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Cheryl J. Cherpitel,
Dr.P.H.
Background Information and
Areas of Research
ccherpitel@arg.org
Cheryl Cherpitel is associate
director of the National
Alcohol
Research
Center, a senior scientist at ARG, and an adjunct
professor at the University of California
at Berkeley’s
school of public health.
In November 2004 she was appointed to the National
Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (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 areas of interest and
expertise, both nationally and internationally, include: the
epidemiology of alcohol and casualties and violence-related injuries
in emergency room (ER) populations, the general population, and
coroner cases; the validity of self-reported alcohol consumption
based on breathalyzer readings in the ER; health services
utilization among ER patients; risk taking and risk curve analysis
of alcohol and injuries; drinking patterns and problems among
primary care populations; 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.
Selected Publications
- Cherpitel, Cheryl J. (1993). Alcohol and
injuries: A review of international emergency room studies. Addiction,
88, 923-937. (B552)
- Review of international emergency room
studies of all types of injuries, focusing on the importance of
probability samples in the ER.
- Cherpitel CJ. (1998). Differences in
performance of screening instruments for problem drinking among
Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in an emergency room population. Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, 59:420-426. (B748)
- The paper compares the performance of a
number of standard screening instruments among Black, Whites and
Hispanics in an emergency room population
- Cherpitel CJ. (1999). Screening for alcohol
problems in the U.S. general population: a comparison of the CAGE
and TWEAK by gender, ethnicity and service utilization. Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, 60:705-711. (B780)
- The performance of the CAGE and TWEAK
were compared within gender, ethnic, and service use (ER and primary
care) groups.
- Cherpitel CJ. (1999). Substance use, injury,
and risk-taking dispositions in the general population.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23:121-126. (B810)
- Alcohol and drug use are examined in
relation to risk taking/impulsivity and sensation seeking on injury.
- Cherpitel CJ. (1999). Gender, injury status
and acculturation differences in performance of screening
instruments for alcohol problems among U.S. Hispanic emergency
department patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence,
53:147-157. (B803)
- Evaluates the performance of a number of
standard screening instruments for alcohol problems among Hispanic
ER patients by gender and level of acculturation.
- Cherpitel CJ. (1999). Performance of
screening instruments for alcohol problems in a black primary care
population. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 11:54-60. (B849)
- Compares performance of screening
instruments by gender in a black primary care sample.
- Cherpitel CJ. (2000). A brief screening
instrument for problem drinking in the emergency room: the RAPS4. Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, 61:447-449. (B852)
- The sensitivity and specificity of a
4-item screener (RAPS4) taken from the 5-item Rapid Alcohol Problem
Screener are reported.
- Cherpitel, C. J. & Borges, G. (2000).
Screening instruments for alcohol problems: A comparison of cut
points between Mexican American and Mexican patients in the
emergency room. Substance Use and Misuse, 35(10):1419-1430.
(B871)
- Comparison between 1,511 ER patients in
Pachuca, Mexico and 586 Mexican American ER patients in Santa Clara,
California, of screening instruments for alcohol dependence and
harmful drinking/abuse.
- Cherpitel, C. J. & Tam, T. (2000).
Variables associated with DUI offender status among whites and
Mexican Americans. Journal of Studies on Alcohol,
61:698-703. (B874)
- DUI offender status (single vs.
multiple) were compared between whites and Mexican Americans in DUI
programs. No association was found between risk taking disposition
for either groups or for acculturation among Mexican Americans and
offender status.
- Cherpitel, C. J. & Borges, G. (2000).
Performance of screening instruments for alcohol problems in the ER:
a comparison of Mexican-Americans and Mexicans in Mexico. American
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 26(4):683-702. (B875)
- Comparison between 1,511 ER patients in
Pachuca, Mexico and 586 Mexican American ER patients in Santa Clara,
California, of screening instruments for alcohol dependence and
harmful drinking/abuse.
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Other ARG Publications of This Author
Grants Information
- Epidemiology
of Alcohol Problems, P30 AA05595
Alcohol
and Injury in Emergency Rooms in Poland, NIAAA R21 AA12889
Alcohol in
Mexican-Origin Groups: U.S. and Mexican Surveys, NIAAA R21 AA13739
Cross-national
Analysis of Alcohol and Injury, NIAAA R01 AA13750
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