JOINT FACULTY BIOSKETCHES

Brenna Hafer Bry (Ph.D., University of Missouri at Columbia). In addition to serving as an Investigator at CAS, Brenna Hafer Bry is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. To CAS’s research, she brings more than 25 years of experience working with colleagues and doctoral students to (a) study what protective and risk factors predispose certain adolescents to substance use problems, (b) develop data-based, manualized, selective/secondary, school-based prevention interventions to change those protective and risk factors in vulnerable adolescents, and (c) conduct efficacy and effectiveness trials in multiple Mid-Atlantic urban and suburban school systems to explore the degree to which the interventions reliably change protective and risk factors and eventually substance use itself. Recently, she and her research group began investigating possible adolescent-centered mediators of changes in protective and risk factors. Dr. Bry’s previous work has brought her ample experience in reviewing the substance abuse prevention literature, conducting controlled trials in school settings, writing manuals, training/supervising intervention and research staff, and assessing intervention adherence/fidelity, and risk, protective, process, and outcome variables for statistical analysis and interpretation. Her data sources have varied from archival school records to individual interviews, coded audio/video tape interactions, classroom observations, and paper and pencil surveys. Dr. Bry has served on NIDA grant review committees and participated on NIDA research analysis and utilization panels. Of particular relevance to CAS’s Prevention Research Center are her experiences in NIDA Behavioral Therapy Development Program Workshops and as Chair of that program’s Workshop on the Role of Process Variable Research in the Development of Adolescent Interventions.
Phone: 732-445-2000, x114 Fax: 732-445-4888
E-mail: bbry@rci.rutgers.ed

Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, and Vice Chair of the Leadership Team of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. His recent books include, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, and Socially Skilled Child, with a foreword written by Daniel Goleman, published by Harmony/Random House in 2000 (see www.EQParenting.com for information) , and Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults (Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2002). Released in 2001 was Engaging the Resistant Child Through Computers: A Manual for Social -Emotional Learning ( available through www.nprinc.com). Also recently released are Engaging the Resistant Child Through Computers: A Manual for Social-Emotional Learning (available through www.nprinc.com),Building Learning Communities with Character: How to Integrate Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (www.ASCD.org) and EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools (Corwin Press, 2003). Dr. Elias is a licensed psychologist, an approved provider of professional development for educators in NJ, and is married and the father of two children.
Phone:  (732) 445-2444 Fax:   (732) 445-0036
Email:   HPUSY@AOL.COM

Paul J. Hirschfield (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an affiliated member of the Program in Criminal Justice. He teaches courses in criminology, punishment and social control, and juvenile justice. His theoretical and empirical work focuses on the social control of youth in the contexts of schools and the justice system, which includes research on the effectiveness of social interventions. His current research centers on interrelationships between schools and the criminal justice system and the reintegration of youth from correctional facilities into schools.
Phone: 732-445-0765 Fax: 732-445-0974
E-mail: phirschfield@sociology.rutgers.edu

Allan V. Horwitz, (Ph.D., Yale University). Dr. Horwitz's major interests are in the field of the sociology of mental illness and deviance and social control. He is the author of The Social Control of Mental Illness (Academic Press), The Logic of Social Control (Plenum), and Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press). He is also the co-editor of A Handbook for the Study of the Sociology of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems (Cambridge University Press). His articles have appeared in a number of journals including Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Journal of Marriage and the Family. Professor Horwitz is also Co-Director of the Rutgers Postdoctoral Training Program in Mental Health Services. He is currently engaged in research on the sociology of depression and the impact of social roles on mental health.
Phone:   (732) 932-8378   Fax:   (732) 932-6872
E-mail:   avhorw@rci.rutgers.edu

Shalonda Kelly (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an assistant professor in the clinical department of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.  She has a dual Ph.D. in child and family clinical psychology and urban studies from Michigan State University.  Dr. Kelly’s primary research interests are racial, ethnic and cultural issues, and couple relationships.  Dr. Kelly is interested in the multimethod understanding of race, ethnicity, and culture.  For example, she has studied ethnic factors from a macro perspective, examining underlying dimensions of racial perspectives across a variety of instruments administered to African Americans.  In examining such factors from micro perspective, she has developed a measure of racial and cultural differences that are manifested in therapy for diverse substance abusing couples.  Dr. Kelly’s research on couples involves assessment and treatment research, as well as research seeking to understand the impact of race, ethnicity and culture on couple relationships.
Phone:  (732) 445-1791     Fax:  (732) 445-4888
E-mail:  skelly@rci.rutgers.edu

