Deborah S. Hasin PhD

Dr. Deborah Hasin is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, with a joint appointment in the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Her research focuses on drug and alcohol disorders and psychiatric comorbidity. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from Columbia University in 1986.

Dr. Hasin directs the Substance Dependence Research Group in the Department of Translational Epidemiology, and the NIDA-funded Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program (SAETP) at Columbia University. Dr. Hasin’s current research focuses on policy and other large-scale social influences on time trends in cannabis use and cannabis-related harms, and on concepts and measures of addiction and recovery/remission across psychoactive substances. Her studies on drugs and alcohol have been continously funded by NIDA and NIAAA since 1990.

Dr. Hasin is on the Board of Directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, is a member of the steering committee of the Alcohol Clinical Trials Initiative (ACTIVE), and is the text editor for the substance use disorder sections of DSM-5-TR. In the past, she has been President of the American Psychopathological Association and has served as a member of many other national advising and consultative groups.

Dr. Hasin has over 450 publications, including papers on time trends and state-level influences on cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, binge drinking and alcohol use disorders and in DSM-5 definitions of substance use disorders in general population and clinical samples. Dr. Hasin’s diagnostic research interview, the PRISM, is in use in numerous studies of the relationship of substance and psychiatric disorders in the U.S. and internationally.