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Underage Drinking Research Initiative Working Group Members

Current Chairpersons

  • Vivian Faden, Ph.D.
  • Dale Hereld, Ph.D.

Current NIAAA Members

  • John Bowersox
  • Fred Donodeo, M.P.A.
  • Isabel Ellis, M.S.W.
  • Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., M.P.H.
  • Patricia Powell, Ph.D.
  • Mariela Shirley, Ph.D.
  • Aaron White, Ph.D.
  • Bridget Williams-Simmons, Ph.D.

Advisory Committee

  • Adrian Angold, M.R.C. Psych
    Duke University
  • Richard Bonnie, L.L.B.
    John S. Battle Professor of Law, Director, University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, University of Virginia School of Law
  • Jane Brown, Ph.D.
    James L. Knight Professor of Journalism/Mass Communication
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Sandra Brown, Ph.D.
    Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
  • Ronald E. Dahl, Ph.D.
    Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D.
    Founder and Director of Research, Child and Family Center, University of Oregon
  • John E. Donovan, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Cindy L. Ehlers, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
  • Kendel Ehrlich, J.D.
    Former First Lady of Maryland, Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
  • Mimi Fleury
    Founder, The Community of Concern
  • Nancy Freudenthal, J.D.
    First Lady of Wyoming, Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
  • Jay Giedd, M.D.
    Chief of the Unit on Brain Imaging, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Mark S. Goldman, Ph.D. (ex-officio member)
    Distinguished Research Professor, Director, Alcohol and Substance Use Research Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Florida
  • David Goldman, M.D.
    Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D.
    Department of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Christopher S. Martin, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Ann S. Masten, Ph.D.
    Director, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
  • Matthew McGue, Ph.D.
    Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
  • Frank Middleton, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Biomedical Sciences Program, State University of New York, Upstate
  • Stacia A. Murphy, Ph.D.
    President, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
  • Daniel Pine, Ph.D.
    Chief, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience and Chief of Child and Adolescent Research, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Sir Michael Rutter, M.D., F.R.S.
    Professor of Developmental Psychopathology Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London
  • John Schulenberg, Ph.D.
    Institute for Social Research, Center for Human Growth and Development University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
  • Kenneth J. Sher, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychological Studies University of Missouri
  • Linda Spear, Ph.D.
    Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Chair of Department of Psychology, Binghamton University/ State University of New York
  • Susan F. Tapert, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego
  • Michael Windle, Ph.D.
    Director, Center for the Advancement of Youth Health University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Robert A. Zucker, Ph.D.
    Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director, Addiction Research Center, University of Michigan
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