Research Professor and Clinical Director
Dr. Kimberly Mallett is currently a research professor at Penn State University in the Prevention Research Center. Dr. Mallett received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2005 from the University of Washington. She is interested in developing and evaluating interventions aimed at reducing high-risk drinking and related consequences among college students. Her second area of interest is the prevention of skin cancer among high-risk populations. As part of her skin cancer research, Dr. Mallett is interested in enhancing communication between physicians and patients and looking at how it impacts behavior change among patients.
Selected Publications:
Mallett, K. A., Turrisi, R., Billingsley, E. Trager, B., Ackerman, S., Reavy, R., & Robinson, J. K. (2018). Evaluation of a brief dermatologist-delivered intervention vs usual care on sun protection behavior. JAMA Dermatology, 154(9), 1010-1016. PMCID: PMC6143040 [PubMed]
Mallett, K. A., Ackerman, S., Turrisi, R., & Robinson, J. (2015). Rates of sunburn among dermatology patients. JAMA Dermatology, 151(2), 231-232. PMCID: PMC4860264 [PubMed]
Mallett, K. A., Turrisi, R., Reavy, R., Sell, N., Waldron, K., Scaglione, N., & Ackerman, S. (2022). What predicts willingness to experience negative consequences in college student drinkers? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83(5), 704-711. PMCID: PMC9523755 [PubMed]
Mallett, K. A., Turrisi, R., Reavy, R., Russell, M., Cleveland, M., Hultgren, B., Larimer, M. E., Geisner, I. M., & Hospital, M. (2019). An examination of parental permissiveness of alcohol use and monitoring, and their associations with emerging adult drinking outcomes across college. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(4), 758-766. PMCID: PMC6521692 [PubMed]
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