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Master of Psychiatric
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Rumi Price, PhD, MPE
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Rumi Kato Price, Ph.D., M.P.E., is currently Research
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at
Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis,
MO, USA. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley, completed her post-doctoral fellowship and
subsequently joined the faculty in 1990 in the Department of
Psychiatry, WUSM.
She is one of the first two recipients of the MPE degrees and
currently Co-Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Pre- and Post-Doctoral Training Program in Comorbidity and
Biostatistics. She was a recipient of an Independent Scientist
Award from NIDA and has conducted several NIMH and NIDA studies
to date in the areas of psychiatric and substance abuse
epidemiology. Her study aims are expanding to include
human-genome epidemiology focusing on race/ethnicity and
substance use and abuse, and genetic-behavioral-social models of
post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse comorbidity.
Dr. Price is a native Japanese and has been collaborating with
researchers from the Japan National Institute of Mental Health
and Keio University. Among awards she has received includes a
Medical Products Regulatory Science General Research Promotion
award from the Nihon Koteisho Kyokai Foundation. Once an avid
essay writer in Japanese, she hopes to find more time to enjoy
fusion cooking and hot deep water bathing these days.
Rumi Kato Price, Ph.D., M.P.E. research areas:
1. Drug abuse and dependence
2. Human-genome epidemiology of substance use disorders
3. Psychiatric epidemiology with focus on post-traumatic stress
disorder and suicidality
4. Health disparity research on substance abuse with focus Asian
populations
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Director
Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH
Associate Director
Catherine Striley, PhD, MSW, ACSW, MPE
Faculty
Laura Bierut, MD
Kelly Botteron, MD
Kathleen K. Bucholz, PhD, MPE
C. Robert Cloninger, MD
Danielle Dick, PhD
Karen Dodson
Mehmet Dokucu, MD, PhD
Nuri B. Farber, MD
Anne Glowinski, MD, MPE
Julia Grant, PhD
Rick Gruzca, PhD, MPE
Gitry Heydebrand, PhD
Lee Hoffer, PhD, MPE
Barry Hong, PhD
Joan Luby, MD
Michael Lynskey, PhD
Pam Madden, PhD
Rosalind Neuman, PhD
Rumi Price, PhD, MPE
Lee N. Robins, PhD
Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD
Jeffery Scherrer, PhD
Edward Spitznagel, PhD
Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD
Melissa Swallow, MD
Richard Todd, MD, PhD
Richard Wetzel, PhD |
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group 
