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

Impacts of the 2023 Marine Heatwave in the Florida Keys: Detection and Analysis of a Mass Coral Bleaching Event Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing Imagery.
(2025 Jul 21)
Environ Sci Technol
Ayad M, Lee CM, Porter JW, Chirayath V, Nivison CL, Vaughn KM, Kudela R
Pituitary transposition techniques: surgical anatomy and technical nuances.
(2025 Jul 18)
J Neurosurg
Xu Y, Abhinav K, Rychen J, Arifianto MR, Lee CK, Vigo V, Mohyeldin A, Cohen-Gadol AA, Fernandez-Miranda JC
Prenatal Acetamiprid Exposure Enhances Microglial Activation in Primary Microglia Culture.
(2025)
Biol Pharm Bull 48(7): 1001-1007
Lee CLM, Kanda Y, Yoshida S
Associations of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) with pregnancy outcomes in people with cardiac disease.
(2025 Jun 25)
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 312(): 114547
Jimenez Ramirez N, Panelli D, Padron E, Veliz-Dominguez L, Lee C, Bianco K
Assessment of spatial autocorrelation and scalability in fine-scale wildfire random forest prediction models.
(2025 Jul 1)
Sci Rep 15(1): 21504
Pascolini-Campbell M, Fisher JB, Cawse-Nicholson K, Lee CM, Stavros N
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