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FACULTY BIOSKETCHES
Robert J. Pandina, (Ph.D., Univ. of Vermont) is a Professor of
Psychology and Director of the Center of Alcohol Studies. He has been a faculty member since 1973 and is President of Alcohol
Research Documentation, Inc., the corporation that publishes the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Dr. Pandina serves as the
Director of the Center's Health and Human Development Laboratory, which is conducting a longitudinal study of alcohol and drug
using behavior, its etiology, and its consequences. He has received grants from several sources including the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the New Jersey State Department of Health. His research
interests include psychopharmacology and neuropsychology, experimental and clinical; alcohol and drug dependence longitudinal studies;
forensic psychology; and sports psychology. Dr. Pandina serves on several advisory and editorial boards and serves as a Scholar in
Residence at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Phone: (732) 445-2518 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: rpandina@rci.rutgers.edu
Marsha E. Bates, (Ph.D., Rutgers) is a Research
Professor of Psychology, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is an Associate
Editor of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Research
areas include neurocognitive models of addictions treatment outcome, neuropsychological and cognitive assessment in normal and
psychiatric populations, alcohol challenge effects on implicit and explicit memory, the interrelation of memory and
psychophysiological arousal at varying developmental stages of drug exposure, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and
neuropsychological assessment of children diagnosed with autism spectrum and bipolar disorders and normally developing children.
Dr. Bates is the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Center of Alcohol Studies. The mission of the lab is to
conduct integrated cognitive psychology and neuroscience research aimed at understanding alcohol and other drug effects in humans
and advancing the treatment of addictive behaviors. Training is provided for undergraduate and graduate students in basic and
applied human neuroscience research.
Phone: (732) 445-3559 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: mebates@rci.rutgers.edu
Patricia Buckendahl, (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) is an Assistant Research
Professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies. She joined the Neuropharmacology Research Group in 2000. Her research interests include
behavior, stress response, and alcohol consumption profile of osteocalcin knockout mice; possible interaction of osteocalcin with
the sympathetic nervous system during stress response; effects of various hormones (especially those involved in stress responses)
and dietary conditions (including alcohol consumption) on bone biochemistry and circulating levels of osteocalcin; function of
osteocalcin in relation to biochemical and mechanical properties of bone; effects of varied mechanical loading (exercise, disuse,
spaceflight, and buoyancy) on bone morphology and biochemistry.
Phone: (732) 445-3590 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: buckendp@rci.rutgers.edu
Jennifer F. Buckman, (Ph.D.,
Oregon Health & Science University) is an Assistant Research Professor at the
Center of Alcohol Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU and was a post-doctoral fellow in pharmacology
at University of Pittsburgh. Her interests include identifying risk factors for cognitive impairments in substance using populations,
the time course for cognitive recovery following treatment, and the impact of impairment on treatment outcome. She is also interested
in characterizing the genetic basis of drinking and drug taking behaviors. Her research focuses on the development of endophenotypes
(physiological or psychological traits that are intermediary to the end point of alcoholism or addiction) and the application of
non-parametric statistical tools to screen for relationships between these endophenotypes and neurobiological gene variants.
As a member of Dr. Bates’ research team, she is involved in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, where her basic
neuroscience background contributes to the efforts to understand the cognitive and behavioral effects of drugs and alcohol.
Phone: (732) 445-0793 Fax: (732)445-3500
Email: jbuckman@rci.rutgers.edu
Elizabeth E. Epstein, (Ph.D.,Univ. of
Conn) is an Associate Research Professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS), and has been at CAS since 1989. Dr. Epstein
is also a contributing faculty member of the Graduate School for Applied and Professional Psychology. She received her B.A.
in Psychology from Clark University, her M.A. in Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her Ph.D. in Clinical
Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey, and has a part-time private
practice through the Center of Alcohol Studies Consultation and Treatment Services faculty practice and also as an associate at
the Freehold Psychology Group. Dr. Epstein was Principal Investigator (PI) of a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant entitled, "Alcoholic Subtypes: A Multi site Study of Clinical Validity," was a PI on a National Institute
on Drug Abuse grant entitled, "Adapting Behavioral Marital Couples Therapy to Treat Drug Abuse", and was co-PI on an NIAAA grant
designed to test individual versus couples cognitive behavioral therapy for female alcoholics. Dr. Epstein is co-author
with Barbara McCrady of a published textbook entitled, "Addictions: A Comprehensive Guidebook." Dr. Epstein has
published in the areas of alcohol subtyping, impact of comorbid depression and other psychiatric disorders on severity and
treatment of substance abuse, classification of substance use disorders, and marital therapy for substance abusing males and
females.
