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

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
Added Sinonasal Morbidity of Transpterygoid Approach versus Transsphenoidal Approach: A Case-Controlled Analysis.
(2026 Feb)
J Neurol Surg B Skull Base 87(1): 43-49
Saroya J, Huang AE, Hooseinzadeh F, Lee CK, Fernandez-Miranda J, Hwang PH, Patel ZM, Nayak JV, Chang MT
Association Between COVID-19 Exposure Duration on Receptive and Expressive Language Development in Preschool Children.
(2025 Dec 1)
Children (Basel) 12(12):
Lee CS, Hwang S
Cavernous Sinus Exenteration for Invasive Mucormycosis: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.
(2025 Dec 29)
Oper Neurosurg
Lee CK, Vigo V, Kim LH, Xu Y, Gambatesa E, Chang MT, Fischbein NJ, Steinberg GK, Fernandez-Miranda JC
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