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

Underlying factors that affect ultrasound conspicuity of breast biopsy markers: an exploratory study.
(2025)
Transl Breast Cancer Res 6(): 2
Cario J, Lee CU, Oelze ML
What Are Tolerance Breaks and Why Do Young Adults Take Them? A Qualitative Investigation of Temporary Abstinence Breaks from Cannabis.
(2025)
Cannabis 8(1): 150-164
Walukevich-Dienst K, DeVries EG, Fontana TJK, Blayney JA, Kilmer JR, Graupensperger S, Lee CM
Safety and immunogenicity of an adjuvanted chikungunya virus virus-like particle (CHIKV VLP) vaccine in previous recipients of other alphavirus vaccines versus alphavirus vaccine-naive controls: an open-label, parallel-group, age-matched, sex-matched, phase 2 randomised controlled study.
(2025 Feb 12)
Lancet Microbe
Hamer MJ, McCarty JM, Pierson BC, Regules JA, Mendy J, Sanborn AD, Gardner CL, Haller JM, Gregory MK, Liggett DL, Glass PJ, Ghosh N, Royalty Tredo S, Warfield KL, Burke CW, Lee C, Saunders D, Bedell L, Richardson JS
Tracking graduate outcomes of undergraduate physiology major students.
(2025 Feb 4)
Adv Physiol Educ
Lee CC, Vear A, Howard B, Choate J
Complications of Endonasal Odontoidectomy in Pediatric versus Adult Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
(2025 Feb)
J Neurol Surg B Skull Base 86(1): 82-91
Kosaraju N, Lee CK, Qian ZJ, Fernandez-Miranda JC, Nayak JV, Chang MT
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