Nursing Research Training: Substance Abuse

PI: Elaine Thompson

Elaine Thompson PhD, RN Professor Psychosocial & Community Health Box 358732 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7262 Email: elainet@u.washington.edu

• Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
• Project Period: 7/1/1991 - 6/30/2008
• Current Faculty
  • Elaine Thompson - Principal Investigator (6 active projects)
  • John Baer - Co-Investigator
  • David Lovell - Co-Investigator (1 active projects)
  • Sheryl Tyson - Co-Investigator
  • David Allen - Mentor
  • Susan Astley - Mentor
  • Randal Beaton - Mentor (1 active projects)
  • Katherine Beckett  - Mentor
  • Patricia Betrus - Mentor (2 active projects)
  • Richard Brandon - Mentor
  • Donald Calsyn  - Mentor
  • Richard Catalano  - Mentor
  • Susanna Cunningham - Mentor (1 active projects)
  • Dennis Donovan - Mentor
  • Lewayne Gilchrist - Mentor
  • Therese Grant - Mentor
  • Tracy Harachi  - Mentor
  • John Hawkins - Mentor
  • Jerald Herting - Mentor (4 active projects)
  • Daniel Kivlahan  - Mentor
  • Mary Larimer  - Mentor
  • G Marlatt - Mentor
  • Ross Matsueda  - Mentor
  • Elizabeth McCauley - Mentor
  • Susan McCurry - Mentor (7 active projects)
  • Barbara McGrath - Mentor (3 active projects)
  • Clayton Neighbors  - Mentor
  • Richard Ries  - Mentor
  • Roger Roffman  - Mentor
  • Andrew Saxon - Mentor
  • Jenny Tsai - Mentor (1 active projects)
  • Ann Vander Stoep - Mentor
  • Elaine Walsh - Mentor (3 active projects)
  • Elizabeth Wells - Mentor
  • Mayumi Willgerodt - Mentor

A bio-psycho-social conceptual model with two foci will serve as the theoretical basis for research training. Focus 1, High risk population, facilitates development of research expertise in vulnerability/protective factors and biobehavioral patterns of substance use/abuse. Focus 2, Prevention, early detection and intervention, facilitates development of research expertise with models of skill training, differential assessment (dual diagnosis) and matching client characteristics to treatment characteristics. The faculty preceptors are 15 University of Washington nationally and internationally recognized researchers/scholars. Ten focus exclusively on substance abuse, all have programs of research consistent with training program foci and many collaborate. The training program site is the U.W. School of Nursing, whose faculty has an extramural funding BRSG entitlement base of $2,959,019, the highest in the U.S. The training program for five predoctoral trainees is designed to complement the existing Ph.D fields of study. The three postdoctoral trainees will design individual programs of study based on the two conceptual foci described above. All trainees must meet selection criteria and their progress will be evaluated quarterly. Special efforts are described to recruit ethnic minorities. The research training described is expected to prepare nurse scientists in substance abuse. Nurse researchers are currently underrepresented in the field.