Rev. 5/25/06
Key Dates in ARG and Center History
1959
Drs. Wendle Lipscomb and Genevieve Knupfer’s California Drinking
Practices Study, an NIMH grant to the California State Department of Health,
soon resides in new quarters in Berkeley under the aegis of the Mental Research
Institute of Palo Alto.
1968
Social Research Group,
led by Dr. Don Cahalan, affiliates itself with the above first as the West Coast
Division of the Social Research Group of George Washington University and then
as a unit within the School of Public Health of the University of California at
Berkeley.
1971
First ever issued NIAAA Training Grant (T01 AA000037, Graduate Training on
Correlates of Misuse of Alcohol, 1 Jul 1971 to 30 Jun 1974) is awarded to UC
Berkeley School of Public Health, with training activities sited at ARG.
Dr. Don Cahalan is PI.
1977
First ever NIAAA Center Grant (P50 AA003524-01, Social Epidemiology of Alcohol
Problems, 26 Sep 1977 to 30 Jun 1981) is awarded to ARG. Dr. Don Cahalan
is PI.
1979
Dr. Don Cahalan retires.
1980
Dr. Warren Winkelstein,
UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, becomes interim PI of the Center for
remaining period of Center grant.
Dr. Robin Room is new
Director of Social Research Group and Center Scientific Director.
1981
Newly renamed Alcohol
Research Group links with the Institutes of Medical Sciences of San Francisco,
renamed in 1982 as the Medical Research Institute of San Francisco.
[ARG is located in Berkeley as before, but administratively in the Institute for
Epidemiology and Behavioral Medicine of MRI, housed at Pacific Medical Center,
formerly of Stanford University. In 1983 PMC becomes Pacific Presbyterian
Medical Center, which in turn in 1991 becomes the California Pacific Medical
Center; MRI becomes CPMC Research Institute (CPMCRI).]
Second (and continuing) Center Grant, Social Epidemiology of Alcohol
Problems, P50 AA05595, 01 Jul, 1981 to 30 Nov, 1985; Dr. James H. Billings,
Medical Research Institute of San Francisco (Later California-Pacific Medical
Center Research Institute), is administratively designated institutional PI; Dr.
Robin Room is Center grant author and Scientific Director.
1984
Center Grant is renamed
Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems without change of grant number.
1985
Center Grant re-awarded
to 30 Nov 1990.
1987
Dr. Robin Room is
designated Center Grant PI.
1991
Center Grant is
re-awarded to 30 Nov 1995.
Dr. Robin Room is
appointed Vice President for Research at ARF (Ontario, Canada) and leaves ARG
Center.
1992
Dr. Robert Straus
becomes interim Center Grant PI; Dr. Connie Weisner is Scientific Director. Dr.
Tom Greenfield is Director of IEBM and ARG (1991-1992).
Dr. Raul Caetano is
appointed Center Director.
1994
ARG moves from CPMCRI to
the Western Consortium for Public Health.
1996
Center Grant is
re-awarded to 31 Dec 2000 (Dr. Raul Caetano, PI).
1997
ARG affiliates with the
Public Health Institute (PHI is a sister institution to WCPH, which terminates
activities).
1998
Dr. Raul Caetano leaves
ARG for the University of Texas, Houston at Dallas, School of Public Health,
where he is appointed Dean.
1999
Dr. Tom Greenfield is
appointed Center PI within ARG, within PHI.
2001
Center Grant is
re-awarded to 30 Dec 2005 (Dr. Tom Greenfield, PI); Dr. Greenfield becomes
director of ARG.
2005
Issue of 1,000th peer-reviewed ARG
publication (American Journal of Public Health)
2006
A P30 Center Core Grant, first for NIAAA, is awarded to ARG, within PHI, to 30 December
2010 (Dr. Tom Greenfield, PI).
ARG moves from Berkeley to a modern office building in adjacent Emeryville, overlooking San Francisco Bay.