This is a new application for a Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award (K05). The applicant, Michael Windle, Rollins Endowed Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education (BSHE) at Emory University, proposes to provide mentoring to three outstanding tenure-track faculty members. Two of the applicants to be mentored are assistant professors in BSHE, and the third is from a nearby university and has been mentored by the applicant for the last three-years. All three of these mentees have excellent publication records, have published studies on alcohol and other substance use, have demonstrated interest in pursuing NIAAA R01 awards, and none has received funding at the R01 level. Two of the mentees currently have K01 awards. All three mentees have an interest in developing further their knowledge of alcohol studies, the use of advanced longitudinal statistical methods in their research, and the incorporation gene-environment (GE) relations as they prepare NIH applications. For all applicants, mentoring goals involve providing guidance and support with respect to writing competitive grant proposals, further developing the mentees'research programs, and a further focus on more general professional development, including working with mentees on their own effectiveness as mentors to graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. With respect to his Research Plan, the applicant proposes to continue to pursue a research program that applies a lifespan developmental psychopathology perspective in alcohol studies with particular emphasis on understanding stability and change in alcohol use and alcohol disorders across the lifespan (e.g., changes associated with transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood to young adulthood;changes from middle-age to older adulthood), transitions in drinking status across time (e.g., light drinker to heavy drinker;heavy drinker to light drinker or abstainer), and the tme invariant and time-varying risk and protective predictors of these changes across the life course. Using several existing and ongoing longitudinal data sets, the applicant proposes to continue research on the developmental- etiologic factors that influence alcohol phenotypes across time and for different racial/ethnic groups. Specific emphasis is focused on the analyses of prospective panel data and GE relations that provide novel opportunities to study prominent developmental processes related to alcohol phenotypes in a highly refined and nuanced way that incorporates both G and E factors and their interactions as they unfold across time. Alcohol prevention programs for public health are best guided by models that ncorporate the time-changing, multiplicity of genetic (G), environmental (E) factors that underlie the etiology and time-course of alcohol misuse and alcohol disorders. A new generation of mentored scientists with the necessary skills to conduct such analyses could rapidly advance the alcohol studies field and greatly facilitate efforts to reduce underage drinking and associated adverse health consequences across the lifespan.

Public Health Relevance

Epidemiologic findings with national samples have indicated that the peak period of alcohol dependence is during late adolescence-early young adulthood (ages 18-22). These findings have resulted in a revision of conceptual models of alcohol use and alcohol disorders away from soley reductionistic models (e.g., physiological determinants) toward developmental, multilevel models. This K05 application proposes to use multiple longitudinal datasets to examine multilevel influences, including gene-environment interactions, to study stability and change in alcohol use and alcohol disorders across the lifespan.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Research Scientist Award (K05)
Project #
5K05AA021143-02
Application #
8541685
Study Section
Health Services Research Review Subcommittee (AA)
Program Officer
Ruffin, Beverly
Project Start
2012-09-10
Project End
2017-08-31
Budget Start
2013-09-01
Budget End
2014-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2013
Total Cost
$191,046
Indirect Cost
$14,152
Name
Emory University
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
066469933
City
Atlanta
State
GA
Country
United States
Zip Code
30322
Windle, Michael; Windle, Rebecca C (2018) Parental Divorce and Family History of Alcohol Disorder: Associations with Young Adults' Alcohol Problems, Marijuana Use, and Interpersonal Relations. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 42:1084-1095
Windle, Rebecca C; Windle, Michael (2018) Adolescent precursors of young adult drinking motives. Addict Behav 82:151-157
Barton, Allen W; Brody, Gene H; Zapolski, Tamika C B et al. (2018) Trajectory classes of cannabis use and heavy drinking among rural African American adolescents: multi-level predictors of class membership. Addiction 113:1439-1449
Hanson, Jamie L; Gillmore, Alysha D; Yu, Tianyi et al. (2018) A Family Focused Intervention Influences Hippocampal-Prefrontal Connectivity Through Gains in Self-Regulation. Child Dev :
Windle, Michael; Haardörfer, Regine; Getachew, Beth et al. (2018) A multivariate analysis of adverse childhood experiences and health behaviors and outcomes among college students. J Am Coll Health 66:246-251
Windle, Michael; Gray, Joshua C; Lei, Karlo Mankit et al. (2018) Age sensitive associations of adolescent substance use with amygdalar, ventral striatum, and frontal volumes in young adulthood. Drug Alcohol Depend 186:94-101
Windle, Michael; Windle, Rebecca C (2018) A prospective study of mutual influence for substance use among young adult marital dyads. Psychol Addict Behav 32:237-243
Windle, Michael; Windle, Rebecca C (2017) The Measurement of Adolescent Alcohol Problems via Item Response Theory and Their 15-Year Prospective Associations with Alcohol and Other Psychiatric Disorders. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 41:399-406
Windle, Michael; Haardörfer, Regine; Lloyd, Steven A et al. (2017) Social Influences on College Student Use of Tobacco Products, Alcohol, and Marijuana. Subst Use Misuse 52:1111-1119
Windle, Michael (2016) Drinking Over the Lifespan: Focus on Early Adolescents and Youth. Alcohol Res 38:95-101

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