Charles A. Maher (Psy.D., Rutgers University) has a primary appointment as a Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, in addition to his appointment at the Center of Alcohol Studies. He also is a fellow of and diplomate in several psychological societies. Dr. Maher’s research has been devoted to development of frameworks, methods and procedures for the planning and evaluation of human services programs, including employee assistance programs. In addition, Dr. Maher has over 20 years experience in sport psychology at professional, elite athlete, and collegiate levels in all major sports. Within that context, he has developed programs for and counseled numerous athletes with alcohol and substance abuse problems. Currently, he is team psychologist for the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers and he is responsible for employee assistance services in those settings. Dr. Maher also serves as a psychological consultant to the Department of Sports Medicine and the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at Rutgers.
Phone:  (732) 445-2170 Fax:  (732) 445-4888
E-mail: camaher@rci.rutgers.edu

Robert Monaco, (M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and M.P.H., Rutgers and UMDNJ RWJ Medical School) is Director of Sports Medicine/Assistant Athletics Director at Rutgers University. He has been the Team Physician at Rutgers University since 1996. His primary responsibilities are to oversee the medical treatment of athletes for the 30 Division I sports at the University, as well as supervise a group of eleven full-time certified athletic trainers. In addition to his work with the Scarlet Knights, Dr. Monaco is a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and assists with directing the school’s Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. His educational background includes a Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia University, where he competed in wrestling and captained the team his senior year. He went on to receive his Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his residency at UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and St. Peter’s Hospital in New Brunswick, working with the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Monaco has also done postgraduate study and completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, which included work at Princeton University and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. In addition, Dr. Monaco holds a Master’s in Public Health from Rutgers and UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. A native of Nutley, NJ, Dr. Monaco comes from a family of physical educators, coaches, and athletes. Dr. Monaco and his wife, Carolyn, are the proud parents of one son.
Phone: (732) 445-6258 Fax: (732) 445-2780
Email: rmonaco@scarletknights.com

Lea P. Stewart (Ph.D., Purdue) is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Communication Health Issues in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.  Her research focuses on issues of dangerous drinking prevention among college students with a particular interest in the influence of gender on health-related behaviors.  She and Linda Lederman developed the RU SURE Campaign (a dangerous drinking prevention program), which has been recognized as Model Program by the U.S. Department of Education.  Dr. Stewart’s research links interpersonally based prevention strategies with mass mediated campaigns targeting college student drug and alcohol use.  She has consulted on health communication and education in the U.S. and abroad.  Most recently, she has provided technical assistance to Moldova State University (Republic of Moldova).  In 2003, she received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence.
Phone:  (732) 932-7500 ext. 8124   Fax:  (732) 932-8842
E-mail:  lstewart@scils.rutgers.edu

Jay A. Tischfield, (Ph.D., Yale) is Chair of the Rutgers Department of Genetics. He is a medical geneticist interested in complex inherited diseases. Some of his research concerns the genetic bases of addiction disorders in humans. As part of the COGA (Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism) project he participates in the identification of genes involved in alcoholism. Likewise, as co-director of the NIDA and NIMH Centers for Genetic Studies, he is involved in the organization of family studies aimed at finding genes involved in heroin, cocaine and nicotine addiction as well as in brain diseases such as autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His recent research has included studies that identified functional polymorphisms in the mu opioid receptor in heroin addict populations and the production of animal models with defects in the mu opioid receptor or purine metabolic pathways that might be involved in behavior.
Phone:   (732) 445-1027   Fax:   (732) 445-1147
E-mail:   jay@biology.rutgers.edu

Arthur Tomie (Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center, where he is primarily involved in a research project evaluating the role of Pavlovian autoshaping in the induction of excessive and uncontrollable ethanol drinking in rats. Dr. Tomie is also an Associate Professor in the Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program of the Department of Psychology. His research interests also include animal models of psychopathology, animal learning and behavior, drug discrimination, and drug abuse.
Phone:   (732) 445-3595   Fax:   (732) 445-3500
Email:   tomie@rci.rutgers.edu

Minge Xie, (Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
Phone:   (732) 445-2546
E-mail:   mxie@stat.rutgers.edu
Homepage:   http://stat.rutgers.edu/~mxie/

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