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Lawrence M. Scheier, Ph.D.


Lawrence M. Scheier, Ph.D. is Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Dr. Scheier is also President of
LARS Research Institute, a Nevada-based non-profit company offering a full
line of services in program development, evaluation, technology transfer,
and health promotion especially among youthful populations. Dr. Scheier
received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1988,
completed an NIAAA postdoctoral fellowship at the Alcohol Research Group,
University of California, Berkeley, and also an NIMH postdoctoral
fellowship in developmental studies at the Polisher Research Institute,
Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Scheier has used his training and methodological expertise to work with a
variety of groups developing longitudinal models of health, drug etiology
and drug consequences and he has published with noted luminaries in the
drug abuse field including Drs. Peter Bentler, Michael Newcomb, Denise
Kandel, Linda Cottler, and Gilbert Botvin.
Dr. Scheier has been a Principal Investigator on several federally funded
grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, specifically emphasizing
evaluation of school-based drug abuse prevention programs, longitudinal
studies of adolescent drug etiology and drug consequences, and more
recently studies of social cognition and identity formation in multiracial
youth. His particular interest rests with studies of cognitive efficacy,
mastery, and control in an effort to determine whether drug use disrupts
development and has deleterious consequences on young adult functioning.
Dr. Scheier is well versed in causal modeling techniques, growth curve
analysis, and multivariate statistical methods for application in
developmental health studies. Dr. Scheier is currently a member of the
editorial board of four prominent drug studies journals including the
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Journal of Drug Education, Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, and Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance
Abuse. Dr. Scheier has participated as a reviewer for NIAAA, NIMH, and
NIDA and most recently was a member of a NIH special emphasis panel
emphasizing prevention methodology (Social Sciences, Nursing,
Epidemiology, and Methods Integrated Review Group [SNEM-1]) and NIDA-K for
training and career research awards. Currently, Dr. Scheier also reviews
for CSAP and SAMHSA as part of the National Registry of Effective
Prevention Programs, where he customarily reviews mental health, HIV, drug
use, and violence prevention programs with target populations across the
lifespan. Dr. Scheier is married to a physician and has two teenage
children. He enjoys cycling, swimming, outdoor hiking, competes in
triathlons, and writes a sports psychology column for the GOAL Nevada
soccer magazine.
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Faculty
Dr. Linda Cottler
Dr. Lee Hoffer
Dr. Lawrence Scheier
Dr. Catherine Striley
Staff
Arbi Ben Abdallah
Susan Bradford
Sue Busse
Jennifer Byers
Dr. Catina Callahan
Sandra Halliburton
Amy
Hepler
Rachel Jacobs
Dr. Kit-Sang Leung
Tamara Millay
Erin Murdock
Fellana Randall
Dionna Roberts
Pamela Trangenstein
Lisa
Wines
Jane Works-Conte
Trainees
Monica Bishop, MD
Carmen Curtis, PhD
Ellen Edens, MD
Daniel Mamah, MD
Catharine Mennes, PhD
Lisa Merlo, PhD
Prasanthi Nattala, PhD
Victoria Osborne, MSW
Veena Satyanarayana, PhD
Enbal Shacham, PhD
Matthew Smith, PhD
Chiquitia Welch, PhD
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