Stephanie O'Malley, PhD
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair, Clinical Research
Stephanie O'Malley, PhD is Professor and Deputy Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.
With Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Dr. O’Malley co-leads the Yale Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science. Previously, Dr. O’Malley was the Principal Investigator of the Yale Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center funded by an initiative sponsored jointly by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the co-director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Center (NIAAA) for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism with Dr. John Krystal.
Dr. O’Malley’s research focuses on understanding and developing interventions for tobacco and alcohol use. She has authored over 200 publications and has received awards from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Hazelden Foundation, the American Association for Medical and Research in Substance Abuse, and the American Cancer Society. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1983.