CDART

Administrative Structure

Executive Committee

Michael Bardo earned his PhD at Iowa State University in 1980, specializing in animal learning and psychopharmacology, and he received postdoctoral training in neuropharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa. In 1982, he assumed a faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, where he now holds the rank of Full Professor. Bardo has over 100 publications and he currently serves as Director of CDART. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of environmental stimuli in controlling drug self-administration in laboratory animals, and the long-term goal is to translate this basic science into the development of improved prevention interventions. Dr. Bardo was a founding member of the Society for Prevention Research.

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Psychology/faculty/mbardo.html

email: mbardo@uky.edu

Richard Charnigo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics (College of Public Health) and Department of Statistics (College of Arts and Sciences). His research interests in statistics include theory and methods for mixture modeling and nonparametric smoothing. His areas of interest for scientific research include public health, cardiology, psychology, and substance abuse prevention.

www.richardcharnigo.net

email: RJCharn2@aol.com

Rick Zimmerman received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the University of Kentucky in 1994 and then Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. Dr. Zimmerman's interests are in PSA campaigns to promote safer sex and drug awareness.

http://blog.vcu.edu/somprofiles/2009/06/rick-zimmerman-phd.html

email: rzimmerman@vcu.edu

Pam Cupp received her Ph.D. in communication in 2002 from the University of Kentucky. She is currently the Deputy Director and a Research Scientist at the Louisville Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Development and is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. For the past 15 years, Dr. Cupp has been collaborating with an interdisciplinary research team on the development of prevention programs and messages for adolescents and young adults. The content of these programs has alternately focused on substance use and abuse, HIV/STD/pregnancy prevention, and intimate partner violence and implementation sites have ranged from Thailand to South Africa and Ethiopia to and rural and urban areas of the U.S. Intervention formats have included school-based classroom curricula, community-based peer-led programs, and media campaigns.

email: pkcupp00@uky.edu

Richard Millich earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University in 1976, and did postdoctoral work in child psychopathology at the University of Iowa. In 1985 he joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, where he is now Professor and Associate Chair. Milich is Administrative Director of CDART. His research interests involve children's behavior problems, especially attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder. He has been involved in a long-term follow-up study examining how these early behavior problems may put these children at risk for later substance use problems.

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Psychology/faculty/rmilich.html

email: milich@uky.edu

Donald Lynam Donald Lynam earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in clinical psychology in 1995. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Purdue University. He has over 50 publications and was the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. He is currently a member of the CDART executive committee and Principal Investigator for Project 3. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of individual differences in personality on the development and maintenance of deviant behavior (i.e., antisocial behavior, substance abuse, and risky sexual behavior).

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email: dlynam@psych.purdue.edu

Thomas Kelly earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1983, specializing in Experimental Psychology and Behavioral Pharmacology. He received postdoctoral training in Human Behavioral Pharmacology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1992, he assumed a faculty position in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky, where he now holds the rank of Full Professor. Kelly currently serves as the Scientific Director of CDART and is Principal Investigator for Project 2. His current research interests are focused on understanding individual differences in vulnerability to drug abuse and environmental influences on drug abuse liability.

http://www.mc.uky.edu/behavioralscience/kelly.asp

email: thkelly@uky.edu

Linda Dwoskin is a neuropharmacologist and the US Surgical-Pfizer Endowed Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy. She earned her PhD from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota in 1983. In 1988, Dwoskin was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy and rose through the ranks to become the first woman basic-scientist Full Professor in the College. Dwoskin has over 100 publications and 15 patent and patent applications. Dwoskin serves on the Executive Committee of CDART and as a co-investigator on Project 1. Her research interests are focused on the development of novel treatments for drug abuse and on understanding the role of genetics and environmental factors underlying individual responsiveness to drugs of abuse and an individual's potential for abuse liability

http://www.uky.edu/Pharmacy/faculty/Dwoskin/

email: ldwoskin@email.uky.edu

Richard Kryscio is Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky (UK) where he has been on the faculty for the past twenty-six years. He earned his doctorate in Statistics in 1972 from SUNY, Buffalo and did a one year post doctorate at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. He has been the statistical collaborator on fifty five grants in the biomedical sciences in which he assumes responsibility for study design, power analysis, and data analysis. These grants cover diverse areas in biomedical research including traumatic brain injury, cancers of the central nervous system, screening for ovarian cancer, amythrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and drug abuse research. His research program emphasizes the application of applied probability to problems in public health with specific interests in clinical trials, spread of infectious diseases, spatial statistics, the temporal clustering of diseases, and statistical methodology in Alzheimer’s disease research including longitudinal data analysis.

