Julie Schumacher-Coffey, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Julie Schumacher received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She went on to complete a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism postdoctoral training fellowship in Alcohol Etiology and Treatment at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions and then remained at RIA as a Research Scientist.

Dr. Schumacher's primary

• PhD. - 2001, Stony Brook, State University of New Youk, Stony Brook, NY
• Internship, Napa State Hospital, Stony Brook, NY
• Postdoctoral Fellow - 2004, Alcohol Etiology and Treatment, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• Assistant Professor, UMMC 2004 to present
• Psychologist, Division of Mental Health, VAMC,2005 to present

Research interests are in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse and violent behavior. She recently received funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop and test a brief intervention for intimate partner violence in an alcohol treatment setting.