Kate B. Carey has recently joined the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. She also holds an appointment as Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Program in Public Health. Dr. Carey earned her PhD at Vanderbilt University and completed a post-doctoral training year at the Miriam Hospital in 1986. Dr. Carey returns to CAAS after a long tenure at Syracuse University, where she was a Senior Scientist in the Center for Health and Behavior, Professor of Psychology, and Dean's Professor of the Sciences. Dr. Carey contributed actively to graduate training, mentoring 11 Clinical Psychology PhD students (and counting); she also served as Admissions Coordinator. Dr. Carey enjoys the mentoring process and will continue in that role in both the CAAS Postdoctoral Training Programs and the Program in Public Health.
Dr. Carey brings an active program of research. She enjoys conducting RCTs designed to evaluate alcohol abuse prevention interventions in a variety of at-risk populations, and testing hypotheses about mediating variables and identifying moderators of intervention efficacy. Other interests include adapting motivation-enhancing interventions across health behaviors and populations, and the co-ocurrence and functional relatedness of multiple health risk behaviors in adolescents and adults. She is launching a new RCT that focuses on maintenance of risk reduction over time after individuals receive a brief motivational intervention; participants will be at-risk students recruited at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She also plans to continue to collaborate with her husband and colleague, Michael Carey, and Lori Scott-Sheldon, both of whom have joined the Brown community at the Miriam Hospital Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. She and Drs. Carey and Scott-Sheldon work together on several ongoing projects including exploring the impact of alcohol use on HIV risk behaviors, evaluating community-and individual-level interventions on sexual risk behaviors of men in South Africa, and using meta-analytic methods to characterize the efficacy of brief interventions for young adult drinkers. She also maintains active collaborations with CAAS faculty Brian Borsari and Nancy Barnett and looks forward to the synergies to come with other addictions colleagues at CAAS.