The work conducted as part of the Alcohol Health and Behavior Project and
IMPACTS represents a collaborative effort of many individuals over many years.
Below are current research faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students whose
primary responsibilities are central to the ongoing success of these projects.
In addition to those listed below, regular faculty collaborators include
Doug Steinley and
Phil Wood. Other faculty members we
work closely with on other projects include
Thomas Piasecki,
Bruce Bartholow,John Kerns,
Denis McCarthy,
Tim Trull, and
Wendy Slutske.
Staff
Faculty Collaborators at MU
Bruce Bartholow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
John Kerns, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Denis McCarthy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Vicki Osborne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Social Work)
Tom Piasecki Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Wendy Slutske, Ph.D.
Professor
Doug Steinley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Amelia Talley, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Tim Trull, Ph.D.
Professor
Phil Wood, Ph.D.
Professor
Faculty Collaborators at Other Places
Arpana Agrawal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
Kathy Bucholz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
Laurie Chassin, Ph.D.
Regents' Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
Patrick Curran, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kim Fromme, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas -Austin
Andrew Heath, D. Phil.
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
Andrea Hussong, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kristina Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health (Research), Brown University
Matt Kushner, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota School of Medicine
Michael Lynskey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
Chris Martin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow (AY 2011-2012)
Cameron Weaver, Ph.D.
1st year
Current Postdoc's Publications
Cohen,
L. M., Collins, F. L., Jr., VanderVeen, J. W., & Weaver, C. C. (2010).
Chewing gum: Can it help cigarette smokers quit and does flavor matter?
Addictive Behaviors, 35, 955-960.
Gilbert, S. P., & Weaver, C. C. (2010). Sleep quality and academic
performance in university students: A wake-up call for college psychologists.
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 24,
295-306.
Graduate Students (AY 2011-2012)
Andrew Littlefield, M.A.
6th year
Alvaro Verges, M.A.
4th year
Rachel Winograd, B.A.
3rd year
Angela Haeny, B.A.
2nd year
Stephanie Schroder, B.A.
1st year
Current Graduate Students' Publications
Agrawal, A., Grant, J. D., Littlefield, A. K., Waldron, M., Pergadia, M. L.,
Lynskey, M. T., Madden, P. A. F. , Todorov, A., Trull, T., Bucholz, K. K., Todd,
R. D., Sher, K. J. & Heath, A. C. (2009). Developing a quantitative measure
of alcohol consumption for genomic studies on prospective cohorts.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs,70,
157-168.
Agrawal, A. A., Lynskey, M. T., Todorov, A. A.,
Schrage, A. A., Littlefield, A. K., Grant, J. D., Zhu, Q., Nelson, E.
C., Madden, P. A. F., Bucholz, K. K., Sher, K. J. & Heath, A. C. (in press). A
candidate gene association study of alcohol consumption in young women.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Blonigen, D., Littlefield, A. K., Hicks, B., & Sher, K. J. (2010). Course of
antisocial behavior during emerging adulthood: Developmental differences in
personality. Journal of Research in Personality,
44,
729-733.
Buu, A., Wang, W.,
Schroder, S. A., Kalaida, N. L., Puttler, L. I., & Zucker, R. A. (in press).
Developmental emergence of alcohol use disorder symptoms and their potential as
early indicators for progression to alcohol dependence in a high risk sample: A
longitudinal study from childhood to early adulthood. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology.
Cicero, D.,Epler, A. J., & Sher, K. J. (2009). Are there
developmentally-limited forms of bipolar disorder? Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 118, 431-447.
Geary, D. C., Bailey, D. H., Littlefield, A. K.,
Wood, P. K., Hoard, M. K., & Nugent, L. (2009). First-grade predictors of
mathematical learning disability: A latent class trajectory analysis.
Cognitive Development, 4, 411-429.
Kristjansson, S. D.,
Agrawal, A., Littlefield, A. K., Pergadia, M. L.,
Lessov-Schlaggar. C. N., Sartor, C. E., Bucholz, K. K., Madden, P. A. F.,
Cooper, M. L., Sher, K. J., & Heath, A. C. (in press). Drinking
motives in female smokers: Factor structure, alcohol dependence, and genetic
influences. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research.
Littlefield, A. K., Agrawal, A., Ellingson, J., Kristjansson, S., Madden, P. A.
F., Bucholz, K. K., Slutske, W. S., Heath, A. C., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Does
variance in drinking motives explain the genetic overlap between personality and
alcohol use disorder symptoms? A twin study of young women. Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research, 35, 2242-2250.
Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, K. J. (2010). Alcohol use disorders
in young adulthood. In J. E. Grant and M. N. Potenza (Eds.), Young Adult
Mental Health, pp. 292-310. New York: Oxford University Press.
Littlefield, A. K., &
Sher, K. J. (2010).
The multiple, distinct ways that personality contributes to alcohol use
disorders. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 767-782.
Littlefield, A. K., &
Sher, K. J. (in press). Personality and substance use disorders. In K. J. Sher
(Ed.), Handbook of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, K.
J. (in press).
Smoking desistance and personality change in emerging and young adulthood.
Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
Littlefield, A. K., Sher, K. J., & Steinley, D. (2010).
Developmental trajectories of impulsivity and their association with alcohol use
and related outcomes during emerging and young adulthood I. Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research, 34,
1409-1416.
Littlefield, A., Sher, K. J., & Wood, P. K.
(2009). Is
'maturing out' of problematic alcohol involvement related to personality change?
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 360–374.
Littlefield, A., Sher, K. J., & Wood, P. K.
(2010). Do changes in drinking motives mediate the
relation between personality change and "maturing out" of
problem
drinking?" Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 93-105.
Littlefield, A. K., Sher, K. J., & Wood, P. K. (2010). A
personality-based description of maturing out of alcohol problems: Extension
with a Five-Factor Model and robustness to modeling challenges. Addictive
Behaviors, 35, 948-954.
Littlefield, A. K., Vergés, A.,
& Sher, K. J. (2010). Three (or more) alcohol dependence symptoms but not
clustered in the same 12 months: Diagnostic orphans from a longitudinal
perspective. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drug, 71,
864-869.
Littlefield, A. K., Verges, A., Wood, P.
K., & Sher, K. J. (in press).
Transactional models between personality and alcohol involvement: A further
examination. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology.
Littlefield, A. K., Vergés, A.,
McCarthy, D. M., & Sher, K. J. (2011).
Interactions between self-reported alcohol outcome expectancies and cognitive
functioning in the prediction of alcohol use and associated problems: A further
examination. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 542-546.
Martin, C. S., Steinley, D. L.,
Vergés,
A., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Letter to the Editor:
The proposed 2/11 symptom algorithm for DSM-5
Substance Use Disorders is too lenient.
Psychological Medicine.
Sher, K . J., & Littlefield, A. (2008). Codependency. InPamela Korsmeyer & Henry Kranzler (Eds), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior,
3rd edition, Vol. 1, pp. 331-333. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Sher, K . J., & Littlefield, A. (2008). Risk factors for
substance use, abuse, and dependence: Personality. InPamela Korsmeyer &
Henry Kranzler(Eds), Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior,
3rd edition, Vol. 3, pp. 407-413. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Sher,
K. J., Martinez, J. A., & Littlefield, A. K. (2011). Alcohol use disorders.
In D. H. Barlow (Ed.), Handbook of Clinical Psychology,
pp. 405-445. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Sher,
K. J., Talley, A. E., Littlefield, A. K., & Martinez, J. A. (in press). Alcohol use
and alcohol use disorders. In H. Friedman (Ed.),
Handbook of Health Psychology. New York: Oxford.
Sher, K. J., Winograd, R., & Haeny, A. (in press). Disorders of impulse
control. In T. A. Widiger, & I. B. Weiner (Eds.) Comprehensive Handbook of
Psychology, 2nd edition. Volume Eight: Clinical Psychology. New
York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Sher, K. J.,
Winograd, R. , & Vergés,
A. (in press). Alcohol: Psychosocial effects. In V. S. Ramachandran (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
Sher, K. J., Wolf, S. T., &
Martinez, J. A. (2009). How can
etiological research inform the distinction between normal drinking and
disordered drinking? In L. M. Scheier (Ed.), Handbook of drug use etiology,
pp. 225-246.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Talley, A. E., Sher,
K. J., & Littlefield, A. K. (2010). Sexual
minority status and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood. Addiction,
105,
1235-1245.
Talley, A. E.,
Sher, K. J., Steinley, D., Wood, P. K., & Littlefield, A. K. (in press).
Patterns of alcohol use and consequences among empirically derived sexual
minority subgroups. Journal of Studies
on Alcohol and Drugs.
Talley, A. E., Tomko, R. L., Littlefield, A. K., Trull, T. J., &
Sher, K. J. (2011). The role of general identity disturbance in reports of
lifetime substance use disorders among sexual minority adults with a history of
substance use.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25, 530-541.
Vergés, A. (2010). Integrating contextual issues in ethical decision
making. Ethics and Behavior,20, 497-507
Vergés, A., Jackson, K. M., Bucholz, K. K., Grant,
J. D., Trull, T. J., & Wood, P. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press).
Deconstructing the age-prevalence curve of alcohol dependence: Why 'maturing
out' is only a small piece of the puzzle.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Vergés, A., Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, K. J. (2011).
Did lifetime rates
of alcohol use disorders increase by 67% in ten years? A comparison of NLAES and
NESARC. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
120,
468-477.
Vergés, A. & Sher, K. J. (2011, Fall). Alcohol use and the transition to
college.The Addiction Newsletter, 18 (3), 15-16.
Vergés,
A. & Sher, K. J. (in press). Personality and contextual factors in college
students’ drinking. In H. R. White and D. Rabiner (Eds.),
College substance use: Etiology, consequences and prevention. New York: Guilford.
