Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment

Deputy Editor in Chief

The deputy editor in chief provides support to the editor in chief on editorial decision-making, and is responsible for editorial-decisions when the editor in chief is unavailable or has declared a conflict of interest.

Susan Ramsey, PhD

Dr. Ramsey is an Associate 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's research focuses on the confluence of substance use, psychiatric disorders, and medical issues. She has served as principal investigator on 7 NIH-funded clinical trials. 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 75 peer-reviewed publications. She has reviewed grant applications for NIH and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for 15 scientific journals.

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Supplement Guest Editors & Editorial Board Members

Supplement guest editors are responsible for the editorial content of published supplements, and as editorial board members are a source of peer reviewers and may occasionally provide assistance to the editor in chief.  Further information on the editorial board is available here, and information on the roles of guest editors in supplements is available here.  

Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomology and Risk for Substance Abuse: Unique and Interactive Influences:

Kate Flory, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Andrea Howard, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

John Mitchell, PhD
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Sarah Pederson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Editorial Board Members

The editorial board is the journal's primary source of peer reviewers and members occasionally provide assistance to the editor in chief.  The editor in chief welcomes applications from suitable candidates to join the editorial board.  Further information on the editorial board is available here.

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

Jennifer Bolden, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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

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

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

Peter Friedmann, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

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

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

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

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

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

Laura MacPherson, PhD
Department of Psychology, Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER), University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA

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

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

Rudolf Moos, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Research Health Science Specialist, VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA

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

Ryan C. Shorey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA 

Audra L. Stinchcomb, PhD
Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Chief Scientific Officer and Founder, AllTranz Inc

Gyongyi Szabo, PhD, MD
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Endowed Chair; Associate Vice Provost for Interprofessional Education in Research; Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences; Professor and Vice Chair for Research; Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts, USA

Jeff R. Temple, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Behavioral Health and Research, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis UCD Medical Center Research, Sacramento, California, 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, Maryland, USA