Phone: (732) 445-0906 Fax: (732) 445-5944
Email: bepstein@rci.rutgers.edu
Valerie Johnson (Ph.D., Rutgers) is an
Associate Research Professor, specializing in substance use and mental health, and has been at the Center of Alcohol Studies
for more than 20 years. She is a co-investigator of the Health and Human Development Project, a longitudinal study investigating
substance use trajectories and risk and protective moderators and mediators among a community sample of adolescents and young adults. She is currently a principal investigator in the NIDA funded Rutgers Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, examining the efficacy of peer led and adult mentoring prevention programming within high schools. Dr. Johnson is a sociologist whose research interests also include the study of children from alcoholic and dysfunctional families, the documentation of long-term outcomes of diverse drug using patterns, and the evaluation of prevention/intervention programs. She has provided assistance to employers in the design of drug-free workplace initiatives and to Rutgers Sports Medicine Department in the development of educational and prevention curriculum, including the effects of substance use on athletic performance.
Phone: (732) 445-2424 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: vjohnson@rci.rutgers.edu
Erich Labouvie, (Ph.D.,W. Virginia)
is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Alcohol Studies. He has been at CAS since 1978. He received his
M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from West Virginia University. His teaching interests are in design and quantitative data
analysis. His research interests include: etiology and consequences of alcohol and drug use, maturing out of alcohol/drug use
in young adulthood, theories of reasons/motivations for use, longitudinal studies of use, and analysis of intraindividual
change.
Phone: (732 ) 445-3580 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: ewl@rci.rutgers.edu
James W. Langenbucher, (Ph.D.,
Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Division of Clinical Services at CAS. He received his B.A. in Psychology
from the University of California at Riverside and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. He is a
licensed psychologist in New Jersey and a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. Dr. Langenbucher has been since
1989 Principal Investigator of the Research Diagnostic Project, a multisite study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
to advance the descriptive psychopathology and nosology of substance use disorders and associated conditions. His teaching interests
are in adult experimental and descriptive psychopathology. Dr. Langenbucher's other areas of interest include socioeconomic research
on addictions, addictions consultation in the general medical setting, and the assessment and treatment of alcoholism in the elderly. From 1988-1994, Dr. Langenbucher was an advisor to the Substance Use Disorders Work Group of the DSM-IV Task Force. In 1992-93, he was a consultant to the Executive Office of the President, and is senior author of Socioeconomic Evaluations of Addictions Treatment, a major review of cost-of-illness, cost-benefit, cost-offset and cost-effectiveness research published by the White House Printing Office. Dr. Langenbucher is the current holder of an Independent Scientist Award (K02) from NIDA.
Phone: (732) 445-0908 Fax: (801) 327-0539
Email: lngnbchr@rci.rutgers.edu
Barbara McCrady (Ph.D., University of Rhode Island) is on
a leave of absence from Rutgers University. At Rutgers, she is a Professor II at the Center and at the Rutgers Graduate School
of Applied and Professional Psychology. At the Center, Dr. McCrady has been involved primarily in clinical trials research to
develop and test effective approaches to the treatment of alcohol and other substance use disorders. Her research has focused on
the role of the family and other social support systems in recognition, coping with, and resolution of substance use disorders.
Dr. McCrady is a clinical psychologist whose research and clinical interests also include the study of cognitive behavioral
treatments for substance use disorders, AA and other self-help groups, and the special issues of women with alcohol use disorders.
Her research has been funded by NIAAA and NIDA since 1979.
Gail Gleason Milgram (Ed.D., Rutgers) is a
Professor at the Center; she is also Director of Education and Training. Dr. Milgram is primarily involved in conducting the
School of Alcohol and Drug Studies, Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the Continuing Professional Education Seminars.
She also jointly directs the International Schools of Alcohol and Drug Studies through a partnership with Hazelden.
In addition, Dr. Milgram directs the Johnson & Johnson School Nurse Fellowship Program, which she developed in 1988.
She also teaches undergraduate Honors courses for Rutgers College and University College. Dr. Milgram’s interests, which are
reflected in her many publications, include the introduction to drinking, youthful drinking, and alcohol education. She has
surveyed colleges throughout the U.S.A. to identify promising strategies to deal with alcohol abuse on campus. Her interest
in college policies and programs led to her work on an action planner and task force planner. Dr. Milgram received the
Caron Foundation Award for Educational Excellence in 2003 and the Addiction Professionals Certification Board of New Jersey, Inc.
Pioneer Award in 2004.
