
NIAAA T32 Grant “Training in Etiology and Consequences of Alcohol Use Across the Lifespan”
Four postdoctoral lines to provide training in the etiology and consequences of alcohol involvement across the lifespan. The interdisciplinary training program is led by a core team of 11 RARC-affiliated faculty mentors across several academic departments and centers. Faculty mentors contribute expertise in course of alcohol use across the lifespan, the underlying biological mechanisms (e.g., stress hormones, genetics, neurobiological) and psychosocial mechanisms (e.g., psychological, inter-personal, environmental), and ensuing consequences. Specific faculty expertise in related conditions include trauma/PTSD, mental and physical health, behavioral addictions including gambling and gaming, co-use of multiple substances, stress, sleep, and women’s health. Trainees will be able to customize advanced methodologic training specific to their research training goals across the areas of genomic analyses, longitudinal and intensive longitudinal analysis, digital health, community-based research, treatment implementation, and intervention design. The training program consists of a two-year sequence of hands-on mentored research as well didactic experiences and individually tailored professional development activities.
Faculty mentors:
- Alexandria Bauer, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies (CAS) and Applied Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP)
- Sarah Brislin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS)
- Jennifer Buckman, PhD, Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health, Co-Director of the Cardiac Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) and Director of the Graduate Program in Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
- Tammy Chung, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS, and Director of the Rutgers Institute for Health’s Center for Population Behavioral Health
- Danielle Dick, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS, Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center at the Brain Health Institute
- Denise Hien, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Helen E. Chaney Chair of Alcohol Studies, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP), Director of the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies (CAS)
- Kristina Jackson, PhD Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS, Associate Director of Epidemiology, Etiology, and Prevention at RARC
- Anna Konova, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS, Co-Director of the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuro-Psychiatry
- Lia Nower PhD, Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Research in the School of Social Work, Director of the Center for Gambling Studies (CGS)
- Jessica Salvatore, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS, Director of the Genes, Environment, and Neurodevelopment in Addictions program in the Rutgers Center for Psychiatric Health and Genomics
- Carolyn Sartor, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at RWJMS and Rutgers Institute for Health’s Center for Population Behavioral Health