Lisa Rey Thomas, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE Lisa Rey Thomas, Ph.D. PERSONAL Tribal Affiliation: Address: Tlingit Phone: (206) 897-1413 Fax: (206) 543-5473 Email: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute University of Washington Campus Box 354805 1107 NE 45 th Street, Suite 120 Seattle, Washington 98105-4631 lrthomas@u.washington.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Thomas focus is community-based participatory research with American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities to reduce health disparities and promote health and wellness in a culturally appropriate manner. She is particularly interested in access to appropriate care for mental health and substance misuse for AIAN individuals, families, and communities. EDUCATION 1997-2004 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 1986-1988 B.A. Psychology University of Washington, Seattle, Washington PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2007-present 2005-present Liaison, Clinical Trials Network: Pacific Northwest Node, Seattle Research Scientist, Co-investigator and Project Director, Healing of the Canoe project, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute University of Washington, Seattle 2007-2008 Principal Investigator and Conference Coordinator, Tribal Healing and Wellness Conference, Seattle LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 1 OF 8

2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle 2005 Evaluator and consultant, Cook Inlet Tribal Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska 2003-2004 Clinical Psychology Intern, PTSD Outpatient Clinic, Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Ward, Mental Health Outpatient Clinic, Memory Disorders Clinic, Veteran s Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Tacoma, Washington 2002-2003 Research Associate, Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR). University of Alaska Fairbanks 2001-2003 Evaluator and consultant, Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau 1999-2003 Research Associate, NIAAA grant, 1999-2003. People Awakening Project: Pathways to Alaska Native Sobriety, University of Alaska Fairbanks 1999-2003 Graduate Research Associate; NIAAA grant, Interventions for Adolescent Indian Drinking: Building Healthy Nations Project, Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington 1999-2000 Mental Health Counselor Trainee, Native American Counseling Center, Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle, Washington 1998-2000 Student Therapist, Psychological Services and Training Center, University of Washington, Seattle 1997-1999 Graduate Research Associate, Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle 1989-1990 Research Project Coordinator, Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Psychological Association Division 18, Psychologists in Indian Country Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues Division 27, Society for Community Research and Action; Division of Community Psychology Division 56, Trauma Psychology Society of Indian Psychologists Native Research Network LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 2 OF 8

COMMITTEES, TASK FORCES, PANELS & BOARDS 2008-present 2008-present 2007-present 2007-present 2007-present 2006-present 2006-present Member-at-Large, Division 45 Executive Committee, American Psychological Association 2011 National Multicultural Conference & Summit Planning Committee, American Psychological Association Chair, Division 18 Psychologists in Indian Country Section, American Psychological Association International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development, U.S. Steering Committee Native Research Network, Co-Chair Washington State Mental Health Transformation Grant Cultural Competency Task Group Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Children s Evidence-Based Practices Expert Panel 2005-2007 American Psychological Association s Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, 2007 Chair 2004-present Psychology of Diversity Specialty Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA TRAINING 2003 First National SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program Conference: Cultural Competence and Reducing Health Disparities 2003 APA Minority Fellowship Psychology Summer Institute, First Annual CONSULTATION 2005-2006 Consultant, Seattle Indian Health Board Youth Service Program 1999 Aberdeen Area Adolescent AOD Abuse Prevention System & Addictive Behaviors Research Center - Coordination and collaboration of research with alcohol and other drug abusing Native adolescents 1997 Consultant, A Briefing on Substance Abuse Treatment for Indian Youth, University of Washington, Seattle 1997 Consultant, People Awakening Project, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 1997 Consultant, Relapse Prevention with Adolescent Clients, Aberdeen Area Youth Regional Treatment Center, Addiction Treatment Workshop LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 3 OF 8

