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

Francoise Jean-Louis, B.S.

Francoise Jean-Louis graduated from UMBC in 2007 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology and a Minor in Biology.  She currently attends Towson University where she is working on a Master’s of Science in Community Health Education.  Her specific interests include adolescent behavioral change focusing on safe sexual practices and eating disorders. Francoise recently joined that Habits lab as a Research Assistant and also serves as the Center Coordinator for the MDQuit Tobacco Resource Center.

E-mail: fjeanl1@umbc.edu

Graduate Students

Michael Earley, M.Ed.

Michael is a first 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 sixth 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 third-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, B.A.

Meredith is a fifth 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 is interested in the relationship between substance abuse and psychopathology. She is currently researching mechanisms of alcohol relapse.

E-mail: meredith@umbc.edu

 

Brian Kiluk, M.A.

Brian is a sixth year graduate student in the Clinical/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology Ph.D. program at UMBC. He received his Bachelor's Degree with honors from the State University of New York at Albany in 2000, and completed his Master's degree in 2006, which examined the relationship between physical activity and body dissatisfaction. His dissertation topic is focused on the factorial equivalence of various Transtheoretical Model (TTM) assessment measures using data from Project MATCH. Brian currently lives in Connecticut, where he works as a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.  He will be starting his pre-doctoral clinical internship at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in September 2008.

E-mail: bkiluk1@umbc.edu

 

Dan Rounsaville, M.A.

Dan is a fifth 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

Debra Schlundt Malfi, M.A.

Debra is a seventh year student in the Clinical Psychology/Behavioral Medicine track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in psychology and sociology at Towson University in 2002. Debra’s masters thesis explored predictors of attribution to alcohol for injuries in shock trauma patients. In the HABITS lab, she works as a center specialist for the MDQuit Tobacco Resource Center and maintains the HABITS lab website. She is currently working on her dissertation which is examining predictors of substance abuse treatment engagement and will be on her pre-doctoral internship at Springfield Hospital Center beginning in September.

E-mail: dschlu1@umbc.edu

 

Kristina Schumann, M.A.

Kris 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 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 motivational subtypes and exploring their relations with behavior change
variables and drinking behavior.

E-mail:kschu1@umbc.edu

Onna Van Orden, B.A.

Onna 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 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 working on the Maryland Resource Center for Quitting Use & Initiation of Tobacco (MDQuit) team and the Maryland Statewide Youth & College Tobacco-Free Initiatives with the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.  Her master's thesis research concerns differences between daily and non-daily smokers on variables within the Transtheoretical Model of Intentional Behavior Change.

E-mail: onnav1@umbc.edu

Jade Wolfman, M.A.

Jade is a sixth year graduate student in the Clinical/Community-Social Psychology track of the Human Services Psychology program at UMBC.  Jade received a Bachelors degree from the State University of New York at Albany in 2003.  Jade's Masters thesis focused on the relationships among religiosity, depression, and substance use for African American
adolescents.  For her dissertation, Jade will be examining social predictors of treatment retention in a faith-based therapeutic community. Jade is currently on her pre-doctoral clinical internship at the VA Maryland Health Care System.

Email: ja1@umbc.edu

Katherine Wright, B.A.

Katie is a first year student in the Human Services Psychology Program at UMBC. She received her BA in Neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2004 and worked for two years in a neuropsychology lab at the NIMH. Following her time at NIMH, she spent two years at the University of Maryland and NIDA working on schizophrenia and addiction research. Katie is interested in studying behavioral interventions for co-occurring substance abuse and severe mental illness.

E-mail: wright6@umbc.edu 

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