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Virginia Commonwealth University

Addiction and Women’s Health: Advancing Research and Evaluation


About AWHARE



Lori Keyser-MarcusLori Keyser-Marcus, Ph.D.

Associate director, AWHARE
Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry

Phone: (804) 827-1727
Fax: (804) 827-1502
E-mail: lakeyser@vcu.edu

Lori Keyser-Marcus, Ph.D., associate director of AWHARE, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Division of Addiction Psychiatry. Currently, Keyser-Marcus is a co-investigator and coordinator on Dace Svikis’ REACH US infant mortality project, awarded by the Center for Disease Control. She received her doctorate in developmental psychology from VCU in 2004. Her research interests include youth tobacco use, perinatal addiction and familial substance use on child outcomes.