CoARS Directory
CoARS participation happens in a myriad of ways. The CoARS Steering Committee guides the overall direction and facilitates communication across CoARS. It is comprised of representatives from each Workgroup and Member Project.
The lifeblood of CoARS are the people who participate: in workgroups, in attending the Showcase Series, by sharing thoughts and ideas via our listserv, and more. Everyone — regardless of CoARS membership — is welcome to participate.
Reach out to any and all of us with questions, ideas and/or news you may have!
Listed below are the people who participate in CoARS. To add your contact information to the list, please complete this form.
To remove your contact information from this list, please use this link.
Please note: This directory is a new tool that we are in the process of adding (launched on April 15, 2026). The goal of the Directory is to help CoARS participants network among each other. Stay tuned for updates, as we update this Directory.
Evan Ames, M.A., (Hear my name)
Clinical Research Supervisor, Brown University Health, Division of General Internal Medicine - Research
Keywords: substance use disorder, digital health, loneliness, loved ones
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Victoria Barreira, B.A., (hear my name)
Clinical Research Specialist, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Justin R. Beattey, CPRC, ICPR, CADAC II, ICADC, CSPR-PR/CL, MATS, BCPG, (hear my name)
Vice President, Accreditation and Certification, Mental Health America of Indiana (MHAI), Executive Director, ICAADA
Keywords: Peer recovery support services, addiction, substance use disorder, justice involvement, leadership
Brandon Bergman, Ph.D., (hear my name)
Associate Director, Recovery Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Keywords: Emerging adulthood, Recovery support services, Social technologies
Elizabeth Bowen, Ph.D., LCSW (Hear my name)
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
Keywords: recovery capital, alcohol, social determinants of health, social work, measurement development
Alicia Bunger, Ph.D., MSW
Professor, Ohio State University
Keywords: Implementation, child welfare, peer recovery support, behavioral health
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Sierra Castedo de Martell, Ph.D., MPH (Hear my name)
Senior Researcher,The Phoenix
Keywords: economic evaluation, peer-driven recovery support, peer workers, recovery support services, collegiate recovery programs
Rachel Chernick, Ph.D., LCSW (Hear my name)
Senior Vice President, Family Services and Evaluation Research
Keywords: family recovery support, behavioral health technology, OUD recovery.
Camille C Cioffi, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Research Scientist, Influents Innovations, Oregon Research Institute, University of Oregon
Keywords: pregnancy, postpartum, parenting, substance use disorder, overdose prevention, well-being among people who use drugs
Kasey Claborn, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Director, Addiction Research Institute
Keywords: substance use disorder, overdose prevention, workforce well-being, digital health, system science
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Sarah Dauber, Ph.D (Hear my name)
Vice President, Partnership to End Addiction
Mattie Doherty, B.A., (hear my name)
Clinical Research Assistant, McLean Hospital
Tess K. Drazdowski, Ph.D (Hear my name)
Research Scientist III; Associate Director, JEAP Research Center; Chestnut Health Systems Lighthouse Institute
Keywords: emerging adults, substance use disorders, criminal legal system, contingency management, health services, polysubstance use, peer support services, loved ones, mentoring
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Allison Futter, B.S., (Hear my name)
PhD Student, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
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Kathryn R. Gallardo, Ph.D., LMSW (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
Keywords: recovery housing, recovery support services, medications for opioid use disorder, emerging adults, access to care
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Angela Hagaman, DrPH, M.A., NCC (Hear my name)
Research Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), College of Public Health, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Co-Director ETSU Addiction Science Center, Interim Director, ETSU Strong BRAIN Institute
Keywords: Peer support specialist, medications for opioid use disorder, SBIRT, recovery community centers, implementation science, recovery friendly workplaces
Bridget Hayes, Ph.D., (Hear my name)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UConn Health
Keywords: Long-term recovery, secondary data analysis, emerging adulthood, peer recovery support services, researchers with lived experience
Craig Henderson, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Sam Houston State University
Patrick F. Hibbard Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Research Scientist, Chestnut Health Systems
Keywords: researchers with lived experience, research design, econometrics, causal inference, community-based participatory research, recovery science, recovery support services
Christi Hildebran, MSW, CADC III, (Hear my name)
Vice President, Research and Evaluation
Bettina Hoeppner, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Director, Health through Flourishing (HtF) Research Program, Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Keywords: recovery community centers, positive psychology, mHealth, measurement
Aaron Hogue, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Senior Vice President
Keywords: family, prevention, early Intervention, treatment, recovery, implementatio
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Jordan Jurinsky, MEd, Ph.D., (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Keywords: youth recovery; recovery capital; adolescent substance use; social context of recovery; measurement and systems
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Lourah M Kelly, Ph.D., (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emergency Medicine Co-Investigator of the Collaborative Hub of Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR)
Keywords: digital health interventions; emerging adults; participatory engaged research
Adrienne Lindsey, DBH, M.A., (hear my name)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
Lauren Lewis, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Keywords: Emerging adults, recovery capital
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Lindsey Martin, Ph.D.