EDITORIAL CONSULTATION American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, Ad hoc Reviewer American Journal of Public Health, Ad hoc Reviewer Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Division 45, American Psychological Association, Ad hoc Reviewer- Journal of Consulting Psychology, Ad hoc Reviewer Psychological Bulletin, Ad hoc Reviewer GRANTS REVIEWED 2003 Reviewer, secondary peer review of the Mental Health and Community Safety Initiative Grant for American Indian and Alaska Native Children, Youth and Family. USPHS Indian Health Service. GRANTS AWARDED Principal Investigator, R01-NIH/NIDA, awarded September 2009. Project Title: Native Pathways to Sobriety: Pacific Northwest Oral Life Histories. Total Direct Costs: $618,546 Principal Investigator, R13-NIH/NCMHD, awarded April 2009. Project Title: Native Healing and Wellness Conference. Total Direct Costs: $48,750 Co-Investigator, R24-NIH/NCMD, awarded July 2008. Project Title: The Healing of the Canoe Phase II. Total Direct Costs: $1,956,510. PI: Dennis M. Donovan, PhD. Key Personnel, U10-NIH/NIDA, awarded 2001. Project Title: Clinical Trials Network: Pacific Northwest Node. Total Direct Costs: $1,404,660. Co-Investigator on supplemental grants (listed below): Methamphetamine Use Among American Indians (no parent study) Methamphetamine: Where Does It Fit in the Bigger Picture of Drug Use of American Indian and Alaska Native Communities and Treatment Seekers? Developing Research Capacity and Culturally Appropriate Research Methods: Community-Based Participatory Research Manual for Collaborative Research in Drug Abuse for American Indians and Alaska Natives Principal Investigator, R13-NIH/NCMHD, awarded July 2007. Project Title: Tribal Healing and Wellness Conference. Total Direct Costs: $50,000 Co-Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), awarded July 2007. Project Title: Planning Grant to Establish a Multi-Disciplinary Network Environment in Aboriginal Mental Health and Addictions Research. Total Direct Costs: $50,000. PI: Sherry Stewart, PhD LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 4 OF 8

Co-Investigator, R24-NIH/NCMHD, awarded September 2005. Project Title: The Healing of the Canoe. Total Direct Costs: $1,042,964. PI: Dennis M. Donovan, PhD HONORS & AWARDS American Psychological Association Minority Fellow 1997-98, 1998-9, 1999-2000 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Thomas, L. R., Donovan, D. M., and Sigo, R. L. W. (2009). Identifying community needs and resources in a Native community: A research partnership in the Pacific Northwest. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Thomas, L.R., Donovan, D.M., Sigo, R., Austin, L., & Marlatt, G.A. (2009). The community pulling together: A tribal community-university partnership project to reduce substance abuse and promote good health in a reservation tribal community. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 8(3), 283-300. Allen J., Mohatt, G., Fok, C.C., Henry, D., People Awakening Team (2009). Suicide prevention as a community development process: Understanding circumpolar youth suicide prevention through community level outcomes. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 68(3), 274-291. Alvarez, A.N., Blume, A.W., Cervantes, J.M., & Thomas, L.R. (2009). Tapping the wisdom tradition: Essential elements to mentoring students of color. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40(2), 181-188. Mohatt, G.V., Rasmus, S.M., Thomas, L.R., Allen, J., Hazel K., and Marlatt, G.A. (2007). Risk, resilience, and natural recovery: a model of recovery from alcohol abuse for Alaska Natives. Addiction, 103, 205-215. Mohatt, G.V., Thomas, L.R., & People Awakening Team (2006). Dilemmas in ethical research among Alaska Natives: A case example. In J.E. Trimble & C.B. Fisher (Eds.), The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities (pp. 93-115). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Allen, J., Mohatt, G.V., Rasmus, S.M., Hazel, K., Thomas, L., Lindley, S., and & People Awakening Team (2006). The tools to understand: Community as co-researcher on culture-specific protective factors for Alaska Natives. Journal of Prevention and Interventions in the Community, 32(1 & 2). Daisy, F.S., Thomas, L.R., & Worley, C. (1998). Alcohol abuse and harm reduction within the Native community. In G. A. Marlatt (Ed.), Harm reduction: Pragmatic strategies for managing high-risk behaviors. New York: Guilford Press. LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 5 OF 8

