Researcher profile

Marc L. Steinberg, Ph.D.

I'm Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. My research focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, I also train clinicians in the use of motivational interviewing. I am active in the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) where I am a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. I am also a consulting editor for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.