I am a fourth year graduate student at the University of Maryland working in the Center for Addiction, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). I received my B.A. from The George Washington University in 2001. After graduating I received a two year research fellowship at the National Institutes of Mental Health where I worked in the Section of Developmental Genetic Epidemiology under the direction of Dr. Kathleen Merikangas. I spent my first two and half years at the University of Maryland working with Dr. Deborah Beidel and Dr. Samuel Turner at the Maryland Center for Anxiety Disorders assisting in a treatment outcome study for adult social phobia before moving over to CAPER in January of 2006.

Although I spent my first two and a half years of graduate school studying anxiety disorders, my current research focus is primarily in the area of smoking. In particular, I am currently collecting data for my dissertation examining the role of distress tolerance as a predictor of smoking cessation outcome. I am also involved in a treatment-outcome study looking at the efficacy of behavioral activation as a treatment for depressed smokers.

Beidel, D., & Stipelman, B. (in press). Anxiety Disorders. In Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis. Turner, S.M., & Hersen, M. (Eds).

Merikangas, K.R., & Stipelman, B. (2004). Genetic Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders. In Neurobiology of Mental Illness, Charney, D.S., & Nestler, E.J. (Eds). New York: Oxford University Press, 710-719.

Daughters, S.B., Stipelman, B., Sargeant, M.N., Schuster, R., & Lejuez, C.W. (submitted). Antisocial Personality Disorder and Court-Mandated Treatment as Predictors of Treatment Dropout among Inner-city Substance Users in Residential Treatment. Journal of Substance Use Treatment

Stipelman, B., Tull, M., & Salters-Pedneault, K. (in preparation). Predictors of Comorbid Panic Attacks in GAD: An Examination of GAD Severity and Anxiety Sensitivity Dimensions.

Stipelman, B., Beidel, D., & Turner, S. (2006). Social Skills Deficit Versus Performance Inhibition in Socially Anxious Individuals. Poster in Preparation for Presentation at Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Florida.

Stipelman, B., Beidel, D., & Turner, S. (2005) Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children: Treatment Outcome for African American and Caucasian Children. Poster Presented at Anxiety Disorders Association of American, Washington.

Stipelman, B., Tull, M., & Salters-Pedneault, K. (2006). Predictors of Comorbid Panic Attacks in GAD: An Examination of GAD Severity and Anxiety Sensitivity Dimensions. Poster in Preparation for Presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Cognive and Behavioral Therapy, Illinois

Stipelman, B., Yu, K., Avenevoli, S., & Merikangas, K.R. (2003) Is There Sex-Specific Transmission of Anxiety Disorders? Poster Presented at American Psychopathological Association, New York.