Catherine Stanger, PhD
Director, Pilot Core; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dr. Catherine Stanger is a Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Throughout her career, she has conducted extensive research developing and testing innovative science-based interventions to promote healthy behavior. Her work has focused on a wide range of important health problems, including type 1 diabetes, substance use, and overweight and obesity. Dr. Stanger’s work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Her clinical research has focused on novel ways to use incentives to motivate behavior change in teens, young adults, and parents, and she has collaborated with many clinical and research partners to use her interventions. In addition, she has integrated research on decision making and brain processes into her work in order to understand risk factors and to improve treatment outcomes. Most recently, Dr. Stanger has focused on digital and web-based approaches to health behavior change.
Selected Publications
- Stanger C, Budney AJ. Contingency management: Using incentives to improve outcomes for adolescent substance use disorders. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2019 Dec;66(6):1183-1192. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.08.007. Review. PMID: 31679606.
- Elton A, Stanger C, James GA, Ryan-Pettes S, Budney A, Kilts CD. Intertemporal decision-making-related brain states predict adolescent drug abuse intervention responses. Neuroimage Clin. 2019 Aug 5;24:101968. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101968. PMID: 31404876.
- Stanger C, Scherer EA, Vo HT, Babbin SF, Knapp AA, McKay JR, Budney AJ. Working memory training and high magnitude incentives for youth cannabis use: A SMART pilot trial. Psychol Addict Behav. 2019 Jun 27. doi:10.1037/adb0000480. PMID: 31246068. PMCID: PMC6933103 (available on 2021-02-01).
- Stanger C, Lansing AH, Scherer E, Budney A, Christiano AS, Casella SJ. A web-delivered multicomponent intervention for adolescents with poorly controlled Type 1 diabetes: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Ann Behav Med. 2018 Nov 12;52(12):1010-1022. doi: 10.1093/abm/kay005. PMID: 30418521.
- Stoianova M, Tampke EC, Lansing AH, Stanger C. Delay discounting associated with challenges to treatment adherence and glycemic control in young adults with Type 1 diabetes. Behav Processes. 2018 Jun 26. pii: S0376-6357(17)30576-4. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2018.06.013. PMID: 29958994
- Lansing AH, Stanger C, Crochiere R, Carracher A, Budney A. Delay discounting and parental monitoring in adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2017;40(6):864-74. PMCID: PMC5681872.
- Stanger C, Scherer EA, Babbin SF, Ryan SR, Budney AJ. Abstinence based incentives plus parent training for adolescent alcohol and other substance misuse. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2017. doi: 10.1037/adb0000279. PMID:28414474.