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Thomas K. Greenfield, Ph.D.
tgreenfield@arg.org
Background Information and
Areas of Research
Tom Greenfield is a senior
scientist and the scientific director of
ARG.
He also directs ARG's
National
Alcohol
Research
Center.
In addition, Greenfield serves as an adjunct clinical faculty member of
the clinical services research training program at the
University
of California at San Francisco’s department of psychiatry.
His research interests include: the epidemiology of alcohol use and
problems, alcohol policy studies, consumer satisfaction, national
alcohol surveys and consumption measurement, drinking patterns and
mortality, and services research. His responsibilities include
overseeing ARG's national alcohol surveys, which are sponsored by
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and
conducted every five years.
Earlier projects for which he served as principal investigator
include: a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study on the alcohol
policy development process in the United States; NIAAA-funded
studies of ethnic and social influences on alcohol mortality (a
precursor to the present mortality grant); a study of malt liquor
and fortified wine use; a comparison of drinking patterns and
problems between the United States and Mexico; and a seven-year
national evaluation of the alcohol container warning labels.
He also conducted a controlled outcome study for
California
and the Center for Mental Health Services of a consumer-run
alternative to hospitalization for people in crisis with serious
mental illness.
After eight years of research and practice at
Washington
State
University
and before coming to ARG in 1991, he served as associate director
for research at the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol
and Other Drug Problems. He has served as vice president and
secretary of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological
Study of Alcohol and currently serves on the Extramural Advisory
Board of the NIAAA.
Following degrees in astronomy and space science,
Greenfield
earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the
University of Michigan.
He grew up in Zimbabwe
and lives in Oakland
with his wife, a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business;
they have an adult son.
Selected Publications
- Greenfield, Thomas K. & Kaskutas, Lee
Ann. (1998). Five years’ exposure to alcohol warning label
messages and their impacts: evidence from diffusion analysis. Applied
Behavioral Science Review, 6(1), 39-68. (B796)
- Uses diffusion theory and course fitting
to model the penetration of warning label awareness and message
recall, as well as the time curve of response to two behaviors
associated with message recall. This paper uses 1989-1994 Warning
Labels cross-sectional samples and curve fitting techniques to study
label awareness and label message recall from a diffusion-theoretic
perspective, also examining conversations and precautionary behavior
related to recall of the drunk driving and pregnancy messages.
Presented at the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Francisco, July
19-24, 1997.
Greenfield, Thomas K. & Rogers, John D. (1999). Who drinks most
of the alcohol in the U.S.? The policy implications. Journal of
Studies on Alcohol, 60(1), 78-89. (B762)
- Uses pooled warning label U.S. 1989-1993
survey, and 1990 NAS8, to study the concentration of drinking in the
US. Explores the implications for prevention and treatment policy.
- Greenfield, Thomas K. & Rogers, John D.
(1999). Alcoholic beverage choice, risk perception, and
self-reported drunk driving: effects of measurement on risk
analysis. Addiction, 94(11), 1735-1743. (B847)
- Uses data from 1,260 adult drivers from
1995 NAS (N9). Consumption of three beverage types is examined in
relation to frequency of drink driving, controlling for demographics
and perceived risks.
Greenfield, Thomas K. & Attkisson, C. Clifford. (1999). The UCSF
Client Satisfaction Scales: II. The Service Satisfaction Scale-30.
In: Mark Maruish (Eds.), The Use of Psychological Testing for
Treatment Planning & Outcome Assessment (pp. 1347-1367,
Chapter 44). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (B830)
- Reviews consumer satisfaction results
and norms of the SSS-30 in mental health and substance abuse
programs and updates SSS-30 psychometric information in B579.
Greenfield, Thomas K.; Midanik, Lorraine T. & Rogers, John D.
(2000). A ten-year national trend study of alcohol consumption
1984-1995: is the period of declining drinking over? American
Journal of Public Health, 90(1), 47-52. (B854)
- Examines time-trends in several measures
of alcohol consumption to N7, N8, and N9; investigates shifts within
demographic subgroups.
Greenfield, Thomas K.; Midanik, Lorraine T. & Rogers, John D.
(2000). Effects of telephone versus face-to-face interview modes on
reports of alcohol consumption. Addiction, 95(2), 227-284.
(B856)
Compares volume, frequency and proportion
of heavy drinking measures based on graduated frequency items in two
surveys by telephone (Warning Labels 1990) and in person 1990 NAS
(N8).
- Greenfield, Thomas K. (2000). Ways of
measuring drinking patterns and the difference they make: Experience
with graduated frequencies. Journal of Substance Abuse, 12,
1-17. (B889).
- This paper reviews several measures that
have been developed at the ARG to assess frequencies of drinking in
a graduated series of quantity intervals.
Greenfield, Thomas K. (2001). Individual risk of alcohol-related
disease and problems. In: Nick Heather, Timothy J. Peters, &
Timothy Stockwell (Eds.), International Handbook on Alcohol
Problems and Dependence New York: John Wiley. (B850)
- The chapter reviews individual-level
relationship between drinking patterns and health and social
problems including alcohol dependence.
Rehm, Jürgen; Greenfield, Thomas K. &
Rogers, John D. (2001). Average volume of alcohol consumption, patterns
of drinking and all-cause mortality. Results from the U.S. National
Alcohol Survey. American Journal of Epidemiology, 153, 64-71. (B886).
Investigates the influence of pattern of
drinking and ethnicity for males and females from the 1984 NAS (N8)
followed up using the National Death Index to assess 11-year mortality
(as of December 1995). Volume of alcohol consumption, patterns of
drinking and all-cause mortality.
Greenfield, Thomas K.; Rehm, J. & Rogers, J. D.
(2002). Effects of depression and social integration on the relationship
between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. Addiction
97(1): 29-38. (B925).
Investigates
the potentially confounding influences of depression and social
integration on the relationship between pattern of drinking and
mortality for males and females from the 1984 NAS (N8) followed up
using the National Death Index to assess 11-year mortality (as of
December 1995).
Other ARG Publications of This Author
Grants Information
- Alcohol in
Mexican-Origin Groups: U.S. and Mexican Surveys, NIAAA R21 AA13739, Principal Investigator:
Marjorie J. Robertson, Ph.D., Co-Investigators: Thomas K.
Greenfield, Ph.D. (ARG), Cheryl J. Cherpitel, Dr.P.H. (ARG) &
Maria Elena Medina Mora, Ph.D. (National Institute of Psychiatry,
National Institutes of Health, Mexico City, Mexico).
Epidemiology
of Alcohol Problems, NIAAA P30 AA05595, Principal
Investigator/Director: Thomas K. Greenfield, Ph.D.
Improving
Alcohol Consumption Self-report Measurement, NIAAA R01 AA013309, Principle Investigator: Thomas. K.
Greenfield, Ph.D.
Population
Drinking Patterns & HIV Risk in Goa, India, NIAAA R21 AA014773,
Principal Investigator: Thomas K. Greenfield, Ph.D.
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