Steven Yale Sussman

Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology

Email ssussma@usc.edu Office HSA 4124 Office Phone (626) 457-6635

Education

Tenure Track Appointments

Consultant, Antelope Valley Unified School District, Redondo Beach High School District, 01/01/1990 –

Consultant, J of Comp in Health Care, 01/01/1989 –

Consultant, Minnesota Dept. of Health, 01/01/1987 –

Assistant Professor of Research, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, USC, 01/01/1986 – 01/01/1988

Instructor, Hinds Junior College, Jackson, MS, 01/01/1984 –

Researcher, Brentwood VA Medical Center, Behavioral Medicine Program, 01/01/1984 – 01/01/1986

Research Associate, Health Behavior Research Institute, Univ. of Southern California, 01/01/1984 – 01/01/1986

Consultant, Dept. of Psychology, UIC, & WMAQ-TV, Chicago, 01/01/1984 – 01/01/1985

Psychology Resident, Mississippi medical Center & VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 01/01/1983 – 01/01/1984

Outside Review Board, Representative, Research in Social Psychology, 01/01/1982 – 01/01/1984
Summary Statement of Research Interests

Dr. Sussman’s primary research interest is in drug abuse prevention and cessation. He has twelve years’ experience in school-based adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention and cessation research, and has investigated the psychosocial predictors of drug use development, cessation, and relapse prevention. He is also interested in empirically based program development, and in differentiating the effects of condition credibility versus information content for eliciting successful program effects.