Associate Editor:

Susan Ramsey, PhD
Dr. Ramsey is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989 and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Indiana University in 1995. She completed a one-year clinical internship through the Indiana University School of Medicine Psychology Training Consortium and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Dr. Ramsey serves as coordinator of the seminar series for the Adult Psychopathology Track of the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium.

Dr. Ramsey’s research focuses on the confluence of substance abuse, psychiatric disorders, and medical issues. She is the principal investigator of two ongoing and one recently completed NIH-funded clinical trials. The first is a NIDA-funded study to develop and pilot test a cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent depressive episodes among methadone maintenance treatment patients undergoing antiviral treatment for hepatitis C. The second is a NIAAA-funded study to examine the efficacy of a brief alcohol intervention among depressed patients who engage in at-risk drinking. The third is a NIDA-funded study to develop and pilot test an HIV risk reduction intervention for pregnant women in drug treatment. In addition, Dr. Ramsey is a co-investigator on numerous clinical trials in the areas of substance abuse, at-risk drinking, smoking cessation, and interpersonal violence. Dr. Ramsey currently has 53 peer-reviewed publications. She has reviewed grant applications for NIAAA and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for 15 scientific journals.  

Read about the new Editor in Chief and Associate Editor here and read an interview with the Editor in Chief here.

Editorial Board:

Ana Abrantes, PhD
Assistant Professor, (Research), Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Butler Hospital and Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Genevieve M. Ames, PhD
Senior Scientist and Associate Director, Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and adj. Professor of Medical Anthropology, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA

Richard A. Brown, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Cheryl J. Cherpitel, PhD
Associate Director, National Alcohol Research Center, Senior Scientist, Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA, and Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Donald C. Cooper, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

John J Curtin, PhD (Founding Editor in Chief, Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment)
Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Donald M. Dougherty, PhD
Professor, UTHSCSA - Department of Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX, USA

Gary L Fisher, PhD
Professor, Centre for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

Paula Fite, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Linda K. Frisman, PhD
Director of Research, CT Dept of Mental Health & Addiction Services, Hartford, CT, USA

Gantt Galloway, PharmD
Scientist, Addiction Pharmacology Research Laboratory, St Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA

J.C. Garbutt, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Mark S. Goldman, PhD
Distinguished Research Professor & Director, Alcohol & Substance Use Research Institute Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Joel W. Grube, PhD
Director and Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA, USA

Clyde W. Hodge, PhD
Professor, Depts. of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Basalingappa L. Hungund, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Thomas R. Jerrells, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Yifrah Kaminer, MD, MBA
Professor of Psychiatry, Alcohol Research Center, Co-Director of Research, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

George F. Koob, PhD
Professor and Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Henry R. Kranzler, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and GCRC Program Director, University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, CT, USA

Michael J Kuhar, PhD
Candler Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief Division of Neuroscience, Yerkes Primate Center of Emory University, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Richard J. Lamb, PhD
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

Michael A. Langston, PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Christina S. Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Community Health, Brown University Medical School, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Providence, RI, USA

Horace H. Loh, PhD
Frederick Stark Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Vishal Madaan, MD, MBBS
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychaitry, Department of Psychiatry, Creighton University Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, USA

Stephen Magura, PhD, CSW
Director, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Stephen A. Maisto, PhD, ABPP
Dept. of Psychology, Center for Health and Behavior, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Joe McClernon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Director, Tobacco Research Laboratory, Investigator, Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Jane Metrik, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Community Health, Centre for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University,Providence, RI, USA

Peter M. Monti, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Todd M. Moore, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Rudolf Moos, PhD
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Care System in Palo Alto, California, USA

Christopher J. Patrick, PhD
Starke R. Hathaway Distinguished Professor Director, Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research Training Program Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Susan E. Ramsey, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Department of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Jennifer P. Read, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Andrey Ryabinin, PhD
Associate Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

Joseph Sakai, MD
Division of Substance Dependence, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO

Julie Schumacher, PhD
Associate Professor, Addiction Research and Treatment (ART) Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Kenneth J. Sher, PhD
Curators' Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Heinz Steiner, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, USA

Audra L. Stinchcomb, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, and Chief Scientific Officer, AllTranz Inc., A Specialty Pharmaceutical Company, Lexington, KY, USA

Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Director of Hepatology and Liver Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

Karen K. Szumlinski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Jeff R. Temple, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Sukumar Vijayaraghavan, PhD
Associate Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Kent E. Vrana, PhD
Elliot S. Vesell Professor, Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hummelstown, PA, USA

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Gary Wand, MD
The Alfredo Rivière and Norma Rodriguez de Rivière Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism Director, Endocrine Training Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Chudley Chad Werch, PhD
Professor and Director, Addictive & Health Behaviors Research Institute Department of Health Education & Behavior University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

George Edward Woody, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Sarah L Xavier, PhD
Director of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Michael Zawada, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA