SUBSTANCE ABUSE RESEARCH CENTER
NIDA TRAINING FACULTY
Core Faculty (NIDA Training Grant)
Frederic C. Blow PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Senior Associate
Research Scientist, Transportation Research Institute,
Medical School
Campus phone: 734-998-7952; FAX: 734-998-7994;
E-Mail: fredblow@umich.edu
Carol J. Boyd PhD RN
Professor, Nursing, Women's Studies, and Director of
the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Campus phone: 734-764-9537 FAX: 734-764-9533;
E-Mail: caroboyd@umich.edu
Website: www.umich.edu/~irwg/
Jorge Delva PhD
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Campus phone: 734-936-3898; FAX: 734-763-3372
E-Mail: jdelva@umich.edu
Website: www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profilejdelva.html
Edward F. Domino MD
Emiritus Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-764-9115; FAX: 734-763-4450;
E-Mail: efdabcde@umich.edu
Website: sitemaker.umich.edu/domino
Larry M. Gant PhD
Professor, , School of Social Work
Campus phone: 734-763-5990; FAX: 734-763-3372;
E-Mail: lmgant@umich.edu
Website: www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profilelmgant.html
Margaret E. Gnegy PhD
Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Department of
Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-763-5358; FAX: 734-763-4450;
E-Mail: pgnegy@umich.edu
Website: sitemaker.umich.edu/pgnegy
Areas of interest/key words: Alcohol misuse among
older adults, alcohol-related injury and comorbidity of
psychiatric illness in alcoholics, methodological and
statistical issues.
Areas of interest/key words: Gender, women’s
substance use, college populations, new technologies for
collecting drug data.
Areas of interest/key words: Epidemiology of substance
use, cross-cultural and international research on the
etiology of substance use.
Areas of interest/key words: Phencyclidine,
hallucinogens, substance abuse, nicotine abuse, alcohol
abuse.
Areas of interest/key words: Program evaluation in
human services and mental health organizations,
HIV/AIDS intervention and research, and US drug
policy analysis.
Areas of interest/key words: Role of protein kinases in
amphetamine-induced dopamine release in rat striatumrole of calmodulin and calmodulin dependent activities
in enhanced dopamine release in amphetaminesensitized animals.
Chris-Ellyn Johanson PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 313-993-1380 FAX: 313-993-1372;
E-Mail: cjohans@med.wayne.edu
Lloyd D. Johnston PhD
Distinguished Research Scientist/Research Professor,
Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Campus phone: 734-763-5043; FAX: 734-936-0043;
E-Mail: lloydj@isr.umich.edu
Website: www.monitoringtheguture.org,
www.yesresearch.org
Sean Esteban McCabe PhD, MSW
Interim Director and Assistant Research Scientist,
Substance Abuse Research Center
Campus phone: 734-998-6500; FAX: 734-998-6508;
E-Mail: plius@umich.edu
Website: www.umich.edu/~umsarc
Ovide F. Pomerleau PhD
Director and Professor, Behavioral Medicine
Program/Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-998-6430; FAX: 734-998-6443;
E-Mail: ofpom@umich.edu
Website: www.med.umich.edu/niclab/
Terry E. Robinson PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of
Literature, Science and Arts
Campus phone: 734-763-4361; FAX: 734-763-7480;
E-Mail: ter@umich.edu
Charles R. Schuster PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences,
Wayne State University
Campus phone: 313-993-3406; FAX: 313-993-1372;
E-Mail: cschust@med.wayne.edu
Jean T. Shope PhD
Research Professor, UM Transportation Research
Insitute and Health Behavior/Health Education, SPH
Campus phone: 734-763-2466; FAX: 734-936-1076;
E-Mail: jshope@umich.edu
Website: www.umtri.umich.edu
John Traynor PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
Areas of interest/key words: Buprenorphine as a block
to the reinforcing, subjective and physiological effects
of hydromorphine in heroin-addicted individuals, effects
of cocaine, cocaine abstinence on sleep and mood.
Areas of interest/key words: Epidemiology, etiology,
prevention, and policy related to substance use amon
adolescents and young adults; childhood obesity; value
and lifestyles orientations; social indicators; and
international comparative studies.
