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About the Division on Addictions
The mission of the Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate is to strengthen worldwide understanding of addiction through innovative research, education, and the global exchange of information. Our ultimate goal is to alleviate the individual, social, medical, and economic burdens caused by addictive behaviors. The Division will offer encouragement, education, and training to both the next generation of health care workers who treat addictive disorders and to scientists who study addiction. The Division will provide knowledge to public policy makers and the public alike. Finally, the Division will provide a message of compassion, tolerance, acceptance, and hope by advancing addiction science.
Division on Addictions Overview
In 1990, a Harvard Medical School planning committee recommended the creation of a Division on Addictions to direct the school's educational, medical and scientific resources toward alleviating the vast and complex array of public heath problems caused by addictive behaviors. It assigned the Division the task of coordinating research, education, training, and communication relevant to substance abuse at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and its primary affiliated teaching hospitals.
Now, the Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, is deepening and broadening both within and outside the university. The Division provides the critical links between HMS students, the clinical and research scientists at Harvard's and other medical education communities, and the lay public. Through its continuing medical education, faculty development courses and fellowship training program, the Division is having a meaningful influence on the medical community. An increasing number of faculty are turning to the Division as a resource for contacts and information and asking the Division to help coordinate their addiction-related research. Through its public forums, public education activities, middle school curriculum development and high school student internship program, the Division is reaching communities outside of Harvard.
Director:
Howard J. Shaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Harvard
Medical School;
Editor, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (PAB) (Click
here to read more...)
Staff
Research:
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Mark Albanese, M.D., Director, Addiction Services, Cambridge Health Alliance
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Jeanne Blake, Medical Reporter, Author, and affiliated faculty member, Division on Addictions
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Julia Braverman, Ph.D., Research Data Analyst, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Evelyn Chao, Ph.D., Research Data Analyst, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Gregory P. Gasic, Ph.D., Associate Director for Neuroscience & Genetics
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Heather Gray, Ph.D., Research Associate, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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John Kleschinsky, M.P.H., Research Associate
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John R. Knight, M.D., Associate Director for Medical Education
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Richard LaBrie, Ed.D., Associate Director for Data Analysis, Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School (Click here to read more...)
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Debi LaPlante, Ph.D., Associate Director, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (Click here to read more...)
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Erica Marshall, M.P.H., Research Associate
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Ryan Martin, Ph.D., Thomas N. Cummings Research Fellow
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Ingrid Maurice, Research Assistant
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Sarah Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (Click here to read more...)
Administration:
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Tasha Chandler, Administrative Research Coordinator
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Peter Emerson, MPP, Administrative Associate
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Melissa Marcarelli, M.P.A., Financial Manager
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Bill Murphy, Web, IT and Technology Manager
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Christine Thurmond, Administrative Director
Visiting Faculty, Scholars, Research Interns, and Postdoctoral Fellows:
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2009 - Simon Planzer, Attorney at Law, MLaw, M.A., Lecturer of Law, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School; Visiting Scholar, Division on Addictions
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2008 - Ryan J. Martin, Ph.D., Thomas N. Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow
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2007 - 2008 Line Gebauer Josefsen from the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
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2005 – 2006 Professor Tae Kyung Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Alcohol and Drug Addiction Center, Seoul National Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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2004 - 2006 Professor Valerie DeMarinis, Stockholm Centre for Dependency Studies/The Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden
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1998 - 2001 Richard McGowan, SJD, Professor of Economics, Boston College
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1997 - 1998 David Korn, M.D., University of Toronto
Division on Addictions Advisory Board
Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
Joseph T. Coyle, M.D.
Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Jeff Derevensky, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied/Child Psychology
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Youth Gambling Research and Treatment Clinic
McGill University
William Eadington, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Director, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming
University of Nevada, Reno
Richard I. Evans, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
University of Houston
Jan L. Jones
Senior Vice President
Communications and Government Relations
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.
Barry Kosofsky, M.D., Ph.D., chairman
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center
Robert Ladouceur, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Université Laval
Eileen Luna Firebaugh, J.D., M.P.A.
Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
University of Arizona, Tucson
Brian McKay, J.D.
Former Nevada Attorney General
Richard McGowan, S.J., D.B.A.
Associate Professor of Economics
Boston College
Lisa M. Najavits, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine
Peter E. Nathan, Ph.D.
University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of Iowa
Eric Turner
Consultant
Charles F. Wellford, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland
Ken C. Winters, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director
Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research
University of Minnesota
Harold Wynne, Ph.D.
President
Wynne Resources, Ltd.
Past Members
Mark Appelbaum, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor
Professor of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
Herbert D. Kleber, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
David C. Lewis, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Brown University
Project Director
Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy