Robert A. Zucker, Ph.D.

Dr. Zucker is Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC), and Director of the Substance Abuse Section in the Department of Psychiatry. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research (Research Center for Group Dynamics) at Michigan. He is a past-president of the Division on Addictions of the American Psychological Association, a review editor for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, as well as a consulting editor for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and Development and Psychopathology. Dr. Zucker is also currently a member of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Committee on Underage Drinking, Subcommittee on College Drinking.

His major research focus has been the lifespan etiology of substance abuse, with a special interest in the development and clinical course of alcoholism. For the past 21 years, he has been Director of the Michigan Longitudinal Study. He also is Director of UMARC’s NIAAA funded Multidisciplinary Alcoholism Research Training Program, as well as a participating investigator on a number of other UMARC projects concerning the genetics of alcoholism, brain mechanisms regulating addictive behavior, and studies of clinical course and outcome. He is the author of over 200 publications and the editor of nine books. Dr. Zucker is also a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in clinical psychology.