email: kryscio@uky.edu

Internal Advisory Committee

Paul Glaser is the Vice Chair of Research in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky. He holds both a M.D. and a Ph.D. Dr. Glaser's clinical research has focused on Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Developmental Pediatrics and Neuroscience Research.

email: pglas0@email.uky.edu

Chana Akins earned her PhD at the University of Texas/Austin in 1994, specializing in learning, comparative psychology, and sexual behavior, and she received postdoctoral training under Drs. Zentall and Bardo in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky. In 1996, she assumed an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. Dr. Akins is currently involved in recruitment and training components of CDART. Her current research interest is focused on the effects of substance abuse on sexual motivation and behavior, and also prenatal effects of drugs of abuse on adult motivation and learning. She uses a unique visually-oriented bird species, Japanese quail, whose sexual motivation/behavior pattern and neurohormonal system have been well-studied.

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Psychology/faculty/cakins.html

email: ckakin1@uky.edu

Sharon Walsh is a Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, and Executive Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Walsh's clinical research has focused on pharmacological issues in opioid and cocaine dependence, including pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic studies of licit and illicit opioids and opioid treatment agents, including buprenorphine, methadone and LAAM, and has evaluated potential pharmacotherapies for efficacy and safety in the treatment of cocaine dependence. Her work has been supported through continuous funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse along with funding from private foundations and industry. She was the 1997 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers conferred by President William Clinton.

email: sharon.walsh@uky.edu

Seth Noar earned his Ph.D. in communication from Univeristy of Rhode Island in 2001. Dr. Noar's specialties are in health communication, mass and interactive media, health behavior theory, HIV/STD prevention and meta-analysis.

http://comm.uky.edu/?page=Faculty&ID=97

email: noar@uky.edu

Leslie Crofford earned her MD from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences College of Medicine in Mephis Tennessee. Currently she is a Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Gloria W. Singletary Chair, and Director, Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests are in Rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory mediators, prostaglandins and cyclooxygenase); fibromyalgia epidemiology, genetics, pathophysiology and treatment; epidemiology of autoimmune disease; intense immunosuppression and stem cell transplant in scleroderma; treatment of polymyositis/dermatomyositis.

http://www.mc.uky.edu/cvrc/faculty/crofford-leslie/

email: lcrofford@uky.edu

Craig Rush research interests are primarily focused on identifying putative pharmacotherapies for the management of stimulant dependence. Dr. Rush uses the principles of pharmacology and behavioral analysis to determine the effects of commonly abused stimulants alone and following pretreatment with the putative pharmacotherapy. Special emphasis is given to putative stimulant antagonists as well as agonist replacement therapies. Currently, there are four funded projects underway in Dr. Rush’s laboratory. The first project is investigating the neuropharmacology of stimulant abuse in humans. Specifically, this project is attempting to elucidate the role of dopamine, a chemical in the brain, in mediating the effects of stimulants in humans. They use a human drug-discrimination procedure and subject-rated drug-effect questionnaires to assess drug effects in volunteers with recent histories of stimulant use. This project has important implications for validating animal models and for understanding the neuropharmacology of stimulant abuse in humans. Two projects are investigating the efficacy of novel antipsychotics as putative pharmacotherapies for stimulant dependence. The final project is attempting to elucidate to identify the behavioral mechanism that mediates the clinical effects of agonist replacement therapies for cocaine dependence. This project will also determine the efficacy of novel agonist replacement therapies. These projects could have implications for the treatment of methamphetamine and cocaine dependence..

http://www.mc.uky.edu/behavioralscience/faculty/rush.asp

email: crush2@uky.edu

Statistical Core

Robert Lorch earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1980. Upon completing his degree, he assumed a faculty position at the University of Kentucky, where he now holds the rank of Full Professor. He has taught courses in statistics and cognitive psychology throughout his tenure at the University. His research interests focus on reading comprehension and the use of information acquired from text.

http://www.uky.edu/~rlorch

email: rlorch@uky.edu

Administrative Structure

Executive Committee

Internal Advisory Committee

Statistical Core

Training Core