Dr. Megan Moreno is tenured professor and interim chair in the Department of Pediatrics. Nationally, Moreno is co-medical director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Center of Excellence: Creating a Healthy Digital Ecosystem for Children and Youth. She has served as a reviewer for more than 30 journals in the fields of pediatrics, adolescent health, medical education, digital health, behavioral health, and public health and currently serves as associate editor of JAMA Pediatrics and editorial board member for the Journal of Adolescent Health. She is the recipient of dozens of honors and awards, including an AAP Council of Communications and Media’s Holroyt-Sherry Award for Career Achievement (2020), an American Pediatrics Society Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award (2021–2022), and a UW–Madison WARF Kellett Mid-Career Fellowship (2021).

Graduate Training: Health Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (2023)

Dissertation Title: The effect of viewing different modalities of alcohol-related social media content shared by friends on alcohol outcomes: A longitudinal examination (NIH-NIAAA F31 Awardee)

Undergraduate: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Interests: In-person and online social influences on alcohol use among young adults; social network and longitudinal methods; developing alcohol interventions for young adults which also focus on the impact of alcohol-related social media.

Rose Marie Ward, PhD joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) on July 1, 2022 as Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College.  Ward has extensive administrative experience in graduate education including financial and strategic planning, development of new degree and certificate programs, and cross-college and programmatic engagement.

Prior to UC, Ward worked at Miami University for 20 years and held several positions including Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Interim Associate Provost and Dean for Graduate Studies. Throughout her career Ward has championed and established many diversity and graduate student support programs and services and earned notable awards for her teaching and research. She has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles in the areas of college student alcohol consumption and campus sexual assault.

Ward holds a B.S. in psychology and communication from Juniata College and both a master’s and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Rhode Island.

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.