Phone: (732) 445-4317 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: gmilgram@rci.rutgers.edu
Thomas J. Morgan, (Psy.D., Rutgers) is a research associate at the
Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS) and has been a faculty member at CAS since 1992. He also has a joint faculty appointment
at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP). Dr. Morgan received his B.A. in Psychology from the
University of Wyoming, his M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Tulsa University, and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers
University. Dr. Morgan is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and has a part-time private practice through the CAS Faculty
Practice Plan. In addition, he has been a study clinician in two grants: “Adapting Behavioral Marital Couples Therapy to
Treat Drug Abuse (NIDA) and “Testing Alcohol Behavioral Couples Therapy for Women” (NIAAA). Dr. Morgan provides
supervision to graduate students in the Ph.D. and Psy.D. clinical psychology programs as well as teaches “Structured
Diagnostic Interviewing” to Ph.D. students. His areas of specialization include cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment,
behavioral couples treatment, time-limited interventions, and training and supervision of addiction’s counselors. Dr.
Morgan’s research interests include retention and engagement in substance abuse interventions, dissemination of empirically
supported treatments to “real world” settings, and assessment of treatment processes in addiction’s treatment.
Phone: (732) 445-0902 Fax: (732) 445-5944
Email: tjmorgan@rci.rutgers.edu
Eun Young Mun, (Ph.D. , Michigan State University) is an
Assistant Professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies with a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional
Psychology. Dr. Mun has been at CAS since 2006. She is a developmental and quantitative psychologist whose research interests
include identifying risk and protective factors and explaining causal pathways for children and adolescents at risk for substance
use from the lifespan, multi-generational perspective. In pursuit of her research interests, she has utilized multilevel linear
and nonlinear models, structural equation models, cluster analysis and finite mixture models, and integrative models for research
on longitudinal, experimental, and treatment research in the field of addictive behaviors. In addition, her research
interests include highlighting characteristics of existing and emerging analytic techniques and demonstrating their utility and the
know-how for more applied researchers.
Phone: (732) 445-3580 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: eymun@rci.rutgers.edu
Web:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eymun/
Penny Booth Page, (M.L.S.,Rutgers, Emerita)
was at the Center of Alcohol Studies for more than 29 years. She was the director of the Information Services Division and was
responsible for all operations of the Center's alcohol research library. Ms. Page received her B.A. in English and her M.L.S. from
Rutgers University. She was the secretary of the New Jersey chapter of the Association of College and Research Librarians,
and is a past chair of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists, an international association of alcohol/drug
information professionals. Ms. Page has authored two reference books and numerous articles on alcohol information resources and
dissemination, as well as articles on the history of the Center of Alcohol Studies and on the role of E. M. Jellinek in the alcohol
field. She worked on the development of web-based tools for access to alcohol scientific and historical
information.
Phone: (732) 445-4442 Fax: (732) 445-5944
Email: ppage@rci.rutgers.edu
Regina Pietruszko, (Ph.D.,Univ. of London, Emerita),
Professor of Biochemistry, was at CAS for more than 30 years. She was a Principal Investigator on an NIAAA Grant:
"Human aldehyde dehydrogenase isozymes and alcoholism". She received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
London, UK. Dr. Pietruszko's current interests focus on physiological roles of human aldehyde dehydrogenases. Areas of expertise
include: enzymology, protein chemistry, enzyme kinetics, chemical modification of proteins, purification and characterization
of enzymes, cloning and amino acid sequence determination, as well as expression of cloned enzymes.
Phone: (732) 445-3643 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: pietrusz@rci.rutgers.edu
Larissa A. Pohorecky, (Ph.D.,Univ. of Chicago)
has been at the Center of Alcohol Studies since 1979. She completed her postdoctoral training in neuroendocrinology
with Dr. Richard Wurtman at MIT. Prior to coming to Rutgers she was Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University.
Currently, she is a Professor of Neuropharmacology. Dr. Pohorecky's areas of specialization are: interaction of alcohol and stress,
alcohol tolerance and physical dependence, and neuropsychopharmacology of alcohol. Her current research involves neuroendocrine
control of alcohol consumption and the effect of acute and chronic stressors on the consumption of alcohol and the behavioral
effects of alcohol. Dr. Pohorecky received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. in Pharmacology
from the University of Chicago. She is a member of many professional societies as well as many editorial boards.
