Curricula Vitae

Alexa Anderson, PhD

  • Education
    • University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; 2014, Doctor of Philosophy – Experimental Psychology
    • University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; 2013, Master of Arts – Experimental Psychology
    • University of New England, Biddeford, ME; 2009, Bachelor of Science – Psychobiology
  • Significant continuing education
    • Summer Statistics Institute, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, May 2017
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 2014-2016
  • Academic and professional positions
    • Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; January 2019-present
    • Technical Writer/Editor, Research Service, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin; April 2018-January 2019
    • Research Psychologist, US Army Medical Research Directorate-West, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Tacoma, WA; July 2016-April 2018
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; July 2014-July 2016
    • Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; July 2009-June 2014
  • Peer-reviewed publications (select- see Google Scholar or PubMed for full publication record)
    • Mkandawire-Valhmu, L., Callari-Robinson, J., Schadewald, D., Abusbaitan, H., Pirsch, A., Luebke, J., Marquardt, L., Schubert, E., Kibicho, J., Anderson, A., Gondwe, K., Rice, E., Bement, K., Morgan, M., McClain, R., Kako, P., Raghe, F., & Dressel, A. (In press). A protocol for the safe recruitment of Indigenous and Black women experiencing intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic into a large mixed methods study: The Sisters by Choice study. Global Public Health
    • Lopez, A.A., Luebke, J., Redner, R., Abusbaitan, H., & Tarima, S. (In press). Substance Use Overdose Deaths among Black and Indigenous Women in Wisconsin: a Review of Death Certificate Data from 2018 to 2020. Journal of Addiction Medicine
    • Lopez, A.A., Dressel, A., Deal, E., Krueger, E., Graf, M., Pittman, B., Schmitt, M., Hawkins, M., Kako, P., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2023). Substance misuse themes among women living in transitional housing: effects on children, intimate partner relationships, and social relationships. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 34(2), 121-130.
    • Luebke, J., Kako, P., Lopez, A., Schmitt, M., Dressel, A., Klein, K., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2023). Barriers faced by American Indian women in urban Wisconsin in seeking help following experience of intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women, 29(11), 2080-2103.
    • Deal, E., Hawkins, M., Del Carmen Graf, M., Dressel, A., Ruiz, A., Pittman, B., Schmitt, M., Krueger, E., Lopez, A. A., Mkandawire-Vahlmu, L., & Kako, P. (2023). Centering our voices: Experiences of violence among homeless African American women. Violence Against Women, 29(9), 1582-1603. doi:10.1177/10778012221117599
    • Yingst, J., Wang, X., Lopez, A.A., Breland, A., Soule, E., Barnes, A., Cohen, J., Underwood, M., Crabtree, M., Foulds, J. (2023). Changes in nicotine dependence among smokers using electronic cigarettes to reduce cigarette smoking in a randomized controlled trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 25(3), 372-378. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac153/6618050
    • Hawkins, M., Lopez, A., Schmitt, M., Tamkin, V., Dressel, A., Kako, P., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. & Weinhardt, L. (2022). A qualitative analysis of perceptions of and reactions to COVID-19. Public Health Nursing, 39(4), 719-777. doi: 10.1111/phn.13052
    • Krueger, E., Deal, E., Lopez, A.A. (corresponding author), Dressel, A., Graf, M., Pittman, B., Schmitt, M., Hawkins, M., Kako, P., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2022). Successful substance use disorder recovery in transitional housing: Perspectives from African American women. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 30(5), 714-724. doi:10.1037/pha0000527
