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

An intensive time-series investigation of day-to-day relations between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and internalizing symptoms in college students.
(2026 May 14)
J Psychopathol Clin Sci
Goh PK, Mellor GS, Wong AWWA, Lee CA, Chung S, Suh DE, Mikami AY
Pharmacokinetic Drug Interaction Studies of Limnetrelvir with Midazolam and Itraconazole in Healthy Participants.
(2026 Apr 16)
Clin Drug Investig
Desai JM, Chowdhury EA, Ali I, Lee CM, Schmidt JM, Orejudos A, Yadlapalli SL, Gupta S, Ocampo C, Miller MG, Salem AH, Mostafa NM
Endocrine therapy reprogramming of breast cancer facilitates metastatic escape via upregulation of P-Rex1/Rac1 signalling.
(2026 May 11)
Nat Commun 17(1):
Fernandez KJ, Sultani G, Nobis M, Gloss B, Eshraghi L, McCart Reed AE, Alexandrou S, Lee C, Roden DL, Jones EI, Simad MH, Millar EKA, Bartonicek N, Oakes SR, Valdes-Mora F, Colino-Sanguino Y, Mok ETY, Williams HL, Kutasovic JR, Cummings MC, Stoehr J, Lee V, Harvey K, Wu S, Lakhani SR, Simpson PT, Cox TR, Ooms LM, Mitchell CA, Salomon R, Swarbrick A, Gallego-Ortega D, Lim E, Timpson P, Caldon CE
Sentinel events in pediatric hepatology: A pilot simulation curriculum.
(2026 May)
JPGN Rep 7(2): 332-339
Lyon A, Leichtner A, Luff D, Elisofon S, Wehrman A, Sweeny K, MacDonald J, Lee CK
Extending the prototype willingness model to daily life: examining risk-conducive contexts and drinking among adolescents and young adults.
(2026 Apr 27)
Addict Behav 180(): 108725
Litt DM, Zhou Z, Fairlie AM, Graupensperger S, Gilson MS, Greene A, Lee CM, Lewis MA
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