Areas of interest/key words: Epidemiology of substance
use, Survey mode effects on the reporting of substance
use, and Substance use among sexual minorities.
Areas of interest/key words: Neuroregulatory
mechanisms in nicotine reinforcement; genetic
mechanisms in nicotine dependence;individual
differences in sensitivity/reactivity to nicotine; cofactors for smoking; nicotine, tobacco, smoking,
biobehavioral, behavioral treatment,
psychopharmacology.
Areas of interest/key words: Long term consequences of
drugs on brain and behavior, liability to addiction and
relapse; behavioral and neurochemical techniques to
study the effects of drugs on dopamine systems and
behavior, amphetamine, cocaine, brain, dopamine,
addiction.
Areas of interest/key words: Development of new
behavioral and medication therapies for the treatment of
tobacco, cocaine, heroin and alcohol dependence;
behavioral mechanisms underlying the addiction
process; dual diagnosis.; substance abuse treatment;
drug dependence mechanisms; dual-diagnosis.
Areas of interest/key words: Young adult at-risk
drinking and drink/driving; adolescent/young adult
problem behavior; young drivers; injury prevention.
Areas of interest/key words: Opioid and opiates.
Biochemical makers and measures of opioid tolerance
School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-647-7479; FAX: 734-764-7118;
E-Mail: jtraynor@umich.edu
Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/traynor.lab
and dependence. Identification of targates and
medications for the treatment of opiate abuse.
James H. Woods PhD
Areas of interest/key words: Behavioral and
pharmacological mechanisms of drugs of abuse,
particularly opioids and phencylidine, and their study at
the psychological and pharmacological levels, opiate
antagonists, reinforcement theory, tolerance and
dependence.; drugs, substance abuse, tolerance,
dependence, reinforcement, opioids, excitatory amino
acids, receptors, receptor theory.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and
Psychology, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-764-9133; FAX: 734-764-7118;
E-Mail: jhwoods@umich.edu
Website: sitemaker.umich.edu/woods
Marc A. Zimmerman PhD
Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health
Education, School of Public Health
Campus phone: 734-647-0224; FAX: 734-763-7379;
E-Mail: marcz@umich.edu
Jon-Kar Zubieta MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Mental Health Research
Institute/Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-763-6843; FAX: 734-936-2690;
E-Mail: zubieta@umich.edu
Robert A. Zucker PhD
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology;
Director, Substance Abuse Section, Department of
Psychiatry; Director, UM Addiction Research Center
Campus phone: 734-998-7454; FAX: 734-998-7992;
E-Mail: zuckerra@umich.edu
Areas of interest/key words: Prevention of substance
abuse especially with minority youth, psychosocial
predictors of adolescent substance abuse & its
consequences, sustance use and the adult transitional
period, adolescent resilience.
Areas of interest/key words: Effects of substances of
abuse on brain neurotransmitter systems in human
subjects. Use of PET and SPECT techniques (external
detection of radionucleides in vivo); role of cortical and
subcortical structures (amygdalae) in cravings, opioid
receptors, cocaine, craving.
Areas of interest/key words: Etiology of alcohol and
drug use disorders, co-morbidity and risk; life course
variation, neurobiology of risk and relation to behavioral
risk, and primary prevention.
Secondary Faculty (NIDA Training Grant)
Kristen Barry PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of
Psychiatry; and Associate Director, National Serious
Mental Illness Treatment Research & Evaluation Center,
Department of Veterans Affairs
Campus phone: 734-769-7100 ext. 6242;
FAX: 734-761-2617;
E-Mail: barry@umich.edu
Website: www.med.umich.edu/psych/sub/barry.htm
Kirk J. Brower MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Executive Director, Chelsea Arbor Addiction Treatment
Center
Campus phone: 734-998-74541; FAX: 734-998-7992;
E-Mail: kbrower@umich.edu
Website: www.med.umich.edu/psych/sub/brower.htm
Areas of interest/key words: Alcohol screening, brief
interventions, treatment issues, and comorbidity in
primary care settings.
Areas of interest/key words: Substance use and sleep
disturbances; biological predictors of relapse; addiction
pharmacotherapy; psychiatric effects and addictive
potential of anabolic steroids.
Barbara J. Guthrie PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion and
Risk Reduction Program, School of Nursing and
Women’s Studies
Campus phone: 734-615-8490; FAX: 734-647-1419;
E-Mail: bguthrie@umich.edu
Website:
www.nursing.umich.edu/faculty/guthrie_barbara.html
Peter D. Jacobson JD MPH
Professor of Health Law and Policy
HMP, School of Public Health
Campus phone: 734-936-0928; FAX: 734-764-4338;
E-Mail: pdj@umich.edu
Website: http://www.sph.umich.edu/~pdj/
Karley Y. Little MD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry/VA
Medical Center, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-761-7926; FAX: 734-769-7410;
E-Mail: kylittle@umich.edu
Carol J. Loveland-Cherry PhD
Executive Associate Dean and Professor, Academic
Affairs, School of Nursing
Campus phone: 734-764-7188; FAX: 734-647-1419;
E-Mail: loveland@umich.edu
Website: www.nursing.umich.edu/faculty/lovelandcherry_carol.html
Ronald F. Maio DO
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine/Department
of Surgery, School of Medicine
Campus phone: 734-936-6284; FAX: 734-936-9414;
E-Mail: ronmaio@umich.edu
Carol T. Mowbray PhD
Professor, School of Social Work
Campus phone: 734-763-6578; FAX: 734-763-1062;
E-Mail: cmowbray@umich.edu
Website: www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profilecmowbray.html
Patrick M. O'Malley PhD
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute
for Social Research
Campus phone: 734-763-5043; FAX: 734-936-0043;
E-Mail: pomalley@umich.edu
Website: www.monitoringthefuture.org
Areas of interest/key words: Female adolescents (8-18)
and gender-specific web-based substance assessment for
girls within the juvenile justice system.
Areas of interest/key words: Tobacco control
enforcement and implementation-health care system
response to maternal substance use; tobacco, health care
law, maternal substance use.
Areas of interest/key words: Function and regulation of
monoamine transporters; effects of stimulants and
antidepressants on monoamine neurons; cocaine,
antidepressants, transporters, plasticity, neurochemistry.
Areas of interest/key words: Antecedents of adolescent
alcohol use and abuse
Areas of interest/key words: Effect of alcohol and other
drugs on the body's response to injury; identifying and
treating individuals whose use of alcohol and other
drugs puts them at risk for injury as well as non-injury
medical problems.
Areas of interest/key words: Co-morbidity of mental
illness and substance abuse disorders.
Areas of interest/key words: Survey research methods;
design and data analysis; multivariate analysis of
longitudinal data; causes and consequences of substance
abuse.
Cynthia S. Pomerleau PhD
Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director,
Nicotine Research Laboratory
Campus phone: 734-998-6435; FAX: 734-998-6443;
E-Mail: cspom@umich.edu
Website: www.med.umich.edu/niclab/
Beth Glover Reed PhD
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Campus phone: 734-763-5958; FAX: 734-763-3372 ;
E-Mail: bgr@umich.edu
Website: www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-bgr.html
John E. Schulenberg PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology; and Research
Professor and Associate Director, Survey Research
Centrer, Institute for Social Research
Campus phone: 734-763-5043; FAX: 734-936-0043;
E-Mail: schulenb@umich.edu
Website: http://monitoringthefuture.org/
Areas of interest/key words: Mechanisms underlying
nicotine use in women; cofactors for smoking
(depression, disordered eating, ADHD); and tolerance
and sensitivity to nicotine.
Areas of interest/key words: Race and gender issues in
intervening with problems of alcohol and other drug
abuse; models for service delivery and prevention;
barriers to knowledge utilization.
Areas of interest/key words: Correspondence between
substance use and developmental transitions during
adolescence and young adulthood; developmental
interventions aimed at preventing the escalation of
alcohol misuse during adolescence; multivariate analysis
of longitudinal data.