    • Graf, M., Dressel, A., Schmitt, M., Deal, E., Pittman, B., Lopez, A., Kako, P., Mkandawire-Valhmu, L. (2022). “I was broken in so many different ways:” The intersection of complex factors impacting homeless and at-risk African American women’s mental health and wellbeing. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 31(1), 167-178. doi: 10.1111/inm.12946
    • Foulds, J., Cobb, C.O., Yen, M.-Y., Veldeer, S., Brosnan, P., Yingst, J., Hrabovsky, S., Lopez, A.A., Allen, S., Bullen, C., Wang, X., Sciamanna, C., & Eissenberg, T. (2022). Effect of electronic nicotine delivery systems on cigarette abstinence in smokers with no plans to quit: exploratory analysis of a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 24(7), 955-961. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntab247
    • Cobb, C.O., Foulds, J., Yen, M.-S., Veldheer, S., Lopez, A.A., Yingst, J., Bullen, C., Eissenberg, T. (2021). Effect of an electronic nicotine delivery system with 0, 8, or 36 mg/ml liquid nicotine versus a cigarette substitute on tobacco-related toxicant exposure: a randomized controlled trial. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(8), 840-850. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00022-9
    • Cobb, C.O., Lopez, A.A., Soule, E.K., Yen, M.-S., Rumsey, H.E., Lester-Scholtes, R., Rudy, A.K., Lipato, T., Guy, M.C., Eissenberg, T. (2019). Influence of electronic cigarette liquid flavors and nicotine concentration on subjective measures of abuse liability in young adult cigarette smokers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 203, 27-34. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.05.024
    • Nighbor, T.D., Doogan, N.J., Roberts, M.E., Cepeda-Benito, A., Kurti, A.N., Priest, J.S., Johnson, H.K., Villanti, A.C., Lopez, A.A., Stanton, C.A., Gaalema, D.E., Redner, R., Parker, M.A., Keith, D.R., Quisenberry, A.J., Higgins, S.T. (2018). Smoking prevalence and trends in U.S. national samples of pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age in rural versus urban settings. PLoS One, 13(11), e0207818
    • Kurti, A.N., Bunn, J.Y., Villanti, A.C., Stanton, C.A., Redner, R., Lopez, A.A., Gaalema, D.E., Doogan, N.J., Cepeda-Benito, A., Roberts, M.E., Phillips, J.K., Quisenberry, A.J., Keith, D.R., Higgins, S.T. (2018). Patterns of single and multiple tobacco product use among U.S. women of reproductive age. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 20(S1), S71-S80. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nty024
    • Kurti, A.N., Redner, R., Bunn, J.Y., Nighbor, T., Lopez, A.A., Keith, D.R., Villanti, A.C., Stanton, C.A., Gaalema, D.E., Doogan, N.J., Cepeda-Benito, A., Roberts, M.E., Phillips, J., Parker, M., Quisenberry, A., Higgins, S.T. (2018). Examining the relationship between pregnancy and quitting tobacco products among a U.S. national sample of women of reproductive age. Preventive Medicine, 117, 52-60. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.08.019
    • Lopez, A.A., Redner, R., Kurti, A.N., Keith, D.R., Villanti, A.C., Stanton, C.A., Gaalema, D.E., Bunn, J.Y., Doogan, N.J., Cepeda-Benito, A., Roberts, M.E., Higgins, S.T. (2018). Tobacco and nicotine delivery product use in a U.S. national sample of women of reproductive age. Preventive Medicine, 117, 61-68. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.03.001
    • Lopez, A.A., Toblin, R.L., Riviere, L.A., Lee, J.D., Adler, A.B. (2018). Correlates of current and heavy smoking among US soldiers returning from combat. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(3), 215-222. doi: 10.1037/pha0000193
    • Kurti, A.N., Redner, R., Lopez, A.A., Keith, D.R., Villanti, A., Stanton, C.A., Gaalema, D.E., Bunn, J., Doogan, N.J., Cepeda-Benito, A., Roberts, M.E., Phillips, J., Higgins, S.T. (2017). Tobacco and nicotine delivery product use in a nationally representative sample of pregnant women. Preventive Medicine, 104, 50-56. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.07.030
