Research Affilates

Beth Angell, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is Associate Professor of social work at the School of Social Work and a faculty affiliate in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers. Her research concerns the community treatment of individuals with serious mental illness, particularly in assertive community treatment and intensive case management models.

(732) 932-8003 ext: 10 angell@ssw.rutgers.edu
Chris Bruzios, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is Director of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s Center for Survey Research at Rutgers University. Dr. Bruzios’ research focuses on major long-term data collection projects, mostly in the fields of health and education. Among his research projects, he has worked with the Department of Education in conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Study.

(732) 932-1900 ext: 204 bruzios@rci.rutgers.edu
Madhabi Chatterji, Ph.D. (Teachers College – Columbia University), is Associate Professor of measurement, evaluation, and education at Teachers College. Dr. Chatterji’s broad research interests include designing classroom- and school-based assessment systems, development and validation of construct measures with classical and Rasch measurement methods, evaluating standards-based educational reforms, and small- and large-scale interventions with systemic models.

(212) 678-3357 mb1434@columbia.edu
Joan Cook, Ph.D. (New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia Medical School), is an Assistant Professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical School. Dr. Cook specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress. She has numerous publications in the geropsychology and traumatic stress fields. She is currently the principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health career development award examining psychotherapy dissemination to community clinicians, as well as the co-principal investigator on a Veterans Affairs’ grant examining the efficacy of a new psychotherapy for combat-related nightmares.

(212) 543-5241 jc2676@columbia.edu
Robert E. Drake, M.D., Ph.D. (Dartmouth College), is the Andrew Thomson Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and the Director of the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He has been at Dartmouth for 22 years and is currently Vice Chair and Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He works as a community mental health doctor and researcher. His research focuses on co-occurring disorders, vocational rehabilitation, health services research, and evidence-based practices. He has written 15 books and more than 350 papers.

(603) 448-0126 Robert.E.Drake@Dartmouth.edu
Ernest Drucker, Ph.D. (Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine), is Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health, Family and Social Medicine, and Psychiatry and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York. His research and writing examines AIDS, drug use, human rights, and public health policy in the United States and abroad. Dr. Drucker was founder and director (from 1970 to 1990) of a patient addiction treatment program in the Bronx.

(718) 920-4766 drucker@aecom.yu.edu
Sue Estroff, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), is Professor of anthropology, psychiatry, and social medicine at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is primarily interested in sociocultural forces that influence the biographical experiences of persons with disabling chronic illnesses. The study of persons with serious mental illness has occupied most of her research career, and while she specializes in qualitative methods, increasingly she is combining them with quantitative analysis techniques.

(919) 843-8076 sue_estroff@med.unc.edu
Christopher Frueh, Ph.D. (University of Hawaii at Hilo), is Professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii, at Hilo. His research has culminated in more than 100 scientific publications. Dr. Frueh’s research interests focus on trauma and the development and testing of interventions that respond to trauma experienced by people with mental illness and co-occurring substance use problems and war veterans. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress, a member of the editorial boards of three other journals, and regularly serves on national study sections to review federal grant applications.

(808) 933-3315 frueh@hawaii.edu
Albert Grudzinskas, J.D. (University of Massachusetts Medical School), is Associate Professor of psychiatry in law and a coordinator for legal studies of the Law and Psychiatry Program as well as the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He served as an Assistant General Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. His research interests include mental health issues in criminal trial practice, expert testimony, involuntary commitment, protection of human subjects, and substance abuse.

(732) 445-5301 Albert.GrudzinskasJr@umassmed.edu
Donald Hoover, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is Professor of statistics and a faculty member of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. His theoretical work has focused on longitudinal analysis, cluster randomization, multiple comparisons, and competing risks. Dr. Hoover's applied research has covered modeling/analysis of longitudinal data on disease and behavior in large observational studies and clinical trials.

(732) 445-5301 drhoover@stat.rutgers.edu
Nancy Jacobs, Ph.D. (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York), is Executive Director at the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Dr. Jacobs is interested in criminal justice interventions, especially as they relate to those with substance abuse and mental health problems.

(212) 237-8620 njacobs@jjay.cuny.edu
Arthur Lurigio, Ph.D. (Loyola University Chicago), is Professor of criminal justice and a member of the graduate faculty at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Lurigio's research is primarily in the areas of offender drug abuse and dependence problems, mental disorders and crime, community corrections, criminal victimization, and victim services. His other research interests include probation programs, community crime prevention, monetary and intermediate sanctions, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS among correctional populations.

