EDAR Mentors

The EDAR Faculty Mentoring Team is comprised of faculty at institutions across the country. EDAR mentors have expertise in alcohol research, leadership, and psychology pre- and post-doctoral training. Together, they have decades of combined expertise evaluating and interviewing candidates for psychology and other mental health training programs. In the EDAR program, mentors provide individual guidance to trainees on professional development, internship and fellowship/faculty application materials, development of interview skills, and developing their own skills to become near-peer mentors. EDAR mentors and trainees also collaborate together in Year 2 on a trainee-led research project for submission to the annual RSA meeting.

All of our faculty mentors are described below, and those with availability to work with our incoming cohort are identified:

Cassie Boness, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Boness is a licensed clinical psychologist and Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions (CASAA).

Kathryn Bottonari, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Bottonari is a clinical psychologist at the Ralph H. Johnson VAMC and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC. 

Gloria Cain, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Cain is an Assistant Professor with the Howard University School of Social Work. 

Jessica Cronce, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Cronce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services at the University of Oregon and Director of the Counseling Psychology Center within the HEDCO Clinic.

Melissa Cyders, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Cyders is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training at the Indiana University - Indianapolis PhD program in Clinical Psychology.

Elizabeth D'Amico, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. D'Amico is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, an Adjunct Professor at UCLA, and a licensed clinical psychologist. 

Sarah Dauber, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Dauber is Vice President of Clinical Research and Quality Improvement and the director of the Science and Technology of Early Prevention research at Partnership to End Addiction. 

Angelo M. DiBello, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. DiBello is an Assistant Professor in the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies and the Applied Psychology Department of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brown University, and the Director of the Social Health Addiction & Relationship Processes (SHARP) Laboratory at Rutgers University. 

Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Feldstein Ewing is a clinical psychologist and the James Prochaska Endowed Professor of Population Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island.

Sherecce Fields, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Fields is a Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University. 

Alan Francis, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Francis is a tenure track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Undergraduate Medical Education Co-Director at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Joshua Gray, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Joshua Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Psychology at Uniformed Services University and a licensed clinical psychologist. 

Erica Grodin, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Grodin is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles.

Rachel Gunn, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Gunn is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University.

Christian Hendershot, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Hendershot is Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Director of Clinical Research, Institute for Addiction Science, in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Cathryn Glanton Holzhauer, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Holzhauer is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Research Psychologist at the VA Central Western Massachusetts (VACWM).

Traci Kennedy, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Ben Lewis, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Lewis is an assistant professor at the University of Florida.

Cristina Lopez, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Lopez is an Associate Professor and clinical psychologist with a dual appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Nursing at MUSC. 

Aqilah McCane, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. McCane is an Assistant Professor at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in the Division of Neuroscience.

Ethan Mereish, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Ethan Mereish is an Associate Professor, licensed psychologist, and the director of the Lavender Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mary Beth Miller, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Miller is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri.

Robert Miranda, Jr., Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Miranda is a clinical psychologist and accomplished alcohol researcher and mentor.

Antonio Morgan-Lopez, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Morgan-Lopez is a quantitative psychologist and Senior Fellow within the Health Practice Area at RTI International.

Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Orengo-Aguayo is an Assistant Professor and bilingual clinical psychologist at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC.

Megan Patrick, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Patrick is a Research Professor for the Institute for Social Research and Associate Director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. 

Sarah L. Pedersen, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Pedersen is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kimberly Raab-Graham, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Raab-Graham is a professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University. 

Lara Ray, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Ray is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. 

Joseph Schacht, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Schacht is an Associate Professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Division of Addiction Science, Prevention, and Treatment of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Translational Addiction Imaging Laboratory.

Amelia Talley, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Talley is a social-personality psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University.

Rachel Tomko, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

 

Dr. Tomko is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Addiction Sciences Division of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC.

Christine Walther, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Walther is a Professor of Psychology and program director for the Psychology MS at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. 

Frances Wang, Ph.D.

Taking Trainees for Fall 2024

Dr. Wang is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Sylia Wilson, Ph.D.

Unavailable for Mentorship in Fall 2024

 

Dr. Wilson is an Associate Professor and McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Director of the Fam CAN Lab at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development.