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VISN 1 NEW ENGLAND MIRECC STAFF - Ned L. Cooney, Ph.D. Return to VISN 1 MIRECC Staff page Ned L. Cooney, Ph.D.
Dr. Cooney received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University in 1981. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and he has been engaged in addiction research supported by NIH over the past 25 years. Dr. Cooney is also Director of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Newington Campus. His studies have included clinical trials of behavioral interventions for addictive disorders and studies of the process of relapse after addiction treatment. His methodological expertise includes controlled clinical trials, laboratory studies of stress and cue reactivity, and real-time data capture methodology. His current research focus is on alcohol and tobacco interactions in the treatment of alcohol dependent smokers. He has completed three clinical trials that examined the efficacy of interventions to help alcohol dependent smokers quit smoking. For more information about Dr. Cooney, go to http://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/people/ned_cooney-1.profile. |
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