Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ph.D.

Dorene is a post doctoral research associate in the Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center. Her substantive research interests include influences from the adolescent social contexts – peers, family, and school – on substance use and the prevention of minority adolescent substance abuse. She also has a methodological interest to examine longitudinal models of adolescent substance use.

Education:

• Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 2007
• M.A. North Carolina Central University - 2002
• B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 1998