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Established in 1880 and located in the heart of Los Angeles, the University of Southern California (USC) is one of the world's leading private research universities, with a central College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and 17 professional schools on two campuses. The Health Sciences campus, to the northeast of downtown Los Angeles, is home to the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the School of Pharmacy, three major teaching hospitals and programs in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, and Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy.

Adam Leventhal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is an addiction psychologist and behavioral scientist. His expertise involves the etiology, epidemiology, and psychopharmacology of tobacco use and other addictive or health-damaging behaviors. He is Director of the USC Health, Emotion, & Addiction Laboratory, a research group that studies contextual factors that modify the addictiveness of drugs, with the goal of explaining and reducing health disparities in addiction among women, racial/ethnic minorities, individuals of low socioeconomic status, youth, and people with mental illness. Additional specific areas of interest are: (1) mood disorders; (2) neurogenetics; (3) adolescent health; (4) electronic cigarettes and tobacco regulatory science; and (5) cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention. He has been awarded more than $8M in grants as principal investigator from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. He has authored 150+ peer-reviewed publications in a broad array of journals in medicine, psychology, and public health, including JAMA, Psychological Bulletin, and many others. Dr. Leventhal is a fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior and American Psychological Association (Divisions 28 and 50) and has received awards for exceptional early career scientific contributions from six professional organizations and a Mellon Mentoring Award . He serves as associate editor for Drug & Alcohol Dependence, Nicotine & Tobacco Research and Behavioral Medicine and is a standing member of the NIH Addiction Risk and Mechanisms study section. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist. His personal interests include running, playing guitar, watching football, spending time with friends and family.