Phone: (732) 445-3592 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: larissa@rci.rutgers.edu
Suchismita Ray (Ph.D., Rutgers) is a Research Associate at the Center
of Alcohol Studies. She joined the Cognitive Neuroscience Research group in November, 2000. She received her B.S. in Psychology
from Calcutta University, India, her M.S. in Applied Psychology (specializing in Clinical Psychology) from Calcutta University,
India, and M.S. and Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University, Newark. Her research interests include: alcohol and
other drug effects on neurocognitive functioning in social drinkers and chronic alcoholic patients, using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neurocognitve changes associated with alcohol challenge and due to chronic alcohol abuse,
understanding the interaction of alcohol and stress, and prevention and intervention of alcohol and drug related problems in
high school, college students, and chemically dependent individuals. She is currently an investigator of a National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supported research project (Rutgers Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center Grant) that aims to
design prevention interventions using information gained through studies of how individuals transitioning key developmental
phases acquire and integrate information about substance use behavior into their behavior
Phone: (732)445-4261 Fax: (732)445-350
email: shmita@rci.rutgers.edu
Dipak Sarkar, D.Phil (Oxford University, UK) and Ph.D.
(Calcutta University, India) is trained in neuroendocrinology. He is currently Professor II in the Department of Animal
Sciences and the Director of the Endocrinology Program as well as Director of the Biomedical Division of the Center for Alcohol
Studies. He has served as Chair of the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University and as Director of the Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Unit at Washington State University. Dr. Sarkar has served on editorial boards of Endocrinology and
Neuroendocrinology journals. In addition, he has served on numerous NIH review committees. Dr. Sarkar is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. The overall goal of Dr. Sarkar’s research program is to understand
the growth, differentiation and function of the neuroendocrine cells controlling addiction, reproduction and immune function
and how alcohol abuse, natural and environmental estrogens and stress alter these processes at the cellular and molecular levels.
Current interests include determination of the alcohol effects on the development of neuroendocrine axis of stress; alcohol
influences on natural killer cell cytolytic activity and pituitary tumorigenesis; cellular mechanisms involved in alcohol-induced
neuronal apoptosis; and the detection of estrogenic properties in environmental compounds and their effects on reproductive
development. Dr. Sarkar teaches endocrinology and neuroendocrinology courses and trains research to undergraduate, graduate and
postdoctoral students.
Phone (732) 932-1529 Fax: (732) 932-4134
Email: sarkar@aesop.rutgers.edu
Yiping Wang (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an Assistant Research Professor at
the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers since 2005, with a joint
appointment at the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - UMDNJ. Dr. Wang was trained in Early
Childhood Education. Her current research focuses on interactive effects of prenatal drug exposure and environmental risk on developmental
outcomes with a longitudinal focus, and drug abuse prevention research. Before joining Rutgers University, Dr. Wang was a faculty member at the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Medical School. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Wang secured multiple competitive grants
from government and private sectors and developed an innovative demonstration model that integrates addiction treatment with early intervention for
children and families affected by maternal substance abuse. Her research focused on the effectiveness of this integrative model on recovering,
parenting function, and children's health. Dr. Wang advocated for best practices for gender-specific treatment programming for substance abusing
women with young children. Her other research interest includes socialization process of ethnic minority children, ethnic identity development,
and teachers' training.
Phone: (732) 445-2190 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: yipwang@rci.rutgers.edu
Judit Ward (Ph.D., Debrecen University, Hungary,
M.L.I.S., Rutgers) has been at CAS since 2007. She is the Director of the Information Services Division and is
responsible for all operations of the Center's Research Library. She holds a Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of
Debrecen, Hungary and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from Rutgers. Her areas of specialization
include applied linguistics, medical communication and informatics, library and information science. She has co-authored
bilingual communication textbooks and numerous articles on second-language acquisition and instructional technology in the
online learning environment. She is a librarian-information specialist whose research interests include digital libraries,
the evaluation of information in the electronic environment, human information behavior and cross-cultural research methods.
She is a member of many professional organizations and the North American Director of the European Consortium for the
Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages.
Phone: (732) 445-4442 Fax: (732) 445-5944
Email: judit.ward@rutgers.edu
Helene Raskin White (Ph.D., Rutgers)
is a Professor of Sociology at the Center with a joint appointment in the Sociology Department. Dr. White received her Ph.D.
in Sociology from Rutgers University. She is currently engaged in longitudinal research on the etiology, consequences, and
comorbidity of substance use, crime, violence and mental health problems in community and high-risk samples. In addition,
she is directing several studies developing, implementing, and evaluating brief substance use interventions for college
students, including mandated students, incoming students, and student athletes. Dr. White has a book on patterns and
predictors of delinquency and crime in press, has co-edited two books on alcohol studies, and has published extensively in the
drug, criminology, and sociology journals. She organized the founding of the Section on Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco of the
American Sociological Association and served as its Chair twice. Currently, she is an Associate Editor or on the
Editorial Boards of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, the Journal of Drug Issues , and the Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency and serves on several national advisory boards. Dr. White has served as a consultant and grant reviewer
for Federal, State, and local agencies and for private foundations.
Phone: (732) 445-3579 Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: hewhite@rci.rutgers.edu
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