    • Hiler, M., Breland, A., Spindle, T., Maloney, S., Lipato, T., Karaoghlanian, N., Shihadeh, A., Lopez, A., Ramôa, C., Eissenberg, T. (2017). Electronic cigarette user plasma nicotine concentration, puff topography, heart rate, and subjective effects: the influence of liquid nicotine concentration and user experience. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 25(5), 380-392. doi: 10.1037/pha0000140
    • Doogan, N.J, Roberts, M.E., Wewers, M.E., Stanton, C.A., Keith, D.R., Gaalema, D.E., Kurti, A.N., Redner, R., Cepeda-Benito, A., Bunn, J.Y., Lopez, A.A., Higgins, S.T. (2017). A growing geographic disparity: Recent urban and rural cigarette use trends in the United States. Preventive Medicine, 104, 79-85. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.03.011
    • Breland, A., Soule, E., Lopez, A., Ramôa, C., El-Hellani, A., Eissenberg, T. (2017). Electronic Cigarettes: What Are They and What Do They Do? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1394(1), 5-30. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12977. PMID: 26774031
    • Lopez, A.A., Hiler, M.M., Maloney, S.F., Eissenberg, T., Breland, A.B. (2016). Expanding clinical laboratory evaluation methods to loose-leaf tobacco vaporizers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 169, 33-40. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.10.005
    • Soule, E.K., Lopez, A.A., Guy, M.C., Cobb, C.O. (2016). Reasons for using flavored liquids among electronic cigarette users: a concept mapping study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 166, 168-76. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.07.007
    • Lopez, A.A., Cobb, C.O., Yingst, J., Veldhee, S., Hrabovsky, S., Yen, M.-S., Foulds, J., Eissenberg, T. (2016). A Transdisciplinary Model to Inform Randomized Clinical Trial Methods for Electronic Cigarette (ECIG) Evaluation. BMC Public Health, 16, 217. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2792-8. PMID: 26941050
    • Lopez, A.A., Hiler, M.M., Soule, E.K., Ramôa, C.P., Karoghalanian, N.V., Lipato, T., Breland, A.B., Shihadeh, A., Eissenberg, T. (2016). Effects of Electronic Cigarette Liquid Nicotine Concentration on Plasma Nicotine and Puff Topography in Tobacco Cigarette Smokers: A Preliminary Report. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 18(5), 720-723. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntv182. PMID: 26377515
    • Ramôa, C.P., Hiler, M.M., Spindle, T., Lopez, A.A., Karoghalanian, N.V., Lipato, T., Breland, A.B., Shihadeh, A. Eissenberg, T. (2016). Electronic Cigarette Nicotine Delivery can Exceed that of Combustible Cigarettes: A Preliminary Report. Tobacco Control, 25, e6-e9. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052447. PMID: 26324250
    • Lopez, A.A. & Eissenberg, T. (2015). Science and the Evolving Electronic Cigarette. Preventive Medicine, 80, 101-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.07.006. PMID: 26190363
    • Vurbic, D., Harder, V.S., Redner, R., Lopez, A.A., Phillips, J.K., Higgins, S.T. (2015). Co-Occurring Obesity and Smoking Among U.S. Women of Reproductive Age: Associations with Socioeconomic Status and Health Biomarkers and Outcomes. Preventive Medicine, 80, 60-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.05.020. PMID: 26051199
    • Lopez, A.A., Skelly, J.M., Higgins, S.T. (2015). Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Depression-Prone Pregnant and Newly Postpartum Women: Effects on Smoking Abstinence and Depression Ratings. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 17(4), 455-62. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntu193. PMID: 25762756
    • Lopez, A.A., Skelly, J.M., White, T.J., Higgins, S.T. (2015). Does Impulsiveness Moderate Response to Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation among Pregnant and Newly Postpartum Women. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 23(2), 97-108. doi: 10.1037/a0038810. PMID: 25730417
    • Higgins, S.T., Washio, Y., Lopez, A.A., Heil, S.H., Solomon, L.J., Lynch, M.E., Hanson, J.D., Higgins, T.M., Skelly, J.M., Bernstein, I.M. (2014). Examining Two Different Schedules of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant Women. Preventive Medicine, 68, 51-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.03.024. PMID: 24704135