ABOUT US - CORES

CALDAR is organized into three Cores:

Coordination & Integration (C&I) Core is responsible for overall leadership for the Center projects and for administration and coordination across Cores. This Core implements the Center decision-making and advisory structures; provides opportunities for and promotes scientific collaboration, cross-fertilization of research ideas, and cross-project analyses; provides projects with centralized services for common project functions; provides training for research personnel, new investigators, and students; and disseminates findings to a variety of communities. 
Core Director:  Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.
Associate Core Director:  Christine Grella, Ph.D.
Center Coordinator:  Cheryl Teruya, Ph.D.
Assistant to the Director:  Elizabeth Evans, M.A.

Research Support & Development (RS&D) Core promotes the Center’s theme by enhancing the conceptualization of and methodological approaches to longitudinal research.  This Core promotes conceptual development and integration in longitudinal drug abuse research; enhances and standardizes methodological aspects of longitudinal research across Center projects, including centralized assistance in the acquisition of administrative data; tracks regulatory issues particularly relevant in longitudinal drug abuse research; and assists other Center dissemination efforts.
Associate Core Director:  Debra Murphy, Ph.D.
Core Coordinator:  Darren Urada, Ph.D.

Statistical Support & Data Management (SS&DM) Core provides support in statistics and data management.  This Core provides statistical consultation to Center investigators and affiliated members on analysis issues relevant to longitudinal research on drug abuse; offers a program of education on analysis of longitudinal data, specialized to drug abuse research applications; conducts analysis of longitudinal data combined across multiple studies in order to expand, compare, and validate complex models; provides consultation on processing of high quality data in longitudinal studies; and promotes the comparability and accessibility of data acquired by Center researchers.
Core Director:  Mary-Lynn Brecht, Ph.D.
Associate Director:  David Huang, Ph.D.
Core Coordinator:  Darren Urada, Ph.D.

Other senior members include Drs. Michael Prendergast and David Farabee, both of the University of California, Los Angeles, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, and Dr. Constance Weisner, of the University of California, San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente.