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Welcome to my home page. I'm a faculty member in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The navigation bar on the left will take you to those pages that describe my research and teaching activities. If you're interested in pursuing doctoral study in clinical psychology, descriptive information and instructions on how to apply can be found on our clinical psychology program home page. |
| My own research interests are
broad but primarily focus on the etiology and course of substance use
disorders (particularly alcohol dependence) across the life span. I direct
the Alcohol, Health, and Behavior
Project a high-risk, prospective study of a cohort of college students
who were freshmen in 1987 and are now in their 30s.
I also direct IMPACTS, a recently completed study that followed a cohort of students who were first-time freshmen at the University of Missouri-Columbia, in the Fall of 2002, over their four years of college. |
In addition to research projects based here at the University of Missouri, several MU colleagues and I are very involved with research projects based at the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center (MARC) in the Department of Psychiatry of Washington University School of Medicine.
I currently direct a research training grant on the psychology of alcohol use, abuse, and dependence that supports several graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Trainees can conduct research and undertake focused study with any of several faculty members in the Department who specialize in alcohol studies and also gain some exposure to patient populations with problematic alcohol involvement. I hope to have a web page up describing the program in greater detail soon. Please check back.
