Patrick M O'Malley, PH.D.

Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, and Lloyd D. Johnston are research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and are the lead investigators on the Monitoring the Future project. Schulenberg is also a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Peter Freedman-Doan is a research associate at the Institute. Emily E. Messersmith is a candidate in the combined doctoral program in education and psychology at the University of...See more

Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, and Lloyd D. Johnston are research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and are the lead investigators on the Monitoring the Future project. Schulenberg is also a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Peter Freedman-Doan is a research associate at the Institute. Emily E. Messersmith is a candidate in the combined doctoral program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan, and a research assistant at the Institute. Bachman, Johnston, and O'Malley, all social psychologists, have collaborated for a period of nearly four decades, directing the MTF project for more than three decades. Their publications include hundreds of journal articles, chapters, and reports. Their books include five volumes in the Youth in Transition series (based on an earlier longitudinal study--also widely cited), two books based on MTF panel analyses (published by Erlbaum in 1997 and 2002), and a long-standing series of reports of national survey results on drug use (published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse). Bachman, Johnston, and O'Malley are listed in the Institute for Scientific Information's Highly Cited Authors, meaning that they are in the top one half of one percent of cited authors, based on journal citations during 1980-1999. Schulenberg, a developmental psychologist, has been a collaborator on the MTF project since 1991 and is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and reports, as well as the senior editor of "Health Risks and Developmental Transitions During Adolescence" (Cambridge, 1997). See less