
Dani Dahyeon Kang, PhD
Dr. Dahyeon Kang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where her work focused on the etiology of alcohol and substance use disorders through multimodal research methods, including alcohol administration, neuroimaging, transdermal biosensors, and ecological momentary assessments. At the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Kang investigates how individual and social factors interact to influence alcohol and cannabis use behaviors.
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
Scholarly Expertise
- Addiction
- Addiction psychiatry/psychology
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Behavior neuroimaging
- Clinical neuroscience
- Human-centered design
- Inpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Machine learning
- MRI/neuroimaging
- Neurocognitive disorders
- Neurodegenerative disorders, dementia, Alzheimer's
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Outpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)