Research AssociatesNames are listed alphabetically. Kevin Alltucker, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Kevin Alltucker is interested in studying the relationships between family functioning and child abuse/neglect. The socioenvironmental factors associated with the development of antisocial behavior are fascinating to him, and he approaches his investigations with a multidisciplinary perspective. Jacqueline Bruce, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Bruce recently graduated from the University of Minnesota in Child Clinical Psychology and has been working as a Research Associate at OSLC since 2004. Her research focuses on the impact of early adversity (e.g., child maltreatment) on the development of young children. She is particularly interested in the development of self-regulation, or the ability to voluntarily control one’s behavior to meet the demands of different situations. Dr. Bruce’s research is also concerned with the biological processes involved with self-regulation.
Alan Feingold, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Feingold came to OSLC after having worked for nearly a decade as a biostatistician—directing the statistical research in both psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy—in the Division of Substance Abuse at the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to his position at OSLC, he is also Staff Affiliate in Psychiatry at Yale in that division, after having been a statistical consultant for the past few years. Both at OSLC and at Yale, his interest is in applying advanced statistical techniques to complex longitudinal data on substance abuse.
Dana M. Foney, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Foney earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Tulane University in Louisiana. Her dissertation examined antisocial behaviors stemming from racial profiling, and the strain and anger associated with such profiling. Additionally, she explored protective factors that lessen the potentially negative impact of racial profiling on minority youth. Dr. Foney’s broad research interest is in the prevention of antisocial behavior in high-risk children, adolescents, and their families.
David Kerr, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Kerr has studied parenting and child temperament in relation to conscience development and early disruptive behavior problems. In his research and clinical work with adolescents, David has been interested in the social contexts of depression and suicidal behavior, and in particular how relationships may affect and be affected by psychiatric symptoms.
Heidemarie LaurentSend an e-mail. Heidemarie Laurent is completing a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she studied neuroendocrine stress reactivity associated with interpersonal conflict in late adolescent romantic couples. As part of this work, she investigated interrelationships among temperament, attachment, and cortisol reactivity within couples to better understand risk for internalizing disorders in this age group. In Eugene, she has expanded her interest in interpersonal regulatory processes and the integration of neurobiology through neuroimaging and mother-infant attachment research at the University of Oregon.
Heather McClure, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. McClure is a research associate with the Latino Research Team at OSLC and also with the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon. Since 1996, she has been involved with community-based participatory research projects focused on human rights, health, social networks, and artistic and cultural practices in Guatemala and within Latino communities in the U.S.
Lisa Saldana, Ph.DSend an e-mail. Lisa Saldana joined OSLC in 2007. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, in 2003 with a research and clinical emphasis in child maltreatment and evidence-based practice. Lisa is working on the development of preventive interventions to address the needs of families involved in the child welfare system, with cases complicated by substance abuse. She has been active in the evaluation and implementation of evidence-based practices. Lisa currently is the PI on a NIDA funded Career Development award to develop an integrative treatment for maternal substance abuse and child neglect, and is working on NIH funded research grants focusing in the economic evaluation of MTFC, on the dissemination of the KEEP foster parent training group to prevent placement disruptions in foster children, and in a large-scale trial evaluating “what it takes” to implement an evidence-based practice (MTFC) in communities with barriers to implementation.
Gary Weeber, M.A.Send an e-mail. Gary Weeber, M.A. is a Research Associate and Co-Investigator on the Healthy Family Project. He is a recent addition to OSLC staff, having spent over 30 years as a practitioner in the juvenile and adult corrections fields. During his corrections career, he held a variety of positions at the line level, in middle management and as an administrator. As a program manager with the Oregon Department of Corrections, he was responsible for the development of the community corrections offender classification system and institution gang (threat group) assessment tool.
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Go to AFFILIATED SCIENTISTS page Over 200 StaffOver 200 staff work at the Center, including research scientists, clinical psychologists, family interventionists, parent educators, statisticians, computer programmers, observers, interviewers, and support staff.
22 Published ScientistsAmong the staff are 22 members who have earned their Ph.D. in either clinical, developmental, counseling, or school psychology. Each publishes extensively in the scientific literature, and regularly presents research results at international, national, regional, and/or state conferences.
Affiliations and CollaborationsOSLC is not formally affiliated with a college or university, but several OSLC scientists have appointments in either the College of Arts and Sciences or the College of Education at the University of Oregon as well as other regional academic institutions, such as Portland State University. We collaborate with researchers in a variety of academic fields working in universities, governmental agencies, and non-profit research institutes throughout the U.S. and the world. Locally, OSLC researchers have active research collaborations with a variety of non-profit and governmental agencies involved in service delivery relevant to children, families, and adults.
Former ScientistsRolf Loeber, Ph.D. Beverly I. Fagot, Ph.D. Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D. Kate Kavanagh, Ph.D. Mike Stoolmiller, Ph.D.
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