Faculty

Nicholas Allen, PhD

Nicholas Allen, PhD, uses a developmental psychopathology approach to understand how children and adolescents are affected by their environments. He focuses on how family interactions and other aspects of the child’s environment influence the child’s emotional functioning and affect the development of the biological systems associated with these emotions. Vita

Liz Budd, PhD

Dr. Liz Budd (she/her/hers) is an Evergreen Associate Professor in the UO’s Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department and Scientist in the Prevention Science Institute. Dr. Budd is also a member of the Health Promotion Initiative (https://blogs.uoregon.edu/hpop/). Nationally, Dr. Budd holds leadership roles in the Physical Activity Section of the American Public Health Association.

Allison Caruthers, PhD

Allison Caruthers, PhD, is interested in adolescent gender and sexual socialization and their relationship to sexual behavior, sexual risk-taking, and emotional well-being in adolescence and adulthood. She is examining the distinction between normal, healthy sexual exploration and truly problematic behavior, as well as possible mechanisms by which intervention services reduce risky sexual behavior.

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Krista Chronister, PhD

Krista Chronister, PhD, focuses her research on partner violence prevention and community-based intervention, including women survivors’ economic and vocational development, community mental health interventions with ethnic minority and immigrant families experiencing partner violence, and young adults at risk for partner violence and substance use. Vita

Jessica M. Cronce, PhD

Jessica M. Cronce, PhD, is interested in how alcohol use and other health-related behaviors overlap and interact to predict risk among young adults and how to prevent or lessen those harms. She is evaluating motivational enhancement–based preventive approaches and assessing how marijuana legalization affects young adult cannabis use.

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Brian Danaher, PhD

Brian Danaher, PhD, is interested in developing and evaluating self-management interventions designed to encourage health behavior change, especially programs delivered using technology. Much of his research has focused on controlled tests of eHealth interventions and related themes, such as recruitment, participant engagement, imputing missing data, and implementation/dissemination issues.

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Dave DeGarmo, PhD

Dr. Dave DeGarmo is a research professor and a prevention science methodologist at the UO Prevention Science Institute and the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services. Dave teaches prevention methodology courses on intervention design and evaluation, structural equation modeling, and multilevel modeling in the College of Education.   He is a former postdoctoral fellow of the NIMH Family Research Consortium of the National Institute on Mental Health and an affiliated scientist of the Oregon Social Learning Center.

Nicole Giuliani, PhD

Nicole Giuliani, PhD, is faculty in the School Psychology and Prevention Science programs at the College of Education. Her research focuses on better understanding the affective, cognitive, and neural mechanisms underlying food craving, consumption, and self-regulation, as well as how parents manage their own emotions and behaviors in the process of teaching their children how to engage in healthy self-regulation. Nicole received her PhD from Stanford University, and completed her post-doctoral training in the Psychology Department at UO

Randy Kamphaus, PhD

Professor Kamphaus spent most of his career on the faculty of his alma mater, the University of Georgia. There he served in a variety of roles including, distinguished research professor, department head, college research administrator, clinic director, and academic program coordinator, among other roles. He subsequently served as Dean of the College of Education at Georgia State University.

Nichole Kelly, PhD

Professor Kelly’s research interests are in eating behaviors, body image beliefs, weight stigma, and chronic disease risk. She has specific interests in cognitive and emotional mechanisms for eating behaviors associated with poor mental health and increased chronic disease risk. Her program of research utilizes a diverse array of research methods including experimental paradigms; test meals; dietary recalls; neuropsychological evaluations; ecological momentary assessments; eye-tracking; and actigraphy.

Atika Khurana, PhD

Atika Khurana, PhD, is interested in understanding the onset of health risk behaviors during adolescence. She uses an ecological systems approach to examine the interplay of individual and environmental risk and protective factors as they relate to adolescent substance use, risky sexual behaviors, academic disengagement, and mental health problems.

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Derek Kosty, PhD

Derek Kosty, PhD, studies problematic substance use across the lifespan, effects of academic and behavioral interventions, and applied quantitative research methods. His methodological expertise includes group- and single-case designs, advanced statistical modeling of longitudinal and multilevel data, and structural equation modeling with latent variables.

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Leslie Leve, PhD

Leslie Leve, PhD, associate director of the Prevention Science Institute, focuses her research on interventions to prevent risk behaviors and improve well-being for youths in foster care and youths in the juvenile justice system, and adoption studies that examine the interplay between biological (genetic, hormonal), family, and contextual influences on development. 

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Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD

Laura Lee McIntyre, PhD, is interested in early identification and treatment of childhood developmental and behavioral problems, with an emphasis on the systems of care that support children at risk for negative social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Specific research involves parent training, education, and support; transition to kindergarten; and family well-being.

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Kevin Moore, PhD

Kevin Moore, PhD, has focused his professional and scientific career on the development and implementation of evidence-based and evidence-informed behavioral health treatments for children, youths, and families.

John Seeley, PhD

John Seeley, PhD, is a professor in special education and clinical sciences. His research interests include emotional and behavioral disorders, behavioral health intervention, research design and program evaluation, and health-related technology. He is especially interested in school-based screening, prevention, and treatment for internalizing psychopathology.

Samantha Shune, PhD

Samantha Shune, PhD, research and clinical interests include the effects of healthy and pathologic aging on swallowing and the mealtime process. Her work focuses on better understanding swallowing in context among healthy older adults and across various clinical populations. Swallowing impairments (dysphagia) result in profound biopsychosocial disability, impacting both the individual with the impairment and their loved ones.

McKay Moore Sohlberg, PhD, CCC-SLP

McKay Moore Sohlberg, PhD, CCC-SLP, research focuses on the development of treatments that help people with acquired brain injury manage changes in cognitive functioning including attention, memory and executive functions. Her recent focus has been on translational activities to facilitate adoption of treatment models that increase specificity and consistency of treatment across providers of cognitive rehabilitation who work in different fields.

Emily Tanner-Smith, PhD

Emily Tanner-Smith, PhD, studies the effectiveness of prevention and treatment programs for substance use, delinquency, and other mental health problems. Her research uses meta-analytic methods to advance evidence-informed prevention programming, with a particular emphasis on understanding variability in the effectiveness of interventions across diverse populations and contexts.

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Beth Stormshak, PhD

Beth Stormshak, PhD, director of the Prevention Science Institute, has expertise in the area of prevention, including prevention of substance use, problem behavior, and later mental health problems in children and youths. Her research focuses on the development of family-centered, model-driven interventions designed to reduce problem behavior and promote successful developmental transitions.