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