Collaborators

Affective and Biological Underpinnings of Substance Use and Anxiety (ABUSA) Lab

The REHAB lab works closesly with Dr. Teresa Leyro and the ABUSA lab team. In the ABUSA lab, they seek to identify underlying vulnerabilities that place individuals at risk for co-occuring anxiety pathology and substance use disorders, and/or may serve to maintain associated dysfunction. It is their belief that psychological interventions should be integrative, thus understanding risk factors for anxiety and substance use through a multi-method approach, utilizing a combination of self-report, behavioral, and psychophysiolgical methods can help them towards their end goal to develop targeted interventions to help improve both health and mental health outcomes for this difficult to treat population.  

Addiction Health Behavior Center (AHBC)

Dr. Farris, along with Dr. Leyro from the Affective Biological Underpinnings of Substance Use and Anxiety Lab (ABUSA)  at Rutgers University, co-direct the Addiction Health Behavior Center.

Our research is committed to improving the physical and mental health of different substance users. The Addiction Health Behavior Center conducts experimental and treatment research in clinical and health psychology from a "Mind-Body" perspective. Broadly, our research aims to understand why and how certain psychological symptoms and conditions, like anxiety and stress, influence health risk behaviors and chronic disease. The AHBC is easily accesible to mass transit, including buses, trains, and the clinical academic building of the medical school.

Below are some of our additional recent and frequent collaborators.

Ana M. Abrantes, Ph.D. Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Associate Director of the Behavioral Medicine and Addictions Research Unit at Butler Hospital.

Brandon L. Alderman, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Rutgers University, and Director of the Rutgers Exercise Psychophysiology Lab.

Elizabeth R. Aston, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University School of Public Health.

Dale S. Bond, Ph.D. Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and at The Miriam Hospital Center for Weight Control and Diabetes Prevention.

Lynn P. Clemow, Ph.D., ABPP Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Medicine (Research Division) and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Rutgers Medical School.

Angelo M. DiBello, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at CUNY Brooklyn College, Adjuct Assistant Professor at Brown University, and Director of the Social Health Addiction and Relationship Processes (SHARP) Laboratory at Brooklyn College. 

Jane Metrik, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Michael Otto, Ph.D. Professor of Psychological and Brain Science and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy at Boston University.

Dinesh Singal, M.D., F.A.C.C. Board-certified cardiologist and Director of the Cardio-Metabolic Institute (CMI) and Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in Somerset, New Jersey.

Wen-Cheh Wu, M.D., M.P.H. Board-certified cardiologist, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Brown Medical School, Medical Director of The Miriam Hospital Center for Cardiac Fitness, and Director of the Lifespan Cardiovascular Wellness and Prevention Center at Miriam, Newport, and Rhode Island Hospitals

Michael J. Zvolensky, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston and Director of the Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory/Substance Use Treatment Clinic.