Program Officer, NIDA
Michael McCart, Ph.D., CADC III (Hear my name)
Senior Research Scientist and Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Oregon Social Learning Center
Keywords: substance use disorder, adolescents, emerging adults, peer recovery support services, family-based services, trauma
Julie M. McCarthy, Ph.D., (hear my name)
Director, Crafting Family Support Program, Associate Psychologist, McLean Hospital, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Keywords: community reinforcement and family training (CRAFT), invitation to change (ITC), family, support persons, substance use disorder, family peer coaches, community engagement
Li Yan McCurdy, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Keywords: social connection, peer support, recovery support services, linkage facilitation, digital interventions
Peggy McGillicuddy, BSc, MEd (Hear my name)
Director of Children's Programs, National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA)
Keywords: children impacted by addiction, COAs, family recovery advocacy
Ruth Miller, M.A., (Hear my name)
Clinical Psychology PhD Student, Department of Psychology & Philosophy, Sam Houston State University
Sarah Miller, Ph.D., (Hear my name)
Postdoctoral Health Service Psychology Resident, Emory University School of Medicine
Keywords: youth, emerging adults, medications for opioid use disorder, stigma, social determinants of health, recovery support services
Tommy Miller, BMath, FSA, FCIA, CERA, (Hear my name)
CEO, Kindling Initiative
Keywords: Cost effectiveness analysis, long-term financial impacts of addiction / interventions, actuarial math applied to addiction / recovery, peer-research, data-collection, project management for data-collection / assumption development
Kelly Moore, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Associate Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University
Keywords: stigma
Fred Muench, Ph.D.
Clear30, Partnership to End Addiction
Keywords: family recovery, cannabis recovery, non-abstinent or traditional recovery
Cynthia (Cindy) Nichols, Ph.D., MSW, (Hear my name)
Senior Project Coordinator, The Child Health and Development Institute
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Emily Pasman, Ph.D., MSW, (hear my name)
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago Jane Addams College of Social Work
Meghann Perry, B.S.
Founder, Meghann Perry Group
Keywords: program design, behavioral health arts interventions, peer support, training and curriculum development, adolescents and emerging adults, perinatal substance use
Nicole Porter, Ph.D., (hear my name)
Senior Director, Primary Connections for Youth and Families, Partnership to End Addiction
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Susan Ramsey, Ph.D., (Hear my name)
Senior Research Scientist/Professor, Brown University Health/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Keywords: HIV prevention, recovery, MOUD support, mHealth, engaging loved ones
Serena A. Rodriguez, Ph.D., M.A., MPH (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Keywords: implementation science, recovery housing, intervention design, evaluation
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Ashli J. Sheidow, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Senior Research Scientist and Director, JEAP Research Center, Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems
Keywords: youth, emerging adults, substance use disorder treatment and recovery, criminal legal system, socioecological model, training, task-shifting, community-based participatory research, mentoring, recovery science
Amanda Silcox, B.S., MSW
CPRS, The Gambling Clinic ETSU, MSW Intern, The Gambling Clinic ETSU
Hannah S. Szlyk, Ph.D., LCSW, (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Keywords: substance use disorder, co-occurring psychiatric conditions, digital health, peer recovery support, families health equity, human-centered design
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Martha Tillson, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Science and Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
Keywords: peer recovery support specialists, recovery support services, criminal legal system involvement, women, social networks, rural populations
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J. Michael Wilkerson, Ph.D., MPH, MCHES (Hear my name)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Teaching Professor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Keywords: recovery residences
Kevin Wenzel, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Psychologist and Director of Research, Maryland Treatment Centers
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Kristyn Zajac, Ph.D. (Hear my name)
Associate Professor, UConn Health
Keywords: emerging adults, peer recovery support services, substance use disorder, recovery supports in clinical settings
Sarah Zemore, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Alcohol Research Group
Keywords: mutual-help groups, recovery, recovery residences, peer support, racial/ethnic disparities, gender disparities, epidemiology and intervention