About Us
Leadership
- Dominique Lampert, MSPH
- Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD
- Cheryl J. Cherpitel, Dr.PH
- Lee Ann Kaskutas, Dr.PH
Dominique Lampert, MSPH, is the Executive Director of the Alcohol Research Group (ARG). She also handles all financial management of research grants and research center accounts for ARG. Ms. Lampert has a long career in public health research, including coordination of a major urban health study at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles. At the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, she worked on numerous health services-related research projects. For over fifteen years, she has been involved in both pre and post award grant management at a number of institutes, including the Division of Research, the Oregon Health Sciences University, and at the Public Health Institute/ARG. Ms. Lampert received her masters of science in public health (epidemiology) from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health and is a member of the Society of Research Administrators.
Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD, is the scientific director of ARG and a senior scientist. He also serves as the Center Director of the National Alcohol Research Center, one of 18 now funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). In addition, Greenfield serves as a clinical faculty member of the clinical services research training program at the University of California San Francisco's department of psychiatry.
Greenfield received his PhD in clinical psychology from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He conducted research for eight years at Washington State University, then served as Associate Director for Research at the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems before coming to ARG. He has served as vice president and secretary of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Study of Alcohol. For NIAAA he served on the Initial Review Group on Health Services Research (AA2) and currently serves on NIAAA's Extramural Advisory Board. In November 2008 he received the ATOD Section of the American Public Health Association's Leadership Award, and also serves on the Governing Council of APHA.
With regard to research, he oversees the Center's 5-year National Alcohol Surveys (NAS) and serves as Principal Investigator for several grants associated with the NAS. Greenfield's other research interests include: the epidemiology of alcohol use and problems, alcohol policy studies, consumer satisfaction, drinking patterns and mortality, and services research.
Cheryl J. Cherpitel, Dr.PH, is Associate Director of the National Alcohol Research Center and a senior scientist at ARG, and an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health.
Between November 2004 and 2008 she served on NIAAA's National Advisory Council. In addition, she has served as a consultant for the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization. She has also served on the Initial Review Group of the NIAAA's Clinical and Treatment Subcommittee.
Cherpitel's research areas of interest include: alcohol-related casualties and violence-related injuries in emergency room (ER) populations; the validity of self-reported alcohol consumption based on breathalyzer readings in the ER; and screening for alcohol problems in health care settings and in the general population.
Cherpitel holds a bachelor's in nursing from the University of California at San Francisco and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health.
Lee Ann Kaskutas, Dr.PH, is also an Associate Director and Director and the Principal Investigator of the NIAAA Training Grant "Graduate Research Training on Alcohol Problems" at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She currently serves on the Initial Review Group on Clinical, Treatment and Health Services Research Review Subcommittee(AA-3) at NIAAA.
Kaskutas' projects focus on solutions to public health problems that do not require professionally trained individuals for implementation. One such project is a study of the social model approach to substance abuse recovery.
In spring 2008, Kaskutas received the Distinguished Academic Partner Award from the School of Public Health at the University of California. At the American Society of Addiction Medicine Medical Scientific Conference (2007), the society honored her with the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award for her contributions to the field of addiction medicine. She also received the Research Society on Alcoholism's Young Investigator Award in 1998.
Kaskutas holds a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
