Staff
Research Staff
Lee Ann Kaskutas, DrPH
Senior Scientist & Director of Training, Alcohol Research Group
Email: Phone: 510-597-3456
Education:
DrPH Behavioral Science, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
BS Mathematics and French, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Primary Research Area:
Non-professional solutions to public health problems, including mutual aid/ self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, peer support, social networks, community-based treatment, helping behaviors, spirituality, 12-step facilitation, and feedback about alcohol consumption. Methods include latent class growth curve modeling, ethnography, and scale development.
Current Projects:
- Developing a New Scale of Treatment Readiness (Co-Investigator)
- Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: National Alcohol Research Center (Associate Director/Director of Health Services Component)
- Gender Differences in Problem Drinking Trajectories (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- Impact of Services on Problem Drinking Trajectories (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- Life Course and Cost Trajectories of Alcohol Patients: a 15-year Study (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Graduate Research Training on Alcohol Problems (Principal Investigator)
Recently/Selected Completed Projects:
- Cost-effectiveness of HMO Residential & Outpatient Care (Principal Investigator)
- How Much Does She Drink? An HMO Intervention (Principal Investigator of Subcontract)
- Making Alcoholics Anonymous Easier: A Group TSF Approach (Principal Investigator)
Awards & Activities:
- Distinguished Academic Partner Award from School of Public Health, UC Berkeley (2008)
- R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from American Society of Addiction Medicine (2007)
- Young Investigator Award from Research Society on Alcoholism (1998)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
Selected Research Publications:
Kaskutas, L. A. (In Press) Alcoholics Anonymous effectiveness: faith meets science. J. Addict. Dis..
Kaskutas, L. A., Subbaraman, M., Witbrodt, J., & Zemore, S. E. (In Press) Effectiveness of Making Alcoholics Anonymous Easier (MAAEZ), a group format 12-step facilitation approach. J. Subst. Abuse Treat..
Kaskutas, L. A., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T. K., Witbrodt, J., & Bond, J. (2008) Epidemiology of Alcoholics Anonymous participation. Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spiritual Aspects of Addiction Recovery, 18, 261-82.
Kaskutas, L. A., Ammon, L. N., Delucchi, K., Room, R., Bond, J., & Weisner, C. (2005) Alcoholics Anonymous careers: patterns of AA involvement five years after treatment entry. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 29(11), 1983-90.
Kaskutas, L. A., Zhang, L., French, M. T., & Witbrodt, J (2005) Women's programs versus mixed-gender day treatment: results from a randomized study. Addiction, 100, 60-69.
Kaskutas, L. A., Witbrodt, J, French, M T (2004) Outcomes and costs of day hospital treatment and nonmedical day treatment for chemical dependency. J. Stud. Alcohol, 65(3), 371-82.
Kaskutas, L. A., Bond, J., Humphreys, K (2002) Social networks as mediators of the effect of Alcoholics Anonymous. Addiction, 97(7), 891-900.
Kaskutas, L. A. (1998) Hip and helpful: Alcoholics Anonymous in Marin County, California. Diversity in Unity: Studies of Alcoholics Anonymous in Eight Societies, 25-53.
Kaskutas, L. A. (1995) Interpretations of risk: the use of scientific information in the development of the alcohol warning label policy. Int. J. Addict., 30(12), 1519-48.
Kaskutas, L. A. (1994) What do women get out of self help? Reasons for attending Women for Sobriety and Alcoholics Anonymous. J. Subst. Abuse Treat., 11(3), 185-95.
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