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

Alcohol and cannabis use predicted by affect-urgency interactions in everyday life.
(2026 Jan 11)
Clin Psychol Sci
Dora J, McCabe CJ, Schultz ME, Lee CM, Shoda Y, Patrick ME, Smith GT, King KM
A multicountry study to establish rates for pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in low- and middle-income regions.
(2026 Jan 14)
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
Tullio AN, Yanni E, Coutinho CM, Sivapatham L, Lee CMF, Pallem S, Pu Y, Akawung A, Kim JH, Henry O, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Ahmed K, Del Carmen Flores Acosta C, Reyes O, Abadía de Regalado I, Arias Fernandez DA, Aurpibul L, Taher SW, Caccavo J, Ceballos A, Pichailuck C, D'Andrea Nores U, De Leon T, De Bernardi M, Dieser P, D'Silva EC, Falaschi A, Fry S, Gentile A, Teo IH, Kotze S, Lopez-Medina E, Luca R, Lucion MF, Mantaring JBIV, Marin B, Moelo M, Pinto J, Puthanakit T, Roa MF, Rodriguez Brieschke MT, Rodriguez CE, Rodriguez Niño JN, Schwarzbold AV, Sierra Garcia A, Soon R, Tinoco JC, Velásquez Penagos JA, Zaman K, Dos Santos G
Acute effects of subjective alcohol effects and negative alcohol consequences on next-day positive alcohol expectancies.
(2026 Jan 10)
Addict Behav 175(): 108615
Waddell JT, Acuff SF, Schultz ME, Lee CM
Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers.
(2026 Jan 12)
Assessment
King KM, Kang D, Schultz ME, Lee CM, Dora J, Boness CL, Watts AL
Epicardial Fat is Associated with Ventricular Dilation in Patients After the Fontan Operation.
(2026 Jan 12)
Pediatr Cardiol
Ryan MD, Clair NS, Lee CK, Rathod RH
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