William W. Latimer, Ph.D., M.P.H. is Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health. His research program has been NIDA-funded since 1995 and focuses on the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of drug abuse disorders and HIV/AIDS, with a special focus on neurobehavioral risk factors of disease, treatment engagement, and outcome. His prevention research includes a NIDA-funded RO1 study examining neurobehavioral risk factors of HIV infection in young injection drug users, and epidemiologic studies of health and problem behavior among adolescents in the United States, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. A primary aim of Dr. Latimer's research directed toward HIV prevention focuses on evaluating a suspected causal association between neuropsychological executive dysfunction and HIV infection among young injection drug users through case-control and longitudinal studies. Dr. Latimer's international epidemiologic research focuses on cross-cultural predictors of drug use and abuse, STD/HIV-risk, delinquency, and school failure among school-based adolescents. A separate R01 project is examining the degree to which an adapted version of Integrated Family and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy prevents drug abuse among indicated middle school youths.

Dr. Latimer's treatment research focuses on evaluating neurobehavioral and process factors influencing the efficacy and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and 12-Step approaches for adolescent drug abuse. Funded by NIDA's Behavioral Therapies Development Program, Dr. Latimer is currently evaluating the efficacy of a manual-based, adolescent drug abuse treatment that integrates cognitive-behavioral and family therapy components. Neuropsychological factors associated with treatment dropout and posttreatment outcomes are also examined. Dr. Latimer has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in psychiatric epidemiology, alcohol and drug epidemiology and prevention, behavioral medicine, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, personality theory, family therapy, and social psychology.

"Mental Health", Mental Hygiene, HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention, neuropsychology, neurobehavioral models of HIV and addiction, adolescence, drug abuse prevention and treatment, addictive behaviors

Phi Beta Kappa, Herbert Bayard Swope Award

Latimer, W. W., Stone, A., & Winters, K.C. (under review). Gender differences in psychiatric comorbidity among adolescents with substance use disorders.

Latimer, W. W., Ernst, J., Hennessey, J., Stinchfield, R. D., & Winters, K. C. (under review). Relapse among adolescent drug abusers following treatment: The role of probable ADHD status.

Latimer, W. W., Benson, S., Stone, A., Garrity, S., Winters, K.C. (under review). Cognitive-behavioral traits of adolescent drug abusers: Hidden strengths and targets of change for treatment research.

Latimer, W. W., August, G., Newcomb, M., Realmuto, G., & Hektner, J. (under review). Pathways to successful academic achievement and behavioral adjustment among ADHD and non-ADHD youth: A prospective six-year study.

Latimer, W. W., Harwood, E. M., Newcomb, M., & Wagenaar, A. C. (in press). Measuring public opinion on alcohol policy: A factor analytic study of a U.S. probability sample. Addictive Behaviors.

Latimer, W. W., Harwood, E. M., Newcomb, M., & Wagenaar, A. C. (2001). Sociodemographic and individual predictors of alcohol policy attitudes: Results from a national probability sample. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25(4), 549-556.

Latimer, W. W., Newcomb, M., Winters, K. C, & Stinchfield, R. D. (2000). Adolescent substance abuse treatment outcome: The role of substance abuse problem severity, psychosocial, and treatment factors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68(4), 684-696.

Latimer, W. W., Winters, K. C., Stinchfield, R. D., & Traver, R. (2000). Demographic, individual, and interpersonal predictors of adolescent alcohol and marijuana use following treatment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 14(2), 162-173.

Winters, K. C., Stinchfield, R. D., Opland, E., Weller, C., & Latimer W. W. (2000). The effectiveness of the Minnesota Model approach in the treatment of adolescent drug abusers. Addiction, 95(4), 601-612.

Winters, K. C., Latimer, W. W., & Stinchfield, R. D. (2000). Assessing adolescent substance use. In E.F. Wagner & H.B. Waldron (Eds.), Innovations in adolescent substance abuse intervention. Oxford, England: Elsevier Science Ltd.

Winters, K.C., Anderson, N., Bengston, P., Stinchfield, R.D., & Latimer, W.W. (2000). Development of a parent questionnaire for use in assessing adolescent drug abuse. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 32(1), 3-13.

Latimer, W. W., Jerstad, S. J., & Sommers, R. (2000). Learning disabilities and substance use disorders: Impact of an underresearched comorbidity among youth. Policy Research Brief, University of Minnesota.

Winters, K. C., Latimer, W. W., & Stinchfield, R. D. (1999). Examining psychosocial correlates of drug involvement among drug-clinic referred youth. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 9(1), 1-17.

Winters, K. C., Latimer, W. W., & Stinchfield, R. D. (1999). Adolescent treatment, in P. J. Ott, R. E. Tarter, & R. T. Ammerman (Eds.), Sourcebook on substance abuse: Etiology, epidemiology, assessment, and treatment. NY: Allyn and Bacon.

Winters, K. C., Latimer, W. W., & Stinchfield, R. D. (1999). The DSM-IV criteria for adolescent alcohol and cannabis use disorders. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60(3), 337-344.

Winters, K. C., Latimer, W. W., & Stinchfield, R. D. (1999). Assessing adolescent drug use with the Personal Experience Inventory, in M. E. Maruish (Ed.), The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Latimer, W. W. (1998). Adolescent substance abuse: Identifying biopsychosocial risk and protective factors associated with resiliency. In D. L. Wong, Nursing Care of Infants and Children, Fourth Edition. St. Louis: Mosby.

Latimer, W. W., Winters, K. C., & Stinchfield, R. D. (1997). Screening for drug abuse among adolescents in clinical and correctional settings using the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 23(1), 79-98.

Stinchfield, R., Cassuto, N., Winters, K., & Latimer, W. W. (1997). Prevalence of gambling among Minnesota public school students in 1992 and 1995. Journal of Gambling Studies, 13(1), 25-48.