Katie Witkiewitz
Regent's Professor
Area Head: Quantitative/Methodology

- Email:
- katiew@unm.edu
- Phone:
- (505) 277-5953
- Office:
- Logan Hall, 118
- Education:
- Ph.D., University of Washington, 2005
- Lab Website
- Curriculum vitae
Research Area/s:
Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Quantitative Psychology
Research Interests:
- Mindfulness-based interventions for substance use disorders
- Harm reduction and diverse pathways to recovery from substance use disorder
- Longitudinal data analysis and quantitative methods for studying behavior change
- Integrated behavioral treatment for opioid use disorder and chronic pain
Profile:
Selected Publications
- Witkiewitz, K., Montes, K. S., Schwebel, F. J., & Tucker, J. A. (2020). What is recovery? A narrative review of definitions of recovery from alcohol use disorder. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 40. https://doi.org/10.35946/arcr.v40.3.01
- Witkiewitz, K., Pearson, M. R., Wilson, A. D., Stein, E. R., Votaw, V. R., Hallgren, K. A., Maisto, S. A., Swan, J. E., Schwebel, F. J., Aldridge, A., Zarkin, G. A., & Tucker, J. A. (2020). Can alcohol use disorder recovery include some heavy drinking? A replication and extension up to nine years following treatment. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, , 44, 1862-1874. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14413.
- Witkiewitz, K., Roos, C. R., Mann, K., & Kranzler, H. R. (2019). Advancing precision medicine for alcohol use disorder: Replication and extension of reward drinking as a predictor of naltrexone response. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43 (11), 2395-2405. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14183
- Witkiewitz, K., Litten, R. Z., & Leggio, L. (2019). Advances in the science and treatment of alcohol use disorder. Science Advances, 5 (9), eaax4043. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax4043
Courses Taught
PSY 650: Advanced Latent Variable Modeling
PSY 535: Personality Functions
PSY 499: Undergraduate Problems
PSY 430: Alcohol Use Disorders
PSY 332: Abnormal Behavior
PSY 650: Structural Equation Modeling
PSY 650: Applied Data Analysis
Lab
Graduate students:
Hannah Carlon (co-mentor Margo Hurlocker
David (Ikela) Moniz-Lewis
Elena Stein
Julia Swan
Victoria Votaw