(773) 508-3303 alurigi@luc.edu
Steven Marcus, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), is Research Associate Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the delivery, quality, cost, and availability of medical services for persons with serious mental disorders. He recently received a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the cause and prevention of medical errors that occur in the care of patients with serious mental illness.

(215) 573-7941 marcuss@pobox.upenn.edu
Shadd Maruna, Ph.D. (Queen's University Belfast), is a Reader in criminology and law at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the process of self-change for individuals who are caught up in patterns of serious criminal behavior. His book, Making Good: How Ex-convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives (American Psychological Association Books, 2001) was awarded the American Society of Criminology's Michael J Hindelang Award.

(+44) 028 9097 3400 s.maruna@qub.ac.uk
Candace McCoy, J.D., Ph.D. (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York), is Professor and a legal expert in court processing at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research specialization is plea bargaining, prosecution, and sentencing. She has also published on topics related to policing and criminal justice ethics. Dr. McCoy recently completed an evaluation of New Jersey's implementation of a "Truth in Sentencing" law, which requires serious felons to serve 85 percent of the sentences announced, effectively ending parole.

(212) 484-1135 cmccoy@jjay.cuny.edu
Gregory J. McHugo, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College), is an experimental psychologist, evaluation methodologist, and Associate Professor of community and family medicine and of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. Since coming to the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) in 1990, he has been involved in design, implementation, and analysis of large-scale, randomized controlled trials to evaluate treatment and rehabilitation programs for people with severe mental illness. In partnership with Dr. Robert Drake, also a Center research affiliate, Dr. McHugo has conducted studies of dual diagnosis, supported employment, homelessness, and trauma among people with severe mental illness. He is the chief methodologist for the National Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Project, which is studying the implementation of five evidence-based practices for people with severe mental illness in more than 50 community mental health centers in eight states.

(603) 448-0263 Gregory J.McHugo@dartmouth.edu
Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts-Boston), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts- Boston. Her research interests include the intersection between public health and policing, with an emphasis on examining interactions between the police and people with mental illness, on women and policing, and on understanding the factors that influence overall community well being. She was a Presidential Management Fellow with the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services, where her work focused on police responses to domestic violence and people with mental illnesses.

(617) 287-6268 melissa.morabito@umb.edu
Robert Morgan, Ph.D. (Texas Technology University), is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Counseling Psychology program at Texas Technology University. Dr. Morgan's research interests are in correctional mental health, specifically treatment of mentally disordered offenders, and professional development/training issues. His research is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Morgan was the 2003 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award presented by Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) of the American Psychological Association. He also received the 2006 Outstanding Contribution to Science Award presented by the Texas Psychological Association.

(806) 742-3711 ext: 231 robert.morgan@ttu.edu
Kim Mueser, Ph.D. (Dartmouth College), is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Mueser's clinical and research interests include the psychosocial treatment of severe mental illnesses, co-morbid substance misuse and psychosis, posttraumatic stress disorder, as well the development and evaluation of rehabilitation approaches for people with severe mental illness.

(603) 271-5747 Kim.T.Mueser@dartmouth.edu
Susan Murphy, Ph.D. (The University of Michigan), is the H.E. Robbins Professor of Statistics and a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Murphy currently leads a network of scientists, including psychiatrists, infectious disease specialists, computer scientists, engineers and statisticians, who are working to identify and solve the methodological problems arising in the construction of adaptive treatment strategies. In particular, she works on experimental designs and analysis methods with the goal of constructing individually tailored treatments in substance abuse and depression.

(734) 647-3684 samurphy@umich.edu
Lisa Najavits, Ph.D. (Boston University), is Professor of psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; clinical psychologist at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, and clinical associate at McLean Hospital. Her major clinical and research interests include trauma, PTSD, substance abuse, and psychotherapy outcome research.

(617) 731-1501 lnajavits@hms.harvard.edu
Mark Salzer, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania Health System), is Director and Principal Investigator of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Salzer has extensive research, training, and technical-assistance experience in the area of community integration of people with psychiatric disabilities. His research focuses on employment issues, peer-delivered services, and the role of self-help groups.

