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Mary E. Larimer, PhD, is associate director of the University of Washington's Addictive Behaviors Research Center, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and adjunct associate professor of psychology. Dr. Larimer received her doctorate from the University of Washington in 1992 and joined the faculty in 1995. Dr. Larimer's research and clinical interests include (a) prevention and treatment of alcohol problems among adolescents and college students; (b) prediction of initiation of drinking and maintenance of low- or high-risk drinking patterns during college; (c) comorbidity of substance use with depression, disordered eating, and gambling problems; and (d) dissemination of evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches into clinical, school, and workplace settings. Dr. Larimer is the author and coauthor of numerous journal articles and book chapters on alcohol-related topics. She is principal investigator or coinvestigator of four longitudinal outcome trials of prevention strategies for high-risk drinking funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. |