Dr. Lisa Rey Thomas is a Research Scientist at the
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Dr. Thomas received a degree in clinical
psychology from the University of Washington, and completed her clinical
internship at the VA Medical Center at American Lake (Tacoma). She
is past-chair of the American
Psychological Association's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs
(CEMA), as well as Chair of the APA's
Division 18, Psychologists in Indian Country Section, and has
recently been involved in the People
Awakening Project, an NIAAA-funded project at the University of
Alaska – Fairbanks studying Alaska Native pathways to sobriety. Dr. Thomas is also Treasurer of the Native Research Network. At
ADAI, she is Co-Investigator of the Healing
of the Canoe project, working with Drs. Dennis Donovan and Heather
Lonczak, and PI of the Tribal Healing and Wellness Conference funded by NIH/NCMHD.
Current Projects:
- Tribal Healing and Wellness Conference. The aim
of this conference-planning project is to organize a one-and-a-half
day conference for May 2008 that would bring together representatives
from the 29 federally recognized tribes, other American Indian and
Alaska Native (AIAN) agencies, and urban AIAN communities. A post-conference
report will document identified health issues of the Tribal communities,
evidence-based approaches currently in use, and other interventions
that appear promising but need further evaluation. This report will
then set the agenda for future conferences, supporting more collaborative,
community-based research addressing identified areas of health disparity
in the AIAN community. more...
- The Healing of the Canoe. This three-year project will plan,
implement, and evaluate a community-based and culturally-based intervention
aimed at connecting Native American youth to their cutlural heritage,
as a means to reduce substance abuse and other health problems. The
project will be highly collaborative with the Suquamish Tribe, a reservation
community in the Pacific Northwest. more...
- National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network - Washington Node. A multisite network of regional research and training centers working in conjunction with community-based treatment programs to implement and evaluate behavioral and pharmacological interventions with demonstrated efficacy in community-based programs. (Dr. Thomas works with the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, one of the community treatment programs participating in the Washington Node of the CTN.) more...
View all ADAI projects Dr. Thomas has participated in, both current and completed.
Recent
and Representative Publications:
- Mohatt GV, Rasmus SM, Thomas LR, Allen J, Hazel K, Marlatt GA.
Risk, resilience, and natural recovery: A model of recovery from
alcohol abuse for Alaska Natives. Addiction 2007 103:205-215 (Pubmed
abstract) (THO 07-01)
- Allen J, Mohatt GV, Rasmus SM, Hazel K, Thomas LR, Lindley S ,
People Awakening Team. The tools to understand: Community as co-researcher
on culture-specific protective factors for Alaska Natives. Journal
of Prevention and Intervention in the Community 2006; 32(1&2).
(Pubmed
abstract) (THO 06-02)
- Journeys of the Circle Project, Seattle Indian Health Board ;
Addictive Behaviors Research Center, Department of Psychology, University
of Washington. Canoe Journey - Life's Journey: A Life Skills Manual
For Native Adolescents. Seattle : University of Washington, Addictive
Behaviors Research Center, 2005. (THO 06-01)
- Mohatt GV, Rasmus SM, Thomas LR, Allen J, Hazel K, Hensel C. "Tied
together like a woven hat" : Protective pathways to Alaska
Native sobriety. Harm Reduction Journal 2004; 1(10).
(THO 04-01) (Full
text)
- Mohatt GV, Thomas LR, People Awakening Team. Dilemmas in ethnical
research among Alaska Natives: A case example. In: Trimble JE and
Fisher CB (eds.). The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural
Populations and Communities. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications,
Inc., 2006, pp. 93-115. (THO 06-01)
View
more publications by Dr. Thomas.
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