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

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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

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

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

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

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

Internal Advisory Committee

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

Nancy Grant Harrington earned her Ph.D. in communication from Univeristy of Kentucky in 1992. Harrington joined the Department of Communication in January 1993 and joined the Center the following October as the Deputy Scientific Director. She is currently Chair in the department of Communication. Her research interests focuses primarily on persuasive message design in a health behavior change context

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

email: ngrant@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

Philip Palmgreen is Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He is widely known for his work on media campaigns and prevention of risky behavior, especially drug use. He has served as principal or co-principal investigator on a series of projects (totaling over $10 million in funding) supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health investigating the design and targeting of televised public service announcements for populations at-risk for drug abuse or HIV infection. He served for four years as a primary scientific advisor to the Office of National Drug Control Policy's $1 billion National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. He has authored over 50 research articles and book chapters, edited two books, and presented over 50 scholarly papers.

http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/COM/about/faculty/palmgreen.html

email: pcpalm1@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

Training Core

Louis Hersh is a biochemist and the Chair of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. His research interests include: the cholinergic gene locus which is unique in that it is comprised of two genes; the gene for choline acetyltransferase and the gene for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter; and the regulation of neuropeptide hormone action by peptidases.

http://www.mc.uky.edu/biochemistry/dept_personnel/faculty/hersh.asp

email: lhersh@uky.edu

Thomas Garrity received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1971 from Duke University with a specialization in medical sociology. He was appointed Instructor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky in 1970. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1981 and served as Chair of Behavioral Science from 1988 to 2000. In relation to CDART, Garrity is serving as program director of the NIDA institutional training program. Over the years he has conducted research on predictors of recovery after myocardial infarction, behavioral risk factors in coronary heart disease, including behavioral stress and its moderators. He is currently involved in studies of drug abuse, especially determinants of health status in users both incarcerated and living in the community. Stress and coping dispositions are of special interest for understanding intensification of and relapse to drug abuse.

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

email: tgarrit@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