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

Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the 'Chicago Rat Hole'.
(2025 Oct)
Biol Lett 21(10): 20250343
Granatosky MC, Guilhon G, Chernik ND, Kantonis SJ, Lee CJ, Dickinson E
Depressive Symptoms and Substance Use: Longitudinal Examination of Alcohol and Cannabis Coping Mechanisms in Young Adults.
(2025 Oct 8)
Prev Sci
Graupensperger S, Janson MA, Fairlie AM, Larimer ME, Lee CM
High Prevalence of Difficult Readability of Gluten-Free Diet Recommendations for Celiac Disease Patients.
(2025 Sep 30)
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
Lee CDH, Green PHR, Lee A, Wolf R, Lebwohl B
Importance of Global Genomic Data Sharing to Prevent Illnesses Linked to Commercially Distributed Foods.
(2025 Sep)
Food Saf (Tokyo) 13(3): 56-61
Wise ME, Lee CC, Gieraltowski L, Nguyen TA, Nichols M, Schroeder MN, Carleton HA
Effects of lyophilised faecal filtrate compared with lyophilised donor stool on Clostridioides difficile recurrence: a multicentre, randomised, double-blinded, non-inferiority trial.
(2025 Nov)
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 10(11): 986-997
Kao D, Wong K, Lee C, Steiner T, Franz R, McDougall C, Silva M, Schmidt TSB, Walter J, Loebenberg R, Monaghan TM, Giebelhaus RT, Harynuk JJ, Xu H, Yaskina M, MacDonald KV, Marshall DA, Louie T
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