Faculty & Staff

Visiting Scholars are senior academics and distinguished visitors who hold a doctoral degree or the foreign equivalent. They visit the Division for relatively short periods, usually no longer than a year, to collaborate on research projects and publications with Division scholars. Below is a list of recent scholars.

2012

Guo Song, PhD
Head of Research, National Addictions Management Service/Addiction Medicine Department, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Lecturer, Yang Lu Ling Medical School, National University of Singapore

2011

Tuuli Lahti, PhD
Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

2010

Heather Wardle
Research Director, Health and Wellbeing Group, National Centre for Social Research
Project Director, British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

2009

Simon Planzer, Attorney at Law, MLaw, MA
Lecturer of Law, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School

2008-2010

Ryan J. Martin, PhD
Thomas N. Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2006

Professor Tae Kyung Lee, MD, PhD
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Center, Seoul National Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

2004-2006

Professor Valerie DeMarinis
Stockholm Centre for Dependency Studies/The Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden

1998-2001

Richard McGowan, SJ
Professor of Economics, Boston College

1997-1998

David Korn, MD
University of Toronto

The Division’s Young Scholars program is open to undergraduate students who currently are studying at a university or a four-year college. The Young Scholar program provides students the opportunity to conduct supervised addiction-related research. Recent Young Scholars are listed below.

2013

Melanie Mitchell
Undergraduate Summer Research Mentee, Bridgewater State University

2012

Than Finan
Young Scholar, Williams College

2012

Elisha Thapa
University of Massachusetts Amherst

2010-2011

Aaron Lim
Young Scholar, Williams College

2009

Katerina Belkin
Young Scholar, Williams College

2009

Theresa Kelliher
Young Scholar, Boston University

2007-2008

Line Gebauer Josefsen
Young Scholar, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

2006

Andrew Boudreau
Young Scholar, Johns Hopkins University

Current Members

Linda B. Cottler, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine

Joseph T. Coyle, MD
Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Jeff Derevensky, PhD
Professor of Applied/Child Psychology
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Youth Gambling Research and Treatment Clinic
McGill University

Barry Kosofsky, MD, PhD, Chairman
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

Robert Ladouceur, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Université Laval

Eileen Luna Firebaugh, JD, MPA
Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
University of Arizona, Tucson

Brian McKay, JD
Former Nevada Attorney General

Richard McGowan, SJ, DBA
Associate Professor of Economics
Boston College

Lisa M. Najavits, PhD
Director, Treatment Innovations
Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine

Eric Turner
Consultant

Charles F. Wellford, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland

Ken C. Winters, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director
Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research
University of Minnesota

Harold Wynne, PhD
President
Wynne Resources, Ltd.

Past Members

Mark Appelbaum, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor
Professor of Psychology
University of California, San Diego

Herbert D. Kleber, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

David C. Lewis, MD
Professor of Medicine
Brown University
Project Director
Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy

Visiting Scholars are senior academics and distinguished visitors who hold a doctoral degree or the foreign equivalent. They visit the Division for relatively short periods, usually no longer than a year, to collaborate on research projects and publications with Division scholars. Below is a list of recent scholars.

2012

Guo Song, PhD
Head of Research, National Addictions Management Service/Addiction Medicine Department, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Lecturer, Yang Lu Ling Medical School, National University of Singapore

2011

Tuuli Lahti, PhD
Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

2010

Heather Wardle
Research Director, Health and Wellbeing Group, National Centre for Social Research
Project Director, British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

2009

Simon Planzer, Attorney at Law, MLaw, MA
Lecturer of Law, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School

2008-2010

Ryan J. Martin, PhD
Thomas N. Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2006

Professor Tae Kyung Lee, MD, PhD
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Center, Seoul National Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

2004-2006

Professor Valerie DeMarinis
Stockholm Centre for Dependency Studies/The Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden

1998-2001

Richard McGowan, SJ
Professor of Economics, Boston College

1997-1998

David Korn, MD
University of Toronto

The Division’s Young Scholars program is open to undergraduate students who currently are studying at a university or a four-year college. The Young Scholar program provides students the opportunity to conduct supervised addiction-related research. Recent Young Scholars are listed below.

2013

Melanie Mitchell
Undergraduate Summer Research Mentee, Bridgewater State University

2012

Than Finan
Young Scholar, Williams College

2012

Elisha Thapa
University of Massachusetts Amherst

2010-2011

Aaron Lim
Young Scholar, Williams College

2009

Katerina Belkin
Young Scholar, Williams College

2009

Theresa Kelliher
Young Scholar, Boston University

2007-2008

Line Gebauer Josefsen
Young Scholar, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

2006

Andrew Boudreau
Young Scholar, Johns Hopkins University

Current Members

Linda B. Cottler, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine

Joseph T. Coyle, MD
Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Jeff Derevensky, PhD
Professor of Applied/Child Psychology
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Youth Gambling Research and Treatment Clinic
McGill University

Barry Kosofsky, MD, PhD, Chairman
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

Robert Ladouceur, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Université Laval

Eileen Luna Firebaugh, JD, MPA
Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
University of Arizona, Tucson

Brian McKay, JD
Former Nevada Attorney General

Richard McGowan, SJ, DBA
Associate Professor of Economics
Boston College

Lisa M. Najavits, PhD
Director, Treatment Innovations
Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine

Eric Turner
Consultant

Charles F. Wellford, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland

Ken C. Winters, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director
Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research
University of Minnesota

Harold Wynne, PhD
President
Wynne Resources, Ltd.

Past Members

Mark Appelbaum, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor
Professor of Psychology
University of California, San Diego

Herbert D. Kleber, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

David C. Lewis, MD
Professor of Medicine
Brown University
Project Director
Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy