Dr. Jason Kilmer is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UW. Throughout his career, Jason has worked in both the student affairs world and the research world. In each professional position he has held, he has split his time between research related to reducing harms associated with substance use by college students and directly serving and supporting students and colleagues in divisions of Students Affairs or Student Life.

At UW’s Center for the Study of Health & Risk Behaviors (CSHRB), Jason serves as an investigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol, cannabis, and other drug use by college students. In addition to research and teaching, Jason has worked extensively with college students and campus professionals around alcohol and other drug prevention programming both at UW and on over 150 campuses nationwide. 

Jason has been project faculty for several international learning collaboratives, including Dartmouth’s National College Health Improvement Program, the NCAA’s (later NASPA’s) 360 Proof program, and, to support campuses in their implementation of the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) program, the International Town and Gown Association’s (ITGA’s) partnership with UW’s BASICS Innovations Group. Jason was part of the development team for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s College Alcohol Intervention Matrix (CollegeAIM).

Jason was the 2014 recipient of the National Prevention Network’s Award of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the prevention field and was the 2017 recipient of the Washington State Prevention Professional Award of Excellence. Jason was the 2024 recipient of The Montana Institute’s Science of the Positive National Leadership Award and the 2025 recipient of NASPA’s George D. Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research.