Conference planning leadership is
provided by a coordinating committee
consisting of:

Co-chairs

• David Jernigan, PhD, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (co-chair)
• Rebecca Ramirez, MPH, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (co-chair)
• James Mosher, JD, Alcohol Policy Consultations (immediate past co-chair)

Silver Gate Group staff
Tom Colthurst, Kathie Gorham, and Barbara Ryan in consultation with the following:

Scientific and policy advisers
Alcohol Policy 16 advisers reflect a diversity of interests and geography as well as an ongoing commitment to public health and safety and the role that policy plays in reducing the adverse consequences of alcohol use.

• Linda Bosma, Bosma Consulting
• John Clapp, PhD, San Diego State University
• Norman Giebrecht, PhD, Centre on Addiction and Mental Health
• Robert Lindsey, MEd, National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependency
• Mildred Maldonado-Molina, PhD, University of Florida Center for Alcohol Research
• Sarah Mart, MS, MPH, Alcohol Justice
• Tim Naimi, MD, MPH, Boston University School of Medicine
• Robert Nash Parker, PhD, Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, University of California, Riverside
• Robert Pezzolesi, MPH, New York Center for Alcohol Policy Solutions/New York Alcohol Policy Alliance
• Diane Riibe, Project Extra Mile
• Robert Saltz, PhD, Prevention Research Center
• Steve Schmidt, National Alcohol Beverage Control Association
• Michael Sparks, SparksInitiative: Working with communities to solve alcohol and drug problems
• Wayne Sugita, MPA, Los Angeles County Substance Abuse Prevention & Control
• Traci Toomey, PhD, University of Minnesota Alcohol Epidemiology Program
• Friedner Wittman, PhD, MArch, Clew Associates
• Thomas Workman, PhD, American Institutes for Research

Updated: 2013_04_03