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Department of Epidemiology

College of Public Health and Health Professions & College of Medicine

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Catalina Lopez-Quintero

Catalina Lopez-Quintero

Assistant Professor

Department: PHHP-COM EPIDEMIOLOGY
Business Phone: (352) 273-6086
Business Email: catalinalopezqui@mail.ufl.edu

Publications

2020
‘Time to first tobacco cigarette soon after waking’ occurs more often among underage newly incident smokers in the United States, 2004-2017.
Addictive behaviors
2020
Sex differences in driving under the influence of cannabis: The role of medical and recreational cannabis use.
Addictive behaviors
2019
Adolescent cannabis use and its associations with decision-making and episodic memory: Preliminary results from a longitudinal study.
Neuropsychology
2019
Decision-Making as a Latent Construct and its Measurement Invariance in a Large Sample of Adolescent Cannabis Users.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
2019
Risky sexual behavior among adolescents: The role of decision-making, problems from cannabis use and externalizing disorder symptoms.
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology
2018
Age of onset or age at assessment-that is the question: Estimating newly incident alcohol drinking and rapid transition to heavy drinking in the United States, 2002-2014.
International journal of methods in psychiatric research
2018
The association between adolescent cannabis use and anxiety: A parallel process analysis.
Addictive behaviors
2018
Transition to drug co-use among adolescent cannabis users: The role of decision-making and mental health.
Addictive behaviors
2018
Young, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and born in the USA: at excess risk of starting extra-medical prescription pain reliever use?
PeerJ
2017
Cannabis Epidemiology: A Selective Review.
Current pharmaceutical design
2017
Newly incident cannabis use in the United States, 2002-2011: a regional and state level benchmark.
PeerJ
2016
HIV testing practices among Latina women at risk of getting infected: a five-year follow-up of a community sample in South Florida.
AIDS care
2015
Drug use disorders in the polydrug context: new epidemiological evidence from a foodborne outbreak approach.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2015
Influence of mother-daughter attachment on substance use: a longitudinal study of a Latina community-based sample.
Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
2015
Mortality among heroin users and users of other internationally regulated drugs: A 27-year follow-up of users in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program household samples.
Drug and alcohol dependence
2015
Prevalence and determinants of resistance to use drugs among adolescents who had an opportunity to use drugs.
Drug and alcohol dependence
2013
Online health information seeking among Jewish and Arab adolescents in Israel: results from a national school survey.
Journal of health communication
2012
Drug use opportunities as opportunities for drug use prevention: Bogotá, Colombia a case in point.
Drug and alcohol dependence
2012
Quality of online health information about oral contraceptives from Hebrew-language websites.
Israel journal of health policy research
2011
Probability and predictors of remission from life-time nicotine, alcohol, cannabis or cocaine dependence: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
2011
Probability and predictors of transition from first use to dependence on nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine: results of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC).
Drug and alcohol dependence
2011
The epidemiology of volatile substance misuse among school children in Bogotá, Colombia.
Substance use & misuse
2010
Effects of risk perception of marijuana use on marijuana use and intentions to use among adolescents in Bogotá, Colombia.
Drug and alcohol dependence
2010
Limited English proficiency is a barrier to receipt of advice about physical activity and diet among Hispanics with chronic diseases in the United States.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
2009
Hand washing among school children in Bogotá, Colombia.
American journal of public health
2009
Limited English proficiency is a barrier to receipt of advice about physical activity and diet among Hispanics with chronic diseases in the United States.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
2007
Alcohol drinking patterns and prevalence of alcohol-abuse and dependence in the Israel National Health Survey.
The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences
2006
Racial/ethnic disparities in report of physician-provided smoking cessation advice: analysis of the 2000 National Health Interview Survey.
American journal of public health
2005
Barriers to HIV-testing among Hispanics in the United States: analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2000.
AIDS patient care and STDs

Grants

Sep 2018 ACTIVE
Drug use disparities among Hispanics: elucidating the complex interactions between socio-cultural, neurocognitive and drug use-related factors
NATL INST OF HLTH NIDA · Principal Investigator

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-6086
Emails:
Business:
catalinalopezqui@mail.ufl.edu