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

Patterns of invasion of the medial wall of the cavernous sinus by pituitary adenomas.
(2025 Jun 27)
J Neurosurg
Constanzo F, Rychen J, Lee CK, Decker JH, Fischbein N, Johnstone T, Ljubimov V, Vigo V, Fernandez-Miranda JC
Epiblast-derived CX3CR1+ progenitors generate cardiovascular cells during cardiogenesis.
(2025 Jun 23)
EMBO J
Cho K, Andrade M, Khodayari SK, Lee C, Bae S, Kim S, Kim JE, Yoon YS
Within-day associations between affect and intentions to drink alcohol in adolescents and young adults: A registered report.
(2025 Jun 23)
Psychol Addict Behav
King KM, Dora J, Schultz M, McCabe CJ, Lee CM, Shoda Y, Fairlie AM, Litt DM, Lewis MA, Patrick ME, Smith GT
Corrigendum to "Joint localization and classification of breast masses on ultrasound images using an auxiliary attention-based framework" [Medical Imaging Analysis 90 (2023) 102960].
(2025 Jun 17)
Med Image Anal
Fan Z, Gong P, Tang S, Lee CU, Zhang X, Song P, Chen S, Li H
Prone Ultrasound-Guided Needle Biopsy of a Suspicious Breast MRI Finding Not Seen on MRI-Directed Supine Breast Ultrasound in a Patient With a Breast Implant.
(2025 Jun 18)
AJR Am J Roentgenol
Gonzalez TV, Lee CU
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