(215) 349-8483 Mark.Salzer@UPHS.UPENN.edu
Michelle Scott, M.S.W., Ph.D. (Monmouth University and Columbia University), is an Assistant Professor at Monmouth University’s School of Social Work and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has conducted research on the effects of behavioral managed care on juvenile justice involvement and the referral and treatment of adolescent alcohol problems in a large managed-care program. Her current research interests focus on adolescent suicide prevention, including school-based screening and the role of alcohol on first-time suicide attempts.

(732) 263-5428 mscott@monmouth.edu
Michele Shedlin, Ph.D. (University of Texas at El Paso), is the Charles T. & Shirley L. Leavell Professor of Health Sciences II and Senior Fellow, Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work includes support to community-based organizations, policy institutions, governmental agencies, and the private sector in program design, evaluation, teaching, and training in qualitative research methodology. Currently, she is the principal investigator of two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research projects on Hispanic immigrants and HIV risk (New York) and drug use and HIV risk (Nicaragua), and co-investigator of two NIH-funded studies of male-on-male sexual relations and HIV risk behavior.

(915) 747-7233 mshedlin@utep.edu

Jennifer Skeem, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine), is Associate Professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California. Her research is designed to inform clinical and legal decision making about individuals with mental illness. Her work focuses on understanding psychopathic personality disorder, assessing and treating violence risk, and identifying factors that influence the outcomes of probationers who are mandated to accept psychiatric treatment.

(949) 824-3782 skeem@uci.edu
Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), is Professor in the School of Social Planning and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on clinical services and service system issues related to adults with severe mental illness and their families. Specifically, she has focused on family interventions, consumer-provided services, and the intersection of criminal justice and mental health services.

(215) 898-5533 SOLOMONP@SP2.UPENN.edu
T. Howard Stone, J.D., LL.M. (The University of Texas at Tyler), is Associate Professor of bioethics at the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The University of Texas at Tyler. His most recent research and teaching focus has been in research ethics and human subject protection, correctional health, and telemedicine.

(903) 877-5422 howard.stone@uthct.edu
Thomas Ten Have, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine), is Professor of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His research interests include categorical data analysis, random effects models, informative dropout, treatment non-adherence, and designs and statistical analyses to accommodate patient preferences and adaptive treatment regimes. This methods research melds with his collaborations in psychiatry, family medicine, and addiction and disparities research, with a focus on multisite randomized and observational studies. Dr. Ten Have's research is facilitated by his roles as the Director of the Biostatistics-Data Core and co-investigator of the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Advanced Center for Intervention Services Research (ACISR) for Depression in the Aged.

(215) 573-4885 ttenhave@mail.med.upenn.edu
Amy Watson, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago), is Director of Research at the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Assistant Professor at Jane Adams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois. For the past five years, she has been the project director of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research, an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in mental illness stigma. Her research interests include examining how persons with mental illness are processed through different components of the criminal justice system, with particular emphasis on policing interventions. She is also interested in mental illness stigma as a barrier to service access and recovery for adolescents and adults, including those involved in the criminal justice system.

(312) 996-0039 acwatson@uic.edu
Marc Weiner, Ph.D., J.D., (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is the Associate Director of the Center for Survey Research at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Previously, Weiner served as Project Director for the Campus Life in America Student Survey, a Ford Foundation- funded multimode project of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University (2004 to 2006). He also served as Assistant Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center from 2001 to 2003. He is currently the principal investigator of a social capital community survey of central New Jersey.

((732) 932-1900 ext: 217 mdweiner@rci.rutgers.edu
Lyna Wiggins, Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is Associate Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on planning methods and computer applications in planning, particularly urban Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and expert systems. Dr. Wiggins has also conducted a number of GIS user needs assessments for local governments and state agencies in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.

(732) 932-3822 ext: 568 lyna@rci.rutgers.edu
Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., M.S.W. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. She is affiliated with the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University and the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse. Her research focuses on substance abuse, oppression, and health disparities with special emphasis on Latino and African Diaspora populations using quantitative and qualitative methods. Dr. Windsor has participated in numerous studies in Texas, Brazil, and New York.

(732) 932-7520 ext: 113 lwindsor@ssw.rutgers.edu

Irene Wong, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), is Associate Professor in the School of Social Planning and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on social policy, homelessness prevention, and poverty research. Dr. Wong is a member of the UPenn Collaborative, a five-year Rehabilitation Research & Training Center (RRTC) initiative promoting community integration of individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The Collaborative is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and has the goal of leading the field in bringing community integration research into practice.

(215) 898-5505 iwong@sp2.upenn.edu