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

A Novel De Novo KDM3B Variant in the Youngest Reported Male Patient With Diets-Jongmans Syndrome and Facial Asymmetry.
(2025 Nov 14)
Clin Genet
Jo S, Lee C, White L, Shillington A, Slavotinek A, Wu Y
Author Correction: Epiblast-derived CX3CR1+ progenitors generate cardiovascular cells during cardiogenesis.
(2025 Nov 12)
EMBO J
Cho K, Andrade M, Khodayari S, Lee C, Bae S, Kim S, Kim JE, Yoon YS
Using Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Angiography to Evaluate the Impact of Surgical and Patient Factors on Posterior Septal Artery Perfusion in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery.
(2025 Dec)
J Neurol Surg B Skull Base 86(6): e2-e7
Daum R, Grimm D, Yong M, Hosseinzadeh F, Lee CK, Fernandez-Miranda JC, Nayak JV, Patel ZM, Hwang PH, Chang MT
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
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