Research Affiliate Program

The Research Affiliate Program is a networking and outreach program designed to foster research collaborations among faculty, staff and students interested in gambling issues. Affiliates meet monthly and have initiated studies examining the etiology of gambling addiction, assessing the social impact of gambling on individuals and communities, among others. To date, more than 60 faculty, staff and students have applied for affiliate status.

Faculty and staff from all schools of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and other University System of Maryland campuses are eligible to be affiliates of the Center. Other interested parties are invited to apply for affiliation.

Status as a research affiliate confers access to a network in which junior and senior affiliated faculty members share, mentor and collaborate on research studies of myriad aspects of gambling. Affiliates have access to the Research Program on Gambling’s Free State Data Warehouse to perform secondary data analysis projects or to provide pilot data for grant applications.

To apply for affiliation, please send your request and CV to Teresa Yates, Business Operations Director, at tyates@som.umaryland.edu.

Current Research Affiliates

Name	Title	Department	Institution
Fiyinfolu Fisayo Adetunji	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Jennifer Albrecht	Assistant Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Tameka Alestock	Clinical Research Specialist	Department of Medicine	UMB
Ahmad Al-Hadidi	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Afrouz Anderson	n/a	National Institutes of Health	NIH
Siamak Aram	Postdoctoral Fellow	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Amelia Arria	Associate Professor	Dept. of Behavioral and Community Health	University of Maryland College Park
Marie Bailey-Kloch	Health Programs Manager	School of Social Work	UMB
Surjeet Baldwan	Assistant Professor	Coppin State University	CSU
Tamara Alisa Barovskaia	Clinical Research Assistant	Department of Neurology	UMB
Ivonne Berges	Assistant Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Gail Betz	Research Education and Outreach Librarian	Service Access and Practice Innovation	Maryland Behavioral health Administration Strategic Collaborations
Laura E. Burns-Heffner, LCSW	Director, Office of Problem Gambling and Family Peer Navigation	Service Access and Practice Innovation	Maryland Behavioral health Administration
Kimberly Caldeira	Senior Faculty Specialist	Behavioral and Community Health	University of Maryland College Park
Kathryn Carr	Director of Operations	Center on Young Adult Health and Development	University of Maryland College Park
Laura Castellon	Clinical Research Assistant	Department of Neurology	UMB
Yuching Cheng	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine	UMB
Fatima Chowdhry	Staff Scientist	Section on Analytical and Functional Biophotonics	NI CHD
Jessica Miller Clouser	Research Associate	Health, Behavior & Society	UK/td>
Anna Cohen	Clinical Assistant Professor	School of Social Work	UMB/td>
John Cole	Associate Professor	Department of Neurology	UMB
Ann Cotton	Director	Schaefer Center for Public Policy	University of Baltimore
Reese Crispen	Research Analyst	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Athena Cymrot	Law Fellow	School of Law	UMB
Brendan Day	Doctoral Student	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Patricia Dischinger	Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Nancy Ellish	Associate Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Sunghee Flores	Program Administrator	Department of Medicine	UMB
John Flunker	Research Analyst	Health, Behavior & Society	UK
Kevin E. O’Grady	Associate Professor	Department of Psychology	University of Maryland College Park
Amir Gandjbakhche	Senior Investigator	Section on Analytical and Functional Biophotonics	NI CHD
Polymnia Georgiou	Postdoctoral Fellow	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Todd Gould	Associate Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Lynn M. Grattan	Associate Professor	Department of Neurology	UMB
Don Haynes	Associate Professor	School of Public and International Affairs	University of Baltimore
Seth Himelhoch	Associate Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Shiu Ho	Database Engineer	National Study Center	UMB
Kathleen Hoke	Professor	School of Law	UMB
Ardenia Holland	Health Educator	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Samir Jafri	Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	UMB
Lily Jarman-Reisch	Development Officer	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Hyun-Jin Jun	Graduate Student	School of Social Work	UMB
Ryan Jollie	Research Coordinator	Department of Neurology	UMB
Nancy Knight	Associate Professor	Department of Radiation Oncology	UMB
Wendy Lane	Associate Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Lauren Levy	Research Associate	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Yuanyuan Liang	Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Elisabeth Lipsky	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Sweta Maheshwari	Law Fellow	School of Law	UMB
Deb Medoff	Associate Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Christopher Meenan	Director of Clinical Informatics	Department of Medicine	UMB
Istvan Merchentaler	Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Haley Miles-McLean	Graduate Student	Dept. of Psychology	University of Maryland Baltimore County
Braxton Mitchell	Professor	Department of Medicine	UMB
Ilana Mittman	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Andrea Monaghan	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Eleanor Neijstrom	Clinical Research Assistant	Department of Neurology	UMB
Chidi Obasi	Research Associate	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Denise Orwig	Faculty	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Tamar Pair	Accounting Manager	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Kathleen Palmer	Nurse Coordinator	Department of Medicine	UMB
Jigar Patel	Clinical Assistant Professor	Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine	UMB
Geoffrey Rosenthal	Professor	Department of Medicine	UMB
Loreen Rugle	Assistant Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Paul Sacco	Associate Professor	School of Social Work	UMB
Christina Scheele	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Nicholas Schluterman	Instructor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
William Seymour	Clinical Research Assistant	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Gordon Smith	Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Krystal Swasey	Doctoral Student	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Jennifer Swanberg	Professor	School of Social Work	UMB
Diane Marie St. George	Assistant Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
Robert Wachbroit	Associate Professor	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB
William Wells	Research Associate	Schaefer Center for Public Policy	University of Baltimore
Christopher Welsh	Associate Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Owen White	Professor	Institute for Genome Sciences	UMB
Rob White	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Psychiatry	UMB
Teresa Yates	Director of Business Operations, CTRIC	Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health	UMB