Additional Titles & Roles
- Human Studies Committee, 2000-present
- Executive Director, Family Research Center (formerly the Missouri Family Registry), 2007-2011; 2014-present
- University Sexual Assault Investigation Board, 2016-present
Education & Training
- MPE: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1990
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Psychiatric Epidemiology: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1989
- Predoctoral Fellowship: Psychiatric Epidemiology: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1986
- PhD: Epideminiology: Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1986
- MPH: Yale College, New Haven, CT, 1976
- BA: Yale College, New Haven, CT, 1972
Major Awards
- Distinguished Faculty Award Postgraduate Education, Washington University, 2017
- Academic Women’s Network Mentor Award, 2010
Research Interests
Development and course of alcohol and other substance use disorders in general population, family and twin samples. Gene-environnment influences in SUD development, persistence and remission. Race/Ethnic differences in development of SUDs and other psychiatric disorders. Maternal v paternal influences on offspring psychosocial and SUD and other psychopathological outcomes. Psychiatric assessment and classification.
Key Publications
- Bucholz Kathleen K.,McCutcheon Vivia V.,Agrawal Arpana,Dick Danielle M.,Hesselbrock Victor M.,Kramer John R.,Kuperman Samuel,Nurnberger John I.,Salvatore Jessica E.,Schuckit Marc A.,Bierut Laura J.,Foroud Tatiana M.,Chan Grace,Hesselbrock Michie,Meyers Jacquelyn L.,Edenberg Howard J.,Porjesz Bernice,;Comparison of parent, peer, psychiatric, and cannabis use influences across stages of offspring alcohol involvement: Evidence from the COGA Prospective Study;February 2017;;
Read publication »Comparison of parent, peer, psychiatric, and cannabis use influences across stages of offspring alcohol involvement: Evidence from the COGA Prospective Study - Werner Kimberly B.,Sartor Carolyn E.,McCutcheon Vivia V.,Grant Julia D.,Nelson Elliot C.,Heath Andrew C.,Bucholz Kathleen K.,;The association of specific traumatic experiences with alcohol initiation and transitions to problem use in European American and African American women;November 2016;;
Read publication »The association of specific traumatic experiences with alcohol initiation and transitions to problem use in European American and African American women - Grant Julia D.,Waldron Mary,Sartor Carolyn E.,Scherrer Jeffrey F.,Duncan Alexis E.,McCutcheon Vivia V.,Haber Jon Randolph,Jacob Theodore,Heath Andrew C.,Bucholz Kathleen K.,;Parental separation and offspring alcohol involvement:Findings from offspring of alcoholic and drug dependent twin fathers;July 2015;;
Read publication »Parental separation and offspring alcohol involvement:Findings from offspring of alcoholic and drug dependent twin fathers - McCutcheon Vivia V.,Scherrer Jeffrey F.,Grant Julia D.,Xian Hong,Haber Jon Randolph,Jacob Theodore,Bucholz Kathleen K,;Parent, Sibling and Peer Associations with Subtypes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comorbidity in Offspring;;
Read publication »Parent, Sibling and Peer Associations with Subtypes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder Comorbidity in Offspring - Edens EL, Glowinski AL, Grazier KL, Bucholz KK (2008 Jan 11). The 14-year course of alcoholism in a community sample: do men and women differ? Drug Alcohol Depend. 93(1-2): 1-11.
Read publication »The 14-year course of alcoholism in a community sample: do men and women differ? - Duncan Alexis E.,Lessov-Schlaggar Christina N.,Sartor Carolyn E.,Bucholz Kathleen K.,;Differences in time to onset of smoking and nicotine dependence by race/ethnicity in a Midwestern sample of adolescents and young adults from a high risk family study;;
Read publication »Differences in time to onset of smoking and nicotine dependence by race/ethnicity in a Midwestern sample of adolescents and young adults from a high risk family study
Funded Research Projects
NIAAA(Significant Contributor):Distinctions Between Black and White Young Women in the Course of Alcohol Use
NIAAA(Significant Contributor):Enriching Alcoholism Cohort and Population Studies
NIAAA(Significant Contributor):Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA)
NIAAA(MPI):Outcomes of Recurrent DUI-Moms & Their Children
NIAAA(Significant Contributor):Neighborhood, Family and Individual Factors in Adolescent Drinking
NIAAA(Significant Contributor):Pharmacokinetics and Subjective Responses to Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery
NIDA(Significant Contributor):Cannabis, Depression and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors