Jane A. Ungemack, Dr.P.H.
Assistant Professor

Degrees, Universities attended:

Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
  Anthropology-Political Science, Bachelor Degree, 1972

School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
  Sociomedical Sciences, Ph.D.  1991  

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research,
  Postdoctoral Program in Mental Health Research, Fellow 1991-1992

Brief chronology of professional career: 

Dr. Ungemack received her doctoral training in Sociomedical Sciences and her first research experience at Columbia University. Subsequently, she was a Program Evaluator for the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York, and then Research Associate and Associate Director of the Greenfield Research Center in the Department of Family Medicine at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Since 1994, Dr. Ungemack has worked with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services conducting research on substance abuse treatment and prevention issues. She coordinated and conducted studies for Connecticut's Substance Abuse Treatment Needs Assessment Projects, as well as the first statewide Substance Abuse Prevention Needs Assessment Project. She is co-investigator of the Treatment Outcomes and Performance Pilot Studies, designed to help the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services develop and implement a statewide client-based outcomes monitoring data collection system. She is the evaluator for Connecticut's State Incentive Grant, the Governor's Prevention Initiative for Youth, which was designed to enhance the statewide substance abuse prevention service system. Dr. Ungemack is a co-investigator of the Persistent Effectiveness of Treatment Study for Adolescents, a multi-site longitudinal study of the outcomes of marijuana treatment for adolescents. She is also recently received funding to evaluate the Department of Children and Families' Adolescent Treatment Community Action Project, a planning grant to implement evidence-based adolescent substance abuse treatment models throughout the state. 

Main responsibilities at the UConn Health Center:

Health services research and teaching.

Major research interests:

Dr. Ungemack is a health services researcher with a specialty focus in substance abuse treatment and prevention. She consults for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) regarding substance abuse needs assessment and outcomes monitoring issues and the Department of Children and Families on adolescent substance abuse treatment. She is involved in research in assessing the effectiveness of treatment for adult and adolescent substance abusers, as well as the transfer of adolescent evidence-based treatment models to community practice. 

Current grants:

State Incentives Grant - Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; Children of Substance Abusing Parents - Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; Treatment Outcomes and Performance Pilot Study - Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment; Persistent Effectiveness of Treatment Study for Adolescents - Westat/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment; Connecticut Adolescent Treatment Community Action Grant - Connecticut Department of Children and Families and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Recent publications: 

Bidorini, A., Babor, T., Ungemack, J. and Sienna, M. Connecticut Compendium on Substance Abuse Treatment Need. Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, 2001. 

Ungemack, J., Storey, J., and Burleson, J. Connecticut Family Connection Project: Changes from Baseline to Exit. Paper presented at the Children of Substance Abusing Parents Meeting, Newport Beach, CA., March 30, 2001. 

Ungemack, J., Cook, M. and Damon, D. Governor's Prevention Initiative for Youth 2000 Student Survey: State of Connecticut. Technical report submitted to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, May 18, 2001. 

Cook, M., Damon, D., Ungemack, J. and Sussman, J. The Governor's Prevention Initiative for Youth 2000 Student Survey: School District Reports. A series of 16 district-specific reports submitted to the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, June 19, 2001. 

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Health Services Research Unit
Department of Community Medicine & Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
270 Farmington Avenue, Suite 260, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: 860.679.5403
Fax: 860.679.5405
Email: ungemack@nso2.uchc.edu