VCBH Faculty and Collaborators

Faculty and Collaborators

Administration
Name	Title	Information	Phone
Stephen T. Higgins, PhD	VCBH Director Virginia H. Donaldson Professor of Translational Science Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science COBRE PI/Director TCORS PI/Director NIH/NIDA T32 Research Training Program PI/Director	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Elias Klemperer, PhD	VCBH Associate Director Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Psychological Science	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-1641
Susan Enos	Program Specialist	Email	802-656-9615
Danielle Ziller	Center Administrator	Email	802-656-9600
Chris Pung	Research Coordinator	Email	802-656-1187

Faculty
Name	Title	Information	Phone
Tom Ahern, PhD, MPH	Associate Professor Department of Surgery Former VCBH COBRE Project Leader	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Rob Althoff, MD, PhD	Chair of Psychiatry and Associate Professor Former VCBH COBRE Project Leader	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-1070
Philip A. Ades, MD	VCBH Associate Director Emeritus Professor of Medicine COBRE Co-I/Associate Director TCORS Co-I	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Ira Bernstein, MD	John Van Sicklen Maeck Professor and Chair Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Bernstein Lab	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-847-5112
Bader Chaarani, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Sulamunn "Sully" Coleman, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Kim Dittus, MD, PhD	Associate Professor of Medicine / Clinical Director, Oncology Rehab Former VCBH COBRE Project Leader	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-5470
Kirk Dombrowski, PhD	Vice President for Research University of Vermont	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-2918
Hugh P. Garavan, PhD	Professor of Psychiatry Neuroimaging Research Vermont (NERVE) Lab Director	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-9618
Sarah H. Heil, PhD	Professor of Psychiatry Associate Director, UVM TCORS NIH/NIDA Research Training Program Associate Director (T32) Associate Director, UVM Center on Rural Addiction (CORA)	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-8712
Amy Hughes Lansing, PhD	VCBH COBRE Project Leader Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Psychological Science Hughes Lansing Lab	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Sherrie Khadanga, MD	VCBH COBRE Project Leader Assistant Professor of Medicine Assistant Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation Cardiologist, UVM Medical Center	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-847-2700
Heidi Melbostad, PhD	Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Director, Chittenden Clinic	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Katherine Menson, DO	Assistant Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-847-1158
Kelly Peck, PhD	VCBH COBRE Project Leader Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Psychological Science PET Study Lab	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-9610
Julie Phillips, MD	Associate Professor, Obstetrics-Gynecology & Maternal Fetal Medicine Former VCBH COBRE Project Leader	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-847-0813
Alexandra Potter, PhD	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-847-6955
Richard A. Rawson, PhD	Professor of Psychiatry COBRE Co-Director, Collaboration/Dissemination Core Senior Advisor, Best Practices Core, UVM CORA	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio
Stacey C. Sigmon, PhD	Professor of Psychiatry COBRE Director, Behavioral Economics Core COBRE Core Co-Director, Collaboration/Dissemination TCORS Project PI Director, UVM Center on Rural Addiction (UVM CORA)	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-9987
Brian Sprague, PhD	VCBH Senior Epidemiologist Director of the Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System Registry PI, Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Professor, Department of Surgery Former VCBH COBRE Project Leader	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio	802-656-4112
Eric Thrailkill, PhD	VCBH COBRE Project Leader Assistant Professor, Psychology	Email \| PubMed \| CV \| Bio

**Biostatisticians**
Name	Title	Information	Phone
Gary J. Badger, MS	Biostatistician	Email	802-656-2526
Mike DeSarno, MS	Biostatistician	Email	802-656-2587
Joan Skelly, MS	Biostatistician	Email	802-656-0618

**COBRE & TCORS External Advisory Committee Members**
Name	Affiliation	Information
Warren Bickel, PhD (Chair, COBRE EAC; TCORS EAC)	Virginia Tech	Email \| PubMed
Neal L. Benowitz, MD (TCORS EAC)	University of California San Francisco	Email \| PubMed
Rick Bevins, PhD (COBRE EAC)	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	Email \| PubMed
Eric Donny, PhD (TCORS EAC)	Wake Forest University	Email \| PubMed
Leonard Epstein PhD (COBRE EAC)	University at Buffalo	Email \| PubMed
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD (TCORS EAC)	University of Minnesota	Email \| PubMed
Jack Henningfield, PhD (COBRE & TCORS EAC)	Pinney Associates	Email \| PubMed
Jennifer Tidey, PhD (COBRE EAC)	Brown University	Email \| PubMed

**VCBH External Consultants and Research Collaborators**
Name	Affiliation	Information
Dustin Lee, PhD	Johns Hopkins University	Email \| PubMed
Donald Shepard, PhD	Brandeis University	Email \| PubMed
Eric Slade, PhD	Johns Hopkins University	Email \| PubMed
Jennifer Tidey, PhD	Brown University	Email \| PubMed

**COBRE Internal Advisory Committee**
Name	Affiliation	Information
Mark E. Bouton, PhD	UVM Department of Psychology	Email \| PubMed
Christopher S. Francklyn, PhD	UVM Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Vermont Biomedical Research Network	Email \| PubMed
Charles G. Irvin, PhD	UVM Department of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics	Email \| PubMed
Polly E. Parsons, MD	UVM Department of Medicine	Email \| PubMed
Patricia A. Prelock, PhD	UVM Provost and Senior Vice President	Email \| PubMed

COBRE Community Advisory Committee
Name	Affiliation	Information
John R. Brooklyn, MD Family and Addiction Medicine	Community Health Centers of Burlington	Email
Megan Detweiler, BSN, RN, CARN Director of Nursing	Chittenden Clinic/Howard Center	Email
Mark Levine, MD Commissioner	Vermont Department of Health	Email
Rhonda Williams, MS Chronic Disease Prevention Chief	Vermont Department of Health	Email

Vermont Center on Behavior and Health

Faculty and Collaborators