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Jennifer Read

Professor of Psychology
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Substance abuse; intersection of trauma and substance abuse

Portrait of Jennifer Read.

Jennifer Read, a SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, is the director of UB’s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions. She is an internationally known authority on the causes and consequences of harmful drinking and substance abuse.

Read has more than 25 years of experience in the field of addiction sciences and has published more the 160 peer-reviewed articles and eight book chapters.

She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior and Cognitive Therapy who is currently the co-principal investigator of a $3 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to clinically test a novel intervention designed to reduce alcohol-involved sexual assault risk for college women.

CONTACT:

Jennifer Read, PhD
Professor of Psychology
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences

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