Center Leadership

Catherine Stanger, PhD

Director, Pilot Core; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Behavior Economic Interventions; Adolescent Substance Use; Medical Adherence; Technology Delivered Interventions

Contact

Catherine Stanger, PhD
Director, Pilot Core; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

46 Centerra Parkway, Suite 300-301, Lebanon, NH 03766

603-646-7023

Catherine.Stanger@dartmouth.edu


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
  • type-published
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    2019
    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.
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    2019
    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.
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    6
    2019
    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).
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    2018
    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.
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    2018
    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
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    2017
    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.
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    1492473600
    4
    2017
    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.
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