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5200 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-232 0280
 Major research interest is the etiology of substance
abuse over the life span, and preventive programming that
will change course. An ongoing community based prospective
high risk family study of initially preschool age children
and their substance abusing parents, currently 23 years in
process, provides the core database for this work.
Seven spin off projects using the core longitudinal sample
focus on the relationship of macrolevel community and
neighborhood influences to individual behavior, and the
interplay between genetic vulnerability, brain function,
behavior, socialization structure, and life phase task
variation in producing troubled outcomes. Current teaching
involves a field based research methods course for undergraduates,
training of postdoctoral fellows and post-residency physicians
in advanced research methods, and lecturing to medical school
residents and medical students. A NIDA/Fogarty International
Center funded program supports collaboration with the Institute
of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland to provide
substance abuse research infrastructure development in Poland,
Ukraine, Slovakia and Latvia.
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