Faculty

Howard A. Liddle, Ed.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Center for Treatment on Adolescent Drug Abuse;   Principal Investigator and Director, NIDA Post-Doctoral Research Training Program; Professor,  Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health (School of Medicine), Psychology (Arts and Sciences), and Counseling Psychology (Education) 

Interests: Development and empirical refinement of family-based interventions for adolescent drug abuse and conduct disorder, process and outcome studies, and research on the adaptation and adoption of empircally-supported treatment in non-research, community settings.

hliddle@med.miami.edu

Gayle A. Dakof, Ph.D.
Investigator, Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UM Medical School

Interests: Adolescent drug abuse and delinquency, development and testing of family-based interventions for female adolescent drug abuse, drug court evaluation. 

gdakof@med.miami.edu

Cynthia Rowe, Ph.D.
Investigator, Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UM Medical School 

Interests: Psychiatric comorbidity and typologies of adolescent substance abuse; family-based interventions for youth with substance abusing parents.

crowe@med.miami.edu

April Jackson-Gilfort, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor and Director of the CTRADA Adolescents and Families Clinic

Interests: Culturally responsive therapy research, clinical training and supervision, treatment development, community and organizational factors influencing the successful transportation of evidence based therapies.

agilfort@med.miami.edu