Mary Larimer, Ph.D.
larimer@uw.edu
Professor, Psychiatry
Director, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors (CSHRB)
Associate Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center (ABRC)
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 312
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-3513
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Mary Larimer, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct
Professor of Psychology, Associate Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center,
and Director of the Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors, University of
Washington. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UW, and has been a
member of the faculty since 1995. Dr. Larimer's research and clinical interests include
1) prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug problems among adolescents and
young adults (with a particular focus on college drinking prevention), 2) prediction of
initiation of drinking and trajectories of alcohol and substance use during emerging
adulthood, 3) co-morbidity of substance use with depression, suicide, trauma, PTSD,
disordered eating, and gambling problems, 4) evaluation of housing and treatment
programs for chronically homeless and incarcerated individuals and 5) dissemination
of evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches into clinical, school, and
work-site settings. She has published more than 100 articles and book chapters on
these topics.
David Atkins, Ph.D.
datkins@uw.edu
Research Associate Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 334
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 616-3879
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Dave Atkins, Ph.D., is Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington. Dr. Atkins received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UW in 2003 and returned to UW as a faculty member in 2008. His primary interests are in applied statistics and methodology, and Dr. Atkins serves as a quantitative methodologist for theCenter for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors and the Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness, and Medically Vulnerable Populations (Director: Roy-Byrne; www.chammp.org). In addition to his quantitative interests and teaching, Dr. Atkins also has interests in text-mining and speech signal processing as applied to psychotherapy and research on couple therapy and infidelity.
Sarah Bowen, Ph.D.
swbowen@uw.edu
Acting Assistant Instructor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 322
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 685-2995
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Seema Clifasefi, Ph.D.
seemac@uw.edu
Acting Assistant Instructor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 322
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-3452
Irene Geisner, Ph.D.
geisner@uw.edu
Acting Instructor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 315
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 616-2367
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Dr. Geisner is a clinical psychologist and Acting Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at the UW. She received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Washington in 2008. She has received a grant from NIAAA to develop and study the effectiveness of a personalized web-based feedback intervention for college students with high risk drinking and depressed mood. She is a co-investigator on a multi-site NIAAA grant examining parent-child communication about college drinking. Other research has focused on college student health and risk behaviors including gambling, event specific prevention (21st birthday and Spring Break drinking), and athletes. She has published over a dozen journal articles, presented posters and presentations at national conferences, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer on several journals. She conducts clinical supervision with psychiatry residents and psychology students at Outpatient Psychiatry and the UW's Psychological Services and Training Clinic. Irene provides therapy to patients with a wide range of presenting problems at the UW's Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, and has done clinical group and individual supervision on studies utilizing Motivational Interviewing in delivering BASICS.
Debra Kaysen, Ph.D.
dkaysen@uw.edu
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 338
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 221-4657
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Dr. Kaysen is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences Department at the UW. She received her doctorate in
psychology from the University of Missouri in 2003. She has received grants from
NIAAA and the Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation to research the
effects of traumatic events on women, and the interaction between trauma exposure,
PTSD, and alcohol problems. Other research has focused on the development of
post-trauma symptomatology. She has published over 30 journal articles and was
awarded the New Investigator Award from the Women's SIG of the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and an early Career poster award from Division
50 of the American Psychological Association and NIAAA. She conducts clinical
supervision with psychiatry residents and psychology interns at Outpatient Psychiatry
and social workers at Harborview Sexual Assault Center. Dr. Kaysen is a trainer for a
large scale Veterans Administration dissemination project in the implementation of
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD for military veterans. As such she conducts
nationwide trainings in the use of Cognitive Processing Therapy.
Jason Kilmer, Ph.D.
jkilmer@uw.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 320
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 685-4512
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Dr. Jason Kilmer received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington in 1997, and currently works at the University of Washington in both a research capacity and a student affairs capacity. He is a Research Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, continuing a 20-year affiliation with colleagues at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center and the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors through his role as an investigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol and drug use by college students. He is also the Assistant Director of Health and Wellness for Alcohol and Other Drug Education in the Division of Student Life, working with different areas across campus (including health, counseling, Greek life, residence life, and athletics) to increase student access to evidene-based approaches. Dr Kilmer serves as the chair of the Washington State College Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention. He also maintains an appointment as the Substance Abuse Prevention Program Coordinator for Saint Martin's University. For ten years, he worked as an Addictive Behaviors Specialist in the Counseling Center at The Evergreen State College. Dr. Kilmer was the 2004 recipient of the Outstanding Mid-Level Professional Award for Region V of NASPA, was named a Research Fellow in 2005 by MOST of Us at Montana State University, and was named a Senior Scholar in Prevention in 2006 by Outside the Classroom.