Vergés, A., Steinley, D., Trull,
T. J., & Sher, K. J. (2010).
It's the algorithm! Why
differential rates of chronicity and comorbidity are not evidence for the
validity of the abuse-dependence distinction.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology,119,
650–661.
Winograd, R. (in press). The balance
between providing support, prolonging suffering, and promoting death: The
ethical issues surrounding psychological treatment of a terminally-ill client.
Ethics and Behavior.
Winograd, R.,
Littlefield, A. K., & Sher, K. J. (in press). Do people who 'mature out' of
drinking see themselves as more mature? Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research.
Current Graduate Student Friends of AHB/IMPACTS
(working under a different mentor but collaborating with
our lab)
Ash Levitt, M.A.
David Cicero, M.A.
Gone But Not Forgotten
Former Postdocs
Young-Hee Cho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychology, California State University - Long Beach
(co-advisor)
Anneke Gourdrian, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Emily Grekin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Kristie Jackson, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Brown University
Patricia Rutledge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Allegheny College
Amelia Talley, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Sarah Tragesser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Washington State University
Trish Vandiver, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dolores Welder Mitchell Chair, Dept. of Psychology, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
Martha Vungkhanching, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, California State Univesity - Fresno
Former Doctoral Students
(If I don't have you listed and I should, please drop me an
email with a photo attachment; I'd love to add you to the gallery and hear what
you're up to. Also, please update current position, name changes, etc.)
Courtney Bagge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Karen Baumstark, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Kairos Psychological PC, Omaha, NE
(was co-advisor)
Jeff Burk, Ph.D.
Associate Chief Consultant for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Services, Office of Mental Health Services, VA Central Office
Amee Epler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi School of Medicine and Psychologist, VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS
(was co-advisor)
Heather Gotham, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, UM-KC and the Mid America ATTC
Shelly Grabe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of California - Santa Cruz
(was co-mentor)
Dan Kivlahan, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof, University of Washington and Director, Ctr of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education, VA Puget Sound
Jennifer (Farha) Landon, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Kansas City VAMC
Jenny (Larkins) Rosinski, Ph.D.
Staff Psychologist, Leavenworth VAMC
Matt Kushner, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota
Eric Martin, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Treatment Team Leader, Social Learning Program, Fulton State Hospital
Julia Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Colgate University
Susan O'Neill, Ph.D.
Psychologist, University of Missouri Health Services
Aesoon Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Gilbert Parra, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Memphis
Kimberly Walitzer, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Research Institute on Addictions, University of Buffalo
Reinout Wiers, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Amsterdam
(was co-promoter)
Mark Wood, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Rhode Island
Former Master's Students
(If I don't have you listed and I should, please drop me an
email with a photo attachment; I'd love to add you to the gallery and hear what
you're up to. Also, please update current position, name changes, etc.)
Stephanie (Hurlbut) Acquilano, M.A.
Research Associate in Psychiatry, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
Tim Crews, M.A.
Executive Director, Audrain Developmental Disabilities, Mexico, MO
Beth Gershuny, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bard College
Arthur Goodwin, M.A.
Senior Research Associate, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Melanie Grafing Wilson, Ph.D.
Psychologist, St. Louis, MO
Former Undergraduate Students
(if I don't have you listed and I should, please drop me an
email with a photo attachment; I'd love to add you to the gallery and hear what
you're up to)
Susan Bassford Wilson J.D.
Attorney, St. Louis
Joel Baumgart, B.A., Doctoral Candidate
Program in Neuroscience, University of Virginia
Tammy Brazeal, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Cox Health, Springfield, MO
Pam Fike, M.A.
Licensed Professional Counselor, Independent Practice
Taylor Harvey
Student
Tiffany Loomis, B.A.
Law Student, UC Hastings College of Law
Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Notre Dame de Namur University and Independent Practice, Burlingame, CA
Liz O'Laughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, Indiana State University
Shivani Nanda, J.D.
Attorney, Stammer, McKnight, Barnum, and Bailey, Fresno, CA
Former NIAAA Summer Interns
Class of 2009
Bianca Aaron
Molly Gallagher
Elaina Miller
Former Staff Members
(if I don't have you listed and I should, please drop me an
email with a photo attachment; I'd love to add you to the gallery and hear what
you're up to)
Wendy Berlynn, B.A.
Chris Buckel, M.S.W.
Research Coordinator, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, Washington University
Alison Hodgson, M.A.
Photojournalist/ Photographer
Jeff Hyde, B.A.
Captain, U.S. Army, Columbia, MO
Sarah Mitchell, B.A.
Graduate Student, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri
Christina Pate, Ph.D.
School Psychology Resident, University of Missouri
Cindi Tahmahkera-Stevens, B.S.
Amy Watson, M.Ed.
Coordinator, ECE Alternate Education, Charter Oak State College
Carol Waudby, M.S.
Research Coordinator, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
