Warren K Bickel, Ph. D. CAR Director
Professor and Wilbur D. Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention
4301 West
Markham Street, Slot 843
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
Phone:
Fax: 501.526.7816 wbickel@uams.edu
PhD,
Developmental and child psychology, University of Kansas, 1983
MS, University of Kansas
BS, Psychology, State University of New York
Warren Bickel is
Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the
College of Medicine and College of Public Health (COPH) and holds the Wilbur D.
Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention. He serves as Director of
the UAMS Center for Addiction Research and as Director of COPH’s Center for the
Study of Tobacco Addiction at UAMS.In
these roles, he oversees the development of research addressing addiction and
tobacco dependence. Dr. Bickel received his Ph.D. in developmental and child
psychology in 1983 from the University of Kansas, completed post‑doctoral
training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1985, and then joined
the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1987, he relocated
to the University of Vermont where he became a Professor in the Departments of
Psychiatry and Psychology and Interim-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He
serves as Principal Investigator on several NIDA grants. His recent
research includes the application of behavioral economics to drug dependence
with an emphasis on the discounting of the future and the use of information
technologies to deliver science-based prevention and treatment. Dr. Bickel is
the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Joseph Cochin Young
Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), the
Young Psychopharmacologist Award from the Division of Psychopharmacology and
Substance Abuse of the American Psychological Association, and a NIH Merit Award
from NIDA. He served as President of the Division of Psychopharmacology and
Substance Abuse, American Psychological Association and as President of CPDD.
Dr. Bickel was Editor of the journal, Experimental and Clinical
Psychopharmacology, has co-edited three books, and published over 200
papers.