Christine Lee, Ph.D.
leecm@uw.edu
Research Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Director, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors (CSHRB)
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 333
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-6574
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Christine Lee, Ph.D. is a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at the University of Washington and a core member of the Center of the Study for Health and Risk Behaviors. She received her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Arizona, and has been a member of the faculty since 2004. Trained as a life-span developmental researcher, Dr. Lee has been developing a portfolio of work focused on bridging developmental theory with applied prevention and intervention techniques for addressing high-risk behaviors during the transition to adulthood. Dr. Lee's research focuses on answering questions regarding what motivates young adults to engage in high-risk behaviors such as alcohol and marijuana use; how life events and circumstances influence variation in risk of use and consequences over time; whether and how individuals learn from their prior experiences to avoid future harmful consequences; how developmental transitions and timing of events influence use and intervention; and the development of efficacious prevention and intervention efforts. Dr. Lee has published more than 60 articles and book chapters on these topics and has received several grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Melissa Lewis, Ph.D.
lewisma@uw.edu
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 314
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 221-6932
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Melissa A. Lewis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Lewis received her doctorate in Health and Social Psychology from North Dakota State University in 2005 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington’s Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors in 2007. Dr. Lewis has been a member of the faculty at the University of Washington since 2007. Dr. Lewis’ substantive research interests lie in examining social psychological principles in broadly defined health-related behaviors. She studies social and motivational mechanisms involved in etiology and prevention of addictive and high-risk behaviors (e.g., drinking, risky sexual behavior). She has particular expertise in personalized feedback interventions aimed at reducing drinking and related risky sexual behavior. Mechanisms in which she is interested include normative perceptions and protective behavioral strategies. Dr. Lewis also explores who might be more prone to take part in high-risk health behaviors, such as those who are more sensitive to social pressures. A fundamental assumption of her research is that because social pressures and influences have been consistently and strongly implicated in risky health behaviors, especially among young adults, interventions aiming to reduce susceptibility to these influences hold particular promise.
Kristen Lindgren, Ph.D.
kpl9716@uw.edu
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 338
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 685-8083
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Dr. Kristen P. Lindgren is an assistant professor and licensed clinical psychologist in
the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UW in 2006 and returned to UW
as a faculty member in 2010. Her research interests include addictions, posttraumatic
stress disorder, sexuality, and relationships. Her work focuses on identifying and
retraining implicit (i.e., non-conscious or automatic) cognitive processes that
contribute to the development and maintenance of maladaptive behavior and
psychopathology. Support for her work has been provided by the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the University of Washington’s Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Institute. Dr. Lindgren also serves as a consultant for dissemination
projects aimed at training community-based mental health workers in Cognitive
Processing Therapy in Washington State, Texas, and Iraq.
Dana Litt, Ph.D.
dlitt@uw.edu
Acting Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 319
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-5689
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Dana Litt, Ph.D., is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Litt received her doctorate in Applied Social Psychology from The George Washington University in 2010 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington’s Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors in 2011. Dr. Litt’s primary research interests lie in examining social psychological principles in broadly defined health-related risk behaviors. Her research addresses questions related to the utility of including socially-based variables in prevention programming, particularly with respect to social images and social norms. Her current research extends the literature by utilizing a model of health risk behavior, The Prototype Willingness Model, which has not previously been used in interventions focused on young adult alcohol use. Critical questions include: whether the inclusion of such variables improve the efficacy of existing prevention programs and if socially-based interventions will work universally or whether they depend on a person’s level of experience with alcohol use. The answers to these questions have important implications for refining theories and developing new clinical interventions related to alcohol use and abuse.
Ty Lostutter, Ph.D.
tylost@uw.edu
Acting Instructor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 336
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-0473
Myra Parker, Ph.D.
myrap@uw.edu
Acting Instructor, Psychiatry
1100 NE 45th, Suite 300, Office 319
Box 354944 Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 616-5887
