Graduate Student Alumni
Dr. Garner is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. Alisa received her B.S. in Psychology from Weber State University and M.A. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology from Midwestern State University. After she completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Durham VA Medical Center, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Garner is currently the director of the Alcohol and Sexual Behaviors (ASB) Research Lab, where she studies alcohol misuse as it relates to problematic sexual behaviors including sexual assault perpetration and risky sexual behaviors. For fun, Alisa enjoys running, cooking, and listening to podcasts.
Dr. Brem is currently an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee in 2021 after completing a pre-doctoral internship at the Charleston Consortium/Medical University of South Carolina. At UTK, she completed a 60-day diary study funded by NIAAA (F31) that examined state jealousy and emotion regulation as moderators of the proximal associations between college students’ alcohol use and intimate partner violence perpetration. Since joining the faculty at Virginia Tech in 2021, Dr. Brem has continued examining malleable experiences that may be targeted to reduce the likelihood that alcohol use will potentiate intimate partner violence using various approaches (e.g., ecological momentary assessment, portable breathalyzers, experimental aggression paradigms).
Dr. Shorey received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee in 2014. After leaving UT, he completed an internship at the Charleston Consortium in 2014 and was an Assistant Professor at Ohio University from 2014-2018. Since 2018, Dr. Shorey has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he is now an Associate Professor and lab director of the Substance Use and Relationship Factors (SURF) Lab.
Since saying farewell to Austin Peay, Jeniimarie made her way back up to the Northeast for internship and postdoc at the VA. She now calls Massachusetts “home” and is licensed to practice there, as well as in Rhode Island where she is employed. Jeniimarie enjoys myriad roles as part of Lifespan Physician Group Adult Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. She is a Staff Psychologist with the outpatient Family Therapy Program, and holds two leadership positions as Assistant Director of Psychology and Assistant Director of Quality. Her role as Clinical Assistant Professor at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University affords Jeniimarie the opportunity to share her passion for teaching and supervision with psychiatry residents and psychology fellows. She thanks Greg and UTK for helping to launch these professional successes.
Jeniimarie can also be found exercising her “silly” with her two children, trying new recipes alongside her husband, and cuddling her two rescue kitties. She loves spending time with family and dear friends, redesigning her home spaces, and listening to audio books.
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Sarah Lange is currently a medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. After beginning research with the RAAD Lab as a freshman, she piloted her own major, Addiction and Behavioral Neuroscience, to study addiction prevention and treatment at a deeper level. She is especially interested in the relationship between the social determinants of health and substance misuse, as well as primary prevention and harm reduction initiatives that may reduce this misuse. In her free time, Sarah enjoys reading novels, going to the gym, and playing pickleball.