WSU Spokane News

By Allison Benjamin, College of Nursing

SPOKANE, Wash. - John Roll, a Washington State University administrator and researcher, is the 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Applied Behavioral Research Award from the American Psychological Association (APA-Div. 25).

 

The APA recognized Roll’s work developing and disseminating evidence-based treatments for addiction. The selection committee said his work epitomizes the model of applied research: behavioral, technological, socially important, effective and generalizable.

 

Roll has established a highly cited body of published research on the treatment of addictive disorders. He applies behavior analytic techniques, including contingency management interventions—an incentive-based substance abuse treatment—for the treatment of drug abuse.

 

His research programs are funded through grants from a range of national and state agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. He has been appointed by Gov. Christine Gregoire as an executive commissioner on the Eastern State Hospital Advisory Board and as a vice chair of the Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse, among other professional service recognitions.

 

In addition to this award, the American Psychological Society (APS) and the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) awarded him fellow status earlier this year.

 

Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application. A recipient’s work must have made a national impact on the field of psychology beyond the local, state or regional level.

 

The ABAI fellow designation aims to recognize the most outstanding contributors to behavior analysis in one or more of the primary areas of research and scholarship, professional practice or teaching/administration/service. Since the ABAI created the fellows program in 2004, 76 individuals have earned this honor.

 

Roll is associate dean for faculty affairs in the WSU College of Nursing and associate vice provost for graduate education and scholarship in the Division of Health Sciences at WSU. He is director of the Program of Excellence in the Addictions at WSU. He holds faculty appointments in the departments of Psychology, Neuroscience and Health Policy Administration. He has appointments at the University of Washington in the departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine.

 
Founded in 1968, the WSU College of Nursing educates more than 1,000 students each year, one of the largest educators of nurses on the West Coast. WSU offers nursing degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level at five sites across the state of Washington. The college is active in research, supporting the health care needs of rural communities and providing students with interprofessional and simulated hands-on learning experiences.

 

Headquartered at WSU Spokane, the college partners with Eastern Washington University and Whitworth University to provide undergraduate education as part of the nation’s first, oldest and most comprehensive nursing education consortium.

 

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Contact:
Alli Benjamin, Marketing and Communications Manager, WSU College of Nursing, 509-324-7340, alli.benjamin@wsu.edu

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