University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, B.A. Honors, 1978, Psychology
CA School of Professional Psychology, CA, Ph.D. (APA), 1985, Clinical Psychology

Academic positions

Internship in Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Division of Medical Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1983 - 1984

Assistant in Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Division of Medical Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland., 1984 - 1986

Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland., 1986 - 1992

Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland., 1990 - Present

Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland., 1999 — Present

Psychological certification

Professional associations

Journal reviewer

Drug and Alcohol Dependence (Editorial Board), Archives of General Psychiatry
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Nervous and Mental Disease
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Selected publications

Brooner, R.K., Templer, D., Svikis, D., & Schmidt, C.W. Dimensions of alcoholism: A multivariate analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1990, 51, 77-81.

Brooner, R.K., Bigelow, G.E., Strain, E.C., & Schmidt, C.W. Intravenous drug abusers with antisocial personality disorder: Increased HIV risk behavior. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1990, 26, 39-44.

Strain, E.C., Brooner, R.K., Bigelow, G.E. (1991). Clustering of multiple substance use and psychiatric diagnoses in opiate addicts. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1991, 27, 127-134.

Brooner, R.K., Schmidt, C.W., Felch, L.J., Bigelow, G.E. Childhood behavior of adult drug abusers: Implications for diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1992. 149, 482-487.

Greenfield, L., Bigelow, G.E., Brooner, R.K. HIV risk behavior in drug users: Increased blood "booting" during cocaine injection. AIDS , 1992, 4, 95-107.

Brooner, R.K., Herbst, J.H., Schmidt, C.W., Bigelow, G.E., Costa, P.T. Antisocial personality disorder among drug abusers: Relations to other personality diagnoses and the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1993, 181:5, 313-319.

Brooner, R.K., Greenfield, L., Schmidt, C.W., Bigelow, G.E. Antisocial personality disorder and HIV infection among intravenous drug abusers. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1993, 150:1, 53-58

Strain, E.C., Buccino, D. L., Brooner, R.K., Schmidt, C.W., Bigelow, G.E. The triply diagnosed: Patients with major mental illness, cognitive impairment, and substance abuse. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1994, 181, 585-587.

Rousar, E., Brooner, R.K., Regier, M., Bigelow, G.E. Psychiatric distress in antisocial drug abusers: Relation to other personality disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1994, 34, 149-154.

Kidorf, M., Stitzer, M.L., Brooner, R.K. Characteristics of methadone patients responding to take-home incentives. Behavior Therapy, 1994, 25, 109-121.

Brooner, R.K., Schmidt, C.W., Herbst, J.H. Personality disorders among opioid abusers and their NEO-PI personality profiles. In: Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. P.T. Costa and T. A.Widiger (eds.). American Psychological Association, 1994.

King, V.L., Brooner, R.K., Bigelow, G.E., Schmidt, C.W., Felch, L.J., Gazaway, P.M. Condom use rates for specific sexual behaviors among opioid abusers entering treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1994, 35, 231-238.

Kidorf, M., Stitzer, M.L., Brooner, R.K., Goldberg, J. Contingent methadone take-home doses reinforce adjunct therapy attendance of methadone maintenance patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1994, 36, 221-226.

Greenfield, L., Bigelow, G.E., Brooner, R.K. Validity of intravenous drug abusers' self-reported changes in high-HIV-risk drug use behavior. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1995, 39, 91-98.

Kidorf, M., Brooner, R.K., Chutaupe, MA, Stitzer M.L. The concurrent validity of substance use diagnoses in opioid abusers receiving methadone substitution therapy. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1996, 42, 117-123.

Silverman, K., Higgins, S.T., Brooner, R.K., Montoya, I.D., Cone, E.J., Schuster, C.R., Preston, K.L. Sustained cocaine abstinence in intravenous drug abusers through voucher-based reinforcement therapy. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1996, 53, 409-415.

Kidorf, M., Hollander, J.R., King, V.L., Brooner, R.K. Increasing employment of opioid dependent outpatients: An intensive behavioral intervention. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1996, 13, 11-23.

Silverman, K., Wong, C.J., Higgins, S.T., Brooner, R.K., Contoreggi, C., Umbricht-Schneiter, A., Schuster, C.R., Preston, K.L. Increasing opiate abstinence through voucher-based reinforcement therapy. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1996, 41, 157-165.

Brooner, R.K., King, V.L., Kidorf, M., Schmidt, C.W., Bigelow, G.E. Psychiatric and substance use comorbidity in treatment-seeking opioid abusers, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1997, 54, 71-80.

Chutaupe, MA. D., Brooner, R.K., Stitzer, M. Sedative disroders in opiate dependent patients: Association with psychiatric and other substance use disorders. Nervous and Mental Disease, 1997, 185, 289-297.

Eissenberg, T., Bigelow, G.E., Strain, E.C., Walsh, S.L., Brooner, R.K., Stitzer, M.L., Johnson, R.E. Dose-related efficacy of levo-alpha acetyl methadol for treatment of opioid dependence: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of American Medical Association, 1997, 277, 1945-1951.

Clemmey, P., Brooner, R.K., Chutuape M.A., Kidorf, M., Stitzer, M. Smoking habits in a methadone maintenance treatment population. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1997, 46, 56-62.

Kidorf, M., Brooner, R.K., King, V.L., Wertz, J., Stoller, K. Predictive validity of cocaine, sedative, and alcohol dependence diagnoses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1998, 66, 168-173.

Bigelow, G.E, Brooner, R.K & Silverman L: Competing motivations: Drug reinforcement vs non-drug reinforcement. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 1998, 12, 8-14.

Preston, K.L., Silverman, K., Higgins, S.T., Brooner, R.K., Montoya, I., Schuster, C.R., Cone, E.J. Cocaine use early in treatment predicts outcome in a behavioral treatment program. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1998, 66, 691-696.

Brooner, R, Kidorf, M., King, V, Beilenson, P., Svikis, D., Vlahov, D. Drug abuse treatment success among needle exchange participants. Public Health Reports, 1998, 113 (1), 129-139.

Brooner, R.K., Kidorf, M., King, V.L., Stoller, K. Preliminary evidence of improved treatment response in antisocial drug abusers. In Special Issue: Recent perspectives on antisocial problems in drug abusers (ed. R.K. Brooner), Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1998, 49, 249-260.

E-mail contact: rbrooner@jhmi.edu