • Treatment of stimulant dependence in HIV infected patients
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for voices, paranoia, and delusions
  • Chronic pain and fatigue
Ann P. Streissguth, PhD
    Email: astreiss@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor Emerita, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Founder, Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit
  • Alcohol and pregnancy: Neuro- behavioral and morphologic effects on offspring across the lifespan, maternal alcoholism, FAS
  • Cocaine and pregnancy: Effects on mothers and babies
  • Clinical and epidemiologic studies of children of alcohol/drug abusing mothers
Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD
    Email: sullimar@u.washington.edu
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medical History and Ethics
  • Long-term opioid management of chronic pain: trends and risks
Stephen Sulzbacher, PhD
    Email: sis@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics
Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability
  • Behavioral/developmental effects of drugs (currently anti-convulsants)
  • Management of pain and nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy
Nancy L. Sutherland, MLS
    Email: nsutherland@adai.washington.edu
Associate Director, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute
  • Orgnization & management of information
  • Dissemination of substance abuse information
Gregory Terman, MD, PhD
    Email: gwt@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
  • Modulation of spinal cord LTP by kappa opioids
Lisa Rey Thomas, PhD
    Email: lrthomas@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Community-based and culturally-based research on Native American youth and substance abuse
Elaine Adams Thompson, PhD, RN
    Email: elainet@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, School of Nursing, Psychosocial & Community Health
PI, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program
  • Prevention of adolescent depression, aggression, substance use
  • Risky behaviors and suicide risk
  • Intervention and evaluation research
  • Advanced multivariate analytic techniques
Beti Thompson, PhD
    Email: bthompso@fhcrc.org
    Researcher website
Professor, Health Services
Full Member, Cancer Prevention Research Program, FHCRC
  • Smoking cessation - among college students, pregnant women, epidemiology
  • Dietary change
  • Cancer prevention
  • Community-based research
Eric Trupin, PhD
    Email: trupin@u.washington.edu
Director, Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy
Professor, Psychiatry
  • Developing Prime Time project for double jeopardy youth
Michael V. Vitiello, PhD
    Email: vitiello@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Relationship between alcohol consumption/history and impaired nocturnal breathing
  • Alcohol use in the elderly
Michael R. Von Korff, ScD
    Email: vonkorff.m@ghc.org
Senior Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative
Professor, Affiliate appointment, Department of Health Services and Department of Psychiatry, UW
  • Natural history and management of chronic pain and depression in primary care
Ann Voorhies, PhD
    Email: anncv@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Lecturer, Psychology
  • Neural substrates of motivation for natural rewards
Anna Wald, MD, MPH
    Email: annawald@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Treatment of acute Hepatitis C in injection drug users
Denise D. Walker, PhD
    Email: ddwalker@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Assistant Professor, Social Work
Clinical Director, Innovative Programs Research Group
  • Marijuana use in adolescents
  • Motivational interviewing
Karina Walters, PhD
    Email: kw5@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professorship, Social Work
Director, Indigenous Wellness Research Center
  • American Indian and Alaska Native health, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, and other wellness areas
  • Multicultural social work practice identity, enculturation and cultural factor that buffer the effect of historical trauma, discrimination, and other forms of trauma and violence on indigenous wellness outcomes
Chia C. Wang, MD, MS
    Email: chiaw@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Assistant Professor, Allergy and Infectious Disease
Founder and Co-Director, Viral Hepatitis Program, Harborview
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis B
  • Diagnosis of depression in former IV drug users with chronic hepatitis
Carolyn Webster-Stratton, PhD
    Email: cws@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor & Director, Parenting Research Clinic
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
  • Preventing conduct problems, promoting social competence
Joseph G. Weis, PhD
    Email: weis@u.washington.edu
Professor, Sociology
Director, Center for Law and Justice
  • Delinquency and deviance
  • Criminology and drug abuse
Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Wells, PhD
    Email: bwells@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Professor, School of Social Work
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive behavioral approaches to treatment for opiate and cocaine dependence
  • Prevention of drug use and sexual risk behavior
Ursula Whiteside, PhC
    Email: star8@u.washington.edu
NIAAA Predoctoral Research Fellow, Clinical Psychology
Project Director, Beyond BASICS
  • Adapting interventions for college student drinkers
Thomas M. Wickizer, PhD
    Email: tomwick@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Professor, Health Services and Community Medicine
Master of Health Administration Program, Social and Behavioral Sciences Track (MPH)
  • Economic outcomes of substance abuse treatment
  • Managed care costs and outcomes
  • Health economics, health services organization and policy
Katie Witkiewitz, PhD
    Email: kate19@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  • Quantitative methods; variable modeling; nonlinear dynamical systems
  • Analysis of clinical treatment outcomes and relapse
  • Mindfulness-based treatments for alcohol & drug abuse
  • Harm reduction approaches to the treatment of addiction
Briana Woods, PhC
    Email: bawoods@u.washington.edu
Graduate Student, Psychology
  • Understanding alcohol use among African American youth
Douglas F. Zatzick, MD
    Email: dzatzick@u.washington.edu
    Researcher website
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Attending Consult Services, Harborview
  • Disseminating organizational screening and brief intervention (SBI) services in trauma centers
  • PTSD and substance abuse in acute care medical settings