Kevin Hallgren, PhD
Personal Statement
I am a clinical psychologist with research interests in the treatment of alcohol and substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. My research focuses on understanding how to improve access to evidence-based treatments and understanding why and how patients benefit from treatment. I am particularly interested in research measurement-based care — i.e., the use of standardized measures to monitor treatment progress and inform clinical decision-making. Broad areas of interest include:- Alcohol and drug use disorder treatment, including the effectiveness of digital and behavioral interventions, mechanisms of behavioral change, and social and environmental determinants of change.
- Technology to support behavioral change, including patient- and clinician-facing tools that support clinical decision-making, treatment adherence, and treatment progress monitoring.
- Applied statistical analysis, including methods for analyzing longitudinal data, clinical trials data, multilevel data, missing data, psychometric analysis, and data visualization.
Education
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of New Mexico, 2010-2014
Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship, Southwest Consortium of Clinical Psychology Internships, 2013-2014
MS, Psychology, University of New Mexico, 2008-2010
BA, Psychology, University of Missouri, 2003-2007
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
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Scholarly Expertise
- Access to health care
- Addiction
- Addiction psychiatry/psychology
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Biostatistics
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Depression
- Evidence-based practice
- Health behaviors
- Health services and health policy
- Human-centered design
- Implementation science
- Measurement-based care
- Medical records
- Mobile mental health
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Patient-centered outcomes
- Pragmatic clinical trials
- Primary care
- Psychosocial outcomes
- Psychotherapies
- Randomized controlled trial
- Research methods
- Telemedicine
- Telepsychiatry/telepsychology
- Validating changes in a primary-care based alcohol use screening instrument for predicting changes in risk for psychiatric acute care utilization
- Partnering with the Quinault Indian Nation to develop a community-based contingency management intervention
- Improving the implementation of smartphone-based contingency management in medical settings for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder: a qualitative analysis of patient and clinician experiences
- Acceptability and feasibility of a single-session + digital mental health intervention for people with psychosis on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit
- eHaRT-A: adapting an in-person harm reduction for alcohol intervention into a telehealth platform
- eHaRT-A
- Impact of the Preventing Addiction-Related Suicide (PARS) Intervention on patients who receive community-based addiction treatment
- Using routine alcohol screening measures to identify 1-year risk of suicidal ideation, intent, and planning within a large primary care system in Washington
- Understanding practical alcohol measures in primary care to prepare for measurement-based care
- Improving opioid use disorder treatment using contingency management via mHealth
- Developing measurement-based care tools for addiction treatment clinics
- Bolster: Development and testing of a caregiver-facing mobile health intervention to reduce duration of untreated psychosis
- Feasibility of mHealth technology-enabled service for remote observed therapy of methadone and COVID-19 screening for patients in an opioid treatment program
- The UW Medical Student Addiction Research (MedStAR) program to address substance use disorders in urban and rural communities in five western states
- Patient-centered team-based primary care to treat opioid use disorder, depression, and other conditions (PC2Too)
- Changing our paths: well-being and recovery among Native Americans with opioid use disorder
- Alcohol and addiction Research Domain Criteria (AARDoC) and alcohol use disorder recovery
- Validating a DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder (SUD) symptom checklist
Recent Publications
Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder Among Primary Care Patients with Varying Frequency of Past-Year Cannabis Use.
(2024 Oct 24)
J Gen Intern Med
Lapham GT, Bobb JF, Luce C, Oliver MM, Hamilton LK, Hyun N, Hallgren KA, Matson TE
(2024 Oct 24)
J Gen Intern Med
Lapham GT, Bobb JF, Luce C, Oliver MM, Hamilton LK, Hyun N, Hallgren KA, Matson TE
Incidence of Hospitalizations Involving Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in a Primary Care Population.
(2024 Oct 1)
JAMA Netw Open 7(10): e2438128
Steel TL, Matson TE, Hallgren KA, Oliver M, Jack HE, Berger D, Bradley KA
(2024 Oct 1)
JAMA Netw Open 7(10): e2438128
Steel TL, Matson TE, Hallgren KA, Oliver M, Jack HE, Berger D, Bradley KA
Prevalence of alcohol use disorders documented in electronic health records in primary care across intersections of race or ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status.
(2024 Aug 30)
Addict Sci Clin Pract 19(1): 61
Ellis RL, Hallgren KA, Williams EC, Glass JE, Rhew IC, Oliver M, Bradley KA
(2024 Aug 30)
Addict Sci Clin Pract 19(1): 61
Ellis RL, Hallgren KA, Williams EC, Glass JE, Rhew IC, Oliver M, Bradley KA
From alcohol and other drug treatment mediator to mechanism to implementation: A systematic review and the cases of self-efficacy, social support, and craving.
(2024 Aug 25)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)
Maisto SA, Moskal D, Firkey MK, Bergman BG, Borsari B, Hallgren KA, Houck JM, Hurlocker M, Kiluk BD, Kuerbis A, Reid AE, Magill M
(2024 Aug 25)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)
Maisto SA, Moskal D, Firkey MK, Bergman BG, Borsari B, Hallgren KA, Houck JM, Hurlocker M, Kiluk BD, Kuerbis A, Reid AE, Magill M
Equivalence of Alcohol Use Disorder Symptom Assessments in Routine Clinical Care When Completed Remotely via Online Patient Portals Versus In Clinic via Paper Questionnaires: Psychometric Evaluation.
(2024 Jul 22)
J Med Internet Res 26(): e52101
Matson TE, Lee AK, Oliver M, Bradley KA, Hallgren KA
(2024 Jul 22)
J Med Internet Res 26(): e52101
Matson TE, Lee AK, Oliver M, Bradley KA, Hallgren KA
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