Faculty, Staff + Advisors - Vermont Center on Behavior and Health | College of Medicine | University of Vermont

Faculty, Staff & Advisors

Leadership
Name	Title	Information
Stephen T. Higgins, PhD	VCBH Director COBRE PI/Director TCORS PI/Director NIH/NIDA Research Training Program PI/Director	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Brief Bio
Philip A. Ades, MD	VCBH Associate Director COBRE Co-I/Associate Director TCORS Co-I	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Stacey C. Sigmon, PhD	COBRE Core Director, Behavioral Economics COBRE Core Co-Director, Collaboration/Dissemination TCORS Project PI	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Diann E. Gaalema, PhD	COBRE Core Associate Director, Administration COBRE Project PI TCORS Site PI	Email \| PubMed \| CV
John R. Hughes, MD	TCORS Associate Director TCORS Co-I	Email \| PubMed \| CV Grant Abstracts Other Support
Sarah H. Heil, PhD	TCORS Project PI NIH/NIDA Research Training Program Associate Director	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Hugh P. Garavan, PhD	Neuroimaging Research Vermont (NERVE) Lab Director	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Richard A. Rawson, PhD	Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Andrea Villanti, PhD	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Allison Kurti, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV
Brian Sprague, PhD	VCBH Senior Epidemiologist Former COBRE Project Director Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UVM Larner College of Medicine	Email \| PubMed \| CV

Administrative Staff
Name	Title	Information
Nancy S. Bercaw	Communications Specialist	Email
Diana Cain	Research Grant Administrator	Email
Susan Enos	Administrative Assistant	Email
Lauren Tursi	Project Manager	Email
Marissa Wells	Research Staff Assistant	Email

Biostatistians
Name	Title	Information
Gary J. Badger, MS	Biostatistian	Email
Joan M. Skelly, MS	Biostatistian	Email

External Advisors
Name	Affiliation	Information
Warren Bickel, PhD.	Virginia Tech	Email \| PubMed
George Bigelow, PhD	Johns Hopkins University	Email \| PubMed
Leonard Epstein PhD	University at Buffalo	Email \| PubMed
Jack Henningfield, PhD	Pinney Associates	Email \| PubMed
Steven Schroeder, MD	University of California, San Francisco	Email \| PubMed

External Consultants
Name	Affiliation	Information
Henrietta S. Bada, MD.	University of Kentucky	Email \| PubMed
Peter Anthony Hall, PhD	Ontario College of Psychologists	Email \| PubMed
Michael J. Meaney, PhD	McGill University	Email \| PubMed
Rena R. Wing, PhD	Brown University	Email \| PubMed
Donald Shepard, PhD	Brandeis University	Email \| PubMed

Internal Advisors
Name	Affiliation	Information
Mark E. Bouton, PhD	UVM Department of Psychology	Email \| PubMed
Charles G. Irvin, PhD.	UVM Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics	Email \| PubMed
Rachel K. Johnson, PhD	UVM Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences	Email \| PubMed
Polly E. Parsons, MD	UVM Department of Medicine	Email \| PubMed
Patricia A. Prelock, PhD	UVM College of Nursing & Health Sciences	Email \| PubMed

Community Advisory Board
Name	Title	Information
John R. Brooklyn, MD	UVM Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Medicine and Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed
Wendy S. Davis, MD	EPSDT Program Chief, State of Vermont, Department of Health	Email \| PubMed
Craig A. Jones, MD	Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health	Email
Victoria Loner, RNC, B, PAHM	Director, Quality and Care Coordination, OneCare Vermont	Email
Judy S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN, FAAP	Executive Director, Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP); Research Associate Professor, UVM Departments of Pediatrics and Nursing	Email

External Research Collaborators
Name	Affiliation	Information
Jennifer Tidey, PhD	Brown University	Email \| PubMed
Craig Rush, PhD	University of Kentucky	Email \| PubMed
Maxine Stitzer	Johns Hopkins University	Email \| PubMed

Affiliated Faculty
Name	Affiliation	Information
Takamaru Ashikaga, PhD	UVM Department of Biostatistics	Email \| PubMed
Ira Bernstein, MD	UVM Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences	Email \| PubMed
Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD, RD	UVM Department of Nutrition and Food Science	Email \| PubMed
James Hudziak, MD	UVM Department of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed
Alexandra S. Potter, PhD	UVM Department of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed
Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD	University of Wisconsin	Email \| PubMed

COBRE Pilot Project Investigators
Name	Affiliation	Information
Anita Fernander, PhD	University of Kentucky	Email \| PubMed
Lynn Hernandez, PhD	Brown University	Email \| PubMed
Nadine Mastroleo, Ph.D.	Brown University	Email \| PubMed
Jeremy Sibold, EdD	University of Vermont	Email \| PubMed
Jamie Studts, Ph.D	University of Kentucky	Email \| PubMed