Denise Kandel, PH.D.
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons
Professor, Dept. of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
DENISE KANDEL, PH.D., Head of the Department of Epidemiology of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry. Major interests: the epidemiology, risk factors, and consequences of drug use, in particular smoking; the epidemiology of substance dependence; developmental pathways of problem behaviors in adolescence; and the intergenerational transmission of deviance.
Current research activities focus on six areas: 1) the epidemiology of adolescent smoking; 2) the progression from experimentation to nicotine dependence; 3) the Gateway Hypothesis of drug involvement; 4) the intergenerational effects of parental drug use on child development and drug behavior; 5) the consequences of prenatal smoking for child development and substance use; and 6) comorbidity between substance use and psychiatric disorders.
Undergraduate: Bryn Mawr College, B.A., 1950-1952
Graduate: Columbia University, M.A., 1952-1953
Doctoral Degree: Columbia University, Ph.D., 1953-1960
Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
1. Kandel DB, Udry JR: Prenatal Effects of Maternal Smoking on Daughters’ Smoking: Nicotine or Testosterone Exposure?. American Journal of Public Health 1999;89: 1377-1383
2. Kandel DB, Huang FY, Davies M: Comorbidity Between Patterns of Substance Use Dependence and Psychiatric Syndromes Among Adults. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2001;64: 233-241
3. Kandel DB (ed.): Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
4. Kandel DB, Kiros GE, Schaffran C, Hu MC: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cigarette Smoking Initiation and Progression to Daily Smoking: A Multilevel Analysis. American Journal of Public Health 2004;94: 128-135
5. Kandel DB, Schaffran C, Griesler P, Samuolis J, Davies M, Galanti R: On the Measurement of Nicotine Dependence in Adolescence: Comparisons of the FTND and a DSM-IV Based Scale. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2005;30: 319-332
