Institute for Translational Research Education in Adolescent Substance Use (ITRE)

Ardis Hanson, PhD  is an Assistant Director of Research and Education at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include language and social interaction, health informatics, and behavioral health policy and delivery systems. She received her PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in Health and Organizational Communication and her MLS in Library and Information Science from USF

Wei Wang, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of South Florida, Dr. Wei Wang has been involved as the leading statistician in multiple prevention trails, including classroom and family-based programs focused on reducing substance use and increasing academic performance. He has been a long term member of the Prevention Science & Methodology group, and currently he serves as the USF subcontract PI for three federal funded grants.

Svetlana Yampolskaya, PhD is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Child & Family Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida. Dr. Yampolskaya's research focuses on prevention of violence against children and improving outcomes for youth involved with the child welfare system. Her current research interests include prevention adverse outcomes for children in the child welfare system as well as advanced analytical and methodological approaches.

Monica Landers, MA, MSW  is currently employed with the Department of Child and Family Studies at the USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences. She completed her Master of Social Work degree at the University of South Florida as well as a Master's degree from the Criminology program at USF. Monica has previously held positions at a juvenile detention facility, juvenile residential facility, and an alternative school and is now employed as a Social and Behavioral Researcher. She endeavors to utilize her educational background and experiences in order to positively affect the lives of adolescents involved in, or who are at risk of involvement in, the juvenile justice system.

Claudia X. Aguado Loi, PhD, MPH, CPH, CHES works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Sciences & Human Performance at the University of Tampa. She specializes in public health education and promotion, program planning and evaluation, mixed-methods, community-based participatory research methods, epidemiology including study design and analysis, and project management of large research studies. She brings extensive experience working with Latino populations in cancer survivorship (e.g., quality of life of Latina breast cancer survivors), chronic disease self-management and cancer health disparities.

Jaime Reddish, MP is a Research Compliance Administrator (RCA) at the University of South Florida Institutional Review Board (IRB). In addition to reviewing protocols for human subject research, she also serves as the Education Coordinator. Jamie provides education and support to all students, faculty and staff at USF and affiliates. She graduated from USF with a Master's degree in Public Health and has been with the USF IRB since 2014.