Christine Lee, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Research Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Associate Director, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors

Co-Director, BASICS Innovations Group

leecm@uw.edu

206-543-6574

Personal Statement

The transition to adulthood is the developmental period when alcohol use, marijuana use, and their associated consequences reach their lifetime peak. My scholarly interests focus on the etiology and prevention of substance use behaviors and consequences during adolescence and young/early adulthood. I have developed a highly successful portfolio of work bridging developmental, social, and motivational theory with applied prevention and intervention techniques to strategically address high-risk behaviors during the transition to adulthood. My research addresses important questions regarding how recent marijuana legislation in Washington State impacts young adult marijuana use and consequences; what motivates young adults to engage in alcohol and marijuana use; how alcohol expectancies, alcohol use and consequences are linked in a natural feed-forward process that maintains high-risk behaviors; how developmental transitions and event timing influence use; and what are efficacious prevention and intervention strategies and for whom and under what conditions are these most effective.

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Recent Publications

Development and preliminary testing of a secure large language model-based chatbot for brief alcohol counseling in young adults.
(2025 Apr 28)
Drug Alcohol Depend 272(): 112697
Suffoletto B, Clark DB, Lee C, Mason M, Schultz J, Szeto I, Walker D
The sequential daily process through which alcohol expectancies predict acute drinking behavior.
(2025 May 5)
Psychol Addict Behav
Waddell JT, King SE, Corbin WR, Lee CM
A just-in-time adaptive personalized mobile app intervention produces limited short-term reductions in heavy episodic drinking frequency in college students: A randomized control trial during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2025 Apr 25)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)
Lee CM, Cadigan JM, Calhoun BH, Cronce JM, Fairlie AM, Rhew IC, Patrick ME, Walter T, Graupensperger S, Yan AN, Duckworth JC, Larimer ME
AtlasGPT: a language model grounded in neurosurgery with domain-specific data and document retrieval.
(2025 Apr 18)
J Neurosurg
Ali R, Abdulrazeq HF, Patil A, Cheatham M, Connolly ID, Tang OY, Doberstein CA, Riccelli T, Huang KT, Shankar GM, Williamson T, Shin JH, Carter B, Torabi R, Lee CK, Cielo D, Telfeian AE, Gokaslan ZL, Cohen-Gadol AA, Zou J, Asaad WF
Satellite-empowered public health: Mapping coastal fecal contamination risks through Sentinel-2 imagery.
(2025 Apr 11)
Environ Res 278(): 121586
Kong Y, Jimenez K, Lee CM, Wu X, Jay JA
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