Bonnie McRee, M.P.H.
Clinical Instructor
Senior Research Associate
B.S., University of West Florida
M.P.H., University of Connecticut
Brief Chronology of Professional Career
Ms. McRee has been at the UConn Health Center since 1987. She was on staff in the Department of Psychiatry until 1999 when she joined the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care.
Responsibilities at the UConn Health Center
Behavioral research and teaching.
Ms. McRee co-instructs a two-semester core Master of Public Health course, “Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics.”
Ms. McRee’s major interests include alcohol and other drug treatment research specifically in the area of screening and brief intervention (SBI), a public health approach to identifying and managing at-risk substance use in non-traditional treatment settings. Other areas of research interest include substance use diagnosis, structured (manualized) treatment approaches, as well as treatment efficacy and implementation evaluation.
Ms. McRee is currently involved in a number of initiatives designed to evaluate the translation of screening and brief intervention (SBI) research into practice. She is the Principal Investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson-funded program to evaluate the implementation of SBI models for smokers and at-risk drinkers in high-volume primary care practices. The research is sub-contracted through the Connecticut Primary Care Association and conducted in seven Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's) throughout the New England area. Ms. McRee is also the Principal Investigator of the Connecticut SBI Initiative to implement SBI services for tobacco, alcohol and drug use in primary care and emergency department settings in New Haven, CT. The grant is funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) under contract with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) and targets underserved minority populations. Ms. McRee is UCHC's Evaluation Director for a large-scale multi-state alcohol and drug SBI translational initiative funded by CSAT, and is the Co-investigator on an NIH-funded implementation study to evaluate alcohol SBI activities in primary care settings in three developing countries. In addition to her translational research activities, Ms. McRee is an Investigator on two NIH-funded randomized clinical trials that are examining the efficacy of brief interventions and brief treatment for marijuana and other drug use. One of these, a multi-phase collaborative effort with the World Health Organization (WHO), is designed to examine brief intervention activities as linked to a new screening tool called the ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test). Both trials are being conducted in FQHC's in the Hartford area and target underserved, high-risk populations.
McRee, B., Granger, J., Babor, T., Feder, I., Folino, M., Horn, A., Steinberg, J., vom Eigen, K. (2005). Reducing tobacco use and risky drinking in underserved populations: The need for better implementation models. Annals of Family Medicine, 3(2) 558 -560.
Steinberg, K.L., Roffman, R., Carroll, K.C., McRee, B., Babor, T.F., Miller, M., Kadden, Duresky, D., & Stephens, R. (2005). Brief Treatment for Marijuana Dependence: A Manual for Treating Adults. DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 05-4022. Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Marijuana Treatment Project Research Group. (2004). Brief treatments for cannabis dependence: Findings from a randomized multi-site trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72 (3) 455-466.
WHO ASSIST Working Group. (2003) The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): development, reliability and feasibility. Addiction. 97: 1183-1194.
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: (860) 679-5485
Fax: (860) 679-5451
Email: mcree@up.uchc.edu
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