Team Members

Director

Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D.

Carlo DiClemente completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Rhode Island in 1978. He joined the faculty at UMBC as Professor of Psychology and Department Chair in 1995 after several years as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston and at the University of Texas Medical School and the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences. Dr. DiClemente's research examines the stages of the process of human intentional behavior change particularly as related to health and addictive behaviors. He is the co-developer of the Transtheoretical Model of change which has been used by researchers in the areas of cancer prevention, HIV risk reduction, dietary change, exercise, occupational safety, and rehabilitation of health and addictive behaviors. He has co-authored several books, The Transtheoretical Model and Changing for Good as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Dr. DiClemente serves as a consultant to a number of institutions and research projects and has an active grant funded program of research in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and at University of Maryland College Park, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, University of Houston and other institutions.

E-mail: diclemen@umbc.edu More details...

Associate Director of MDQuit

Janine Delahanty, Ph.D.

Janine Delahanty is the Associate Director of the Maryland Quitting Use and Initiation of Tobacco (MDQuit) Resource Center.  Please visit www.mdquit.org for more information.  She graduated in May of 2005 with a degree in Human Services Psychology (Behavioral Medicine Track) from UMBC.  Her interests include: substance use prevention and cessation, with an emphasis on smoking and other illicit drug use among adolescents.

E-mail: delahan1@umbc.edu

Research Assistant for MDQuit

Graduate Students

Michael Earley, M.Ed.

Michael is a second year student in the Human Services Psychology Program at UMBC. Michael received his BA in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2000 and completed his M.Ed. in 2002. Michael returns to graduate school after five years of high school teaching and three years of work in addiction, anxiety, and mood disorder research. Michael is interested in the co-morbidity of anxiety and substance abuse and the role of mindfulness in behavior change.

E-mail: earley1@umbc.edu

Miranda Garay, M.A.

Miranda Garay is a seventh year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. She is a 2003 graduate of the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). She is the HABITS Lab Coordinator and an MDQuit Center Specialist, actively involved in many of the ongoing lab projects. Her Master's Thesis was entitled Predictors of Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems in College Women: Affect Dysregulation and Alcohol Expectancies. Career goals include helping individuals living with mental illness and addiction.

E-mail: miranda5@umbc.edu

Preston Greene, B.S.

Preston is a fourth year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. He received his B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005, where he was involved in research focusing on the following areas: the relationship between community violence exposure, adolescent substance use, and coping mechanisms; and promoting healthy pregnancies among substance using women. He is currently working as a resource center specialist at the Maryland Resource Center for Quitting Use & Initiation of Tobacco (MDQuit) and is working on his master's thesis focusing on perceptions of self-efficacy as an individual mechanism of change during treatment for alcohol use disorders.

E-mail: greenep1@umbc.edu

Meredith Holmgren, M.A.

Meredith is a sixth year student in the Human Services Psychology Program at UMBC in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track. She has a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Before joining the HABITS lab, she conducted clinical interviews and cognitive testing at Massachusetts General Hospital for the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Department. Meredith completed a master's thesis on temptation, self-efficacy, and alcohol relapse. She is currently working on her dissertation, which addresses depressive symptoms, behavior change mechanisms, and drug use.

E-mail: meredith@umbc.edu

Angela Petersen, B.A.

Angela is a first year student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. She received a BA in Psychology from the University of Montana in 2007 where she participated in research focused on etiology of substance use disorders, substance abuse in sexual minority groups, and co-occurring disorders. Before returning to graduate school, she spent a year and a half working at Po’ailani Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center as the Intake Specialist responsible for assessing the appropriateness and eligibility of referrals for the program. Angela is interested in researching the behavioral mechanisms involved in the stages of change for persons with co-occurring disorders as well as developing appropriate treatment models for such diagnoses.

E-mail: angel13@umbc.edu

Dan Rounsaville, M.A.

Dan is a sixth year student in the Community/Clinical Psychology track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. He completed his Bachelor's Degree in psychology and philosophy at Haverford college in 2002. In the HABITS lab, he works on analyzing STOP, MATCH, and COMBINE data. Dan's Masters thesis examined the relationship between
psychological sense of community, spirituality, and time spent in treatment at a Christian based therapeutic community for homeless substance abusing men. He is currently working on his dissertation, which examines the relationship between lapse and relapse and proximal and distal factors in Project MATCH.

E-mail: danielr1@umbc.edu

Kristina Schumann, M.A.

Kris is a third year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. She received a Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2002 and a Master's degree in psychology from American University in 2006. Before returning to graduate school she worked as a Research Coordinator on a study investigating weight loss in Type II diabetics in the Diabetes Treatment and Research Center as Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In the HABITS lab, she works on a project exploring personal change mechanisms in modifying drinking behavior. Kris is currently researching chronic illness and behavior change and is particularly interested in the psychosocial components of diabetes self-management.

E-mail:kschu1@umbc.edu

Onna Van Orden, B.A.

Onna is a fourth year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. She received a Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Florida in 2005. Her research experience is in the areas of clinical, cognitive, and experimental psychology, specifically alcohol expectancies, visual cognition, and psycholinguistics. Onna is currently a graduate assistant with the HIV/AIDS Community Collaborative project funded by the Maryland Infectious Diseases and Environmental Health Agency (IDEHA). Her master's thesis research concerns differences between daily and nondaily smokers on variables within the Transtheoretical Model of Intentional Behavior Change.

E-mail: onnav1@umbc.edu

Katherine Wright, B.A.

Katie is a second year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC.  She received a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2004.  In the four years before graduate school, she worked in learning, memory, and emotion research at a neuropsychology lab in the NIMH and later, worked in schizophrenia and addiction research, coordinating collaborative projects between the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and NIDA.  Now she works on Project ACTION in the HABITS lab, a study exploring personal change mechanisms in modifying drinking behavior. She is focusing on the role of impulsivity in posttreatment relapse rates among alcoholics for her master’s thesis research.

E-mail: wright6@umbc.edu 

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