Portland Alcohol Research Center Scientists

Directors

Dr Tamara Phillips

Tamara Phillips, Ph.D.

Center Director, Administrative Core Lead

Research Project P001 Lead

OHSU, VA Portland HCS

Kathy Grant

Kathleen Grant, Ph.D.

Center Scientific Director

Research Project P004 Lead

ONPRC, OHSU

Scientists

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Rita Cervera-Juanes, Ph.D.

Research Project P003 Co-Lead

ONPRC, OHSU (2021-2022)

Don Conrad, Ph.D.

Bioinformatics Core Lead

ONPRC, OHSU (2021-2023)

Verginia Cuzon Carlson, Ph.D.

Research Project P003 Lead

ONPRC, OHSU

Suzanne Fei, Ph.D.

Bioinformatics Core Lead

ONPRC, OHSU

Kathleen Grant, Ph.D.

Research Project P004 Lead

ONPRC, OHSU

Marina Guizzetti, Ph.D.

Research Project P002 Lead

VA Portland HCS, OHSU



Robert Hitzemann, Ph.D.

Research Project P001 Co-I

OHSU (2021-2023)

Suzanne Mitchell, Ph.D.

Information and Dissemination Core Lead

Animal & Resource Core Co-I

OHSU

Angela Ozburn, Ph.D. 

Research Project P001 Co-I

Research Project P002 Co-I

VA Portland HCS, OHSU

Tamara Phillips, Ph.D.

Center Director, Administrative Core Lead

Research Project P001 Lead

OHSU, VA Portland HCS



Cheryl Reed Williams, Ph.D.

Animal & Resource Core Lead

VA Portland HCS, OHSU

Robert Searles, Ph.D.

Animal & Resource Core Co-Lead

OHSU (2021-2023; currently a PARC consultant)

Lawrence Sherman, Ph.D.

Research Project P004 Co-I

ONPRC, OHSU

Portland Alcohol Research Center external Program Advisory Committee

Howard C. Becker, Ph.D.

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Director, Charleston Alcohol Research Center

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC

Amy W. Lasek, Ph.D.

Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA

Graeme Mason, Ph.D.

Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Psychiatry

Director, Metabolic Modeling

Director Psychiatric MRS, Magnetic Resonance Research Center

Yale University, New Haven CT

Abraham A. Palmer, Ph.D.

Professor, Psychiatry

Director, NIDA National Center of Excellence for Genetics, Genomics and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA

Donna M. Platt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson MS