Our Faculty

Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, focuses her research on the epidemiology of substance use, abuse and dependence, as well as the environmental, psychiatric and individual factors associated with substance use disorders in the U.S. and general population. In particular, Dr Martins conducts studies on nonmedical prescription drug use, abuse and dependence among adolescents, young adults, and minorities and has an interest in childhood risk factors for problem and pathological gambling. As a faculty member of the Psych-Neuro Epidemiology Cluster at Columbia University, she works closely with researchers from such disciplines as social epidemiology, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, addiction psychiatry, substance abuse health economics, statistics and survey methodology, and collaborates with researchers from other leading institutions including Michigan State University, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her research portfolio has included NIDA-NIH funded studies to investigate trends in nonmedical prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder in U.S. populations well as their association with psychiatric disorders. As the principal investigator on a NICHD-NIH funded study, Dr. Martins is investigating childhood predictors of young adult gambling and gambling problems in African-Americans in Baltimore.

PhD, University of S?o Paulo-USP-Brazil, 2003

MD, UFPR- Brazil, 1998

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• American Psychiatric Association Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators Award, 2004 & 2006
• NIDA Women and Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award, 2007
• Joseph Ciarrocchi Recognition Award from the Maryland Council on Problem Gambling for pioneering efforts in research on youth problem gambling, 2011
• American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Travel Awardee, 2011

Selected Editorial Boards

• Co-Section Editor, ?Health behaviour, Health promotion and society section? -BMC Public Health

IDENTIFICATION OF SUBGROUPS OF ALCOHOL USERS AND RELATED FACTORS IN THE S?O PAULO METROPOLITAN AREA: GENDER DIFFERENCES, SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES


Countries: Brazil

ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE AMONG MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE STATE OF S?O PAULO


Countries: Brazil

PATTERNS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG CONSUMPTION IN NIGHTCLUBS: EPIDEMIOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTERVENTION
This study aims to first investigate the patterns of alcohol and drug use among youth who go regularly to nightclubs in S?o Paulo city and then develop a web-based intervention to reduce binge drinking and drug us among these youth.

Countries: Brazil