Mohatt, G.V., Rasmus, S.M., Thomas, L.R., Allen, J., Hazel, K., and Hensel, C. (2004). Tied together like a woven hat: Protective pathways to Alaska Native sobriety. Harm Reduction Journal, 1(10). OTHER PUBLICATIONS Thomas, L.R. (2004). The Influence of Significant Relationships on Sobriety Decisions and Sobriety Processes for Tlingit and Haida People. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Thomas, L. R. (Ed.). (2002). People Awakening Newsletter, 1(1 & 2) PRESENTATIONS March 2009 Alaska Native Health Research Conference. March 19, 2009. Presentation title: Taking the Tools Back Down from the Shelf. December 2008 National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities Community- Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Grantees Meeting, Washington, D.C. December 15, 2008. Presentation title: Healing of the Canoe: Community Pulling Together Charting a Life Guided by Tribal Tradition, Culture and Values. October 2008 American Public Health Association Conference, San Francisco, California. October 27, 2008. Presentation title: Community Pulling Together: Promoting Cultural Identity and Preventing Substance Abuse in a Tribal Community, as part of a symposium, American Indian and Alaska Native Health Issues from North to South. August 2008 Native Health Research Conference, Portland, Oregon. August 27, 2008. Presentation title: Community/Tribally Based Participatory Research: Developing trust in research partnerships to understand Native pathways to sobriety. August 2008 August 2008 August 2008 October 2007 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston. August 15, 2008. Presentation title: Lessons learned: A culturallygrounded CBPR program in a Tribal community. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston. August 15, 2008. Poster title: Preventing youth substance abuse and promoting cultural identity: A collaborative project between a tribal community and a research institution. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston. August 15, 2008. Poster title: Tribal Healing and Wellness Conference: Building bridges between conventional and indigenous science. 3rd Biennial Meeting of the International Network of Indigenous Health and Knowledge Development, Rotorua, Aotearoa, New Zealand, LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 6 OF 8

August 2007 June 2007 June 2007 October 2006 August 2006 August 2006 April 2006 August 2005 October 2007. Poster title: Tribal healing through Indigenous focused Community-Based Participatory Research practices. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, August 19, 2007. Chair, Symposium title: Reducing health disparities in a Native community: Healing of the Canoe. National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center Tribal Leader/Scholar Research Forum, Anchorage, Alaska, June 12, 2007. Presentation title: The Community Pulling Together: Preventing youth substance abuse and promoting cultural identity and belonging using community based participatory research methodology. Indian Health Service and Native Research Network 19th Annual Indian Health Research Conference: Multiple Perspectives on AI/AN Research Policy, Phoenix, Arizona, June 4-7, 2007. Presentation title: The community pulling together to prevent youth substance abuse and promote cultural identity and belonging. Blending Addiction Practice and Science: Bridges to the Future, annual NIDA conference, Seattle, October 16-17, 2006. Presentation title: Respecting the Science and Practice of American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, August 10-13, 2006. Chair, Symposium Title: Strategies for Successful Collaborative Research and Interventions with Native Communities. National Urban Indian Health Conference, Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle, August 2-3, 2006. Presentation title: Journeys of the Circle: Youth substance abuse prevention and intervention. Culturally Based Substance Abuse Treatment for American Indians/Alaska Natives and Latinos, University of Arizona School of Public Health conference. Poster title: The Community Pulling Together: A Tribal Community-University Partnership Project to Reduce Substance Abuse and Promote Good Health in a Reservation Tribal Community. 113 th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 18-21, 2005. Presentation title: The Influence of Significant Relationships on Sobriety Decisions and Sobriety Processes for Tlingit and Haida People, as part of a special symposium, New Directions in Ethnic Minority Research. May 2005 31 st Annual School on Addictions, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2-4, 2005. Presentation title: Journeys of the Circle: Canoe Journey, Life s Journey Intervention for At-Risk Native Youth. May 2005 31 st Annual School on Addictions, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2-4, 2005. Workshop title: Tied Together like a Woven Hat: Protective and Recovery Factors in Alaska Native Sobriety. LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 7 OF 8

May 2005 Alaska Native Best Practices Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 5-6, 2005. Presentation title: The People Awakening Project, University of Alaska Fairbanks. June 2004 March 2004 August 2002 April 2000 March 1999 Sept 1998 October 1997 27 th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 26 30, 2004. Symposium title: Uncharted Pathways: Innovative Research with Native North American Populations for Adolescence to Adulthood; presentation/poster title: Culture, Relationships and Sobriety Processes in Alaska Natives: A Participatory Research Model. Paper and poster presentation. Alaska Native Health Research Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, March 30-31, 2004. Tied Together Like a Woven Hat: Models for Protection and Recovery From Alcohol Abuse Among Alaska Natives. Paper presented. 110 th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, Ill, August 22-25, 2002. Symposium title: Protective Factors in Alaska Native Sobriety; presentation title: I Know You re Listening but do You Hear What I m Saying?: Participatory Action Research in Alaska Native Communities. Paper presented. Eighth Biannual Conference, Society of Research on Adolescents, Chicago, IL. Symposium title: American Indian Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use: Reports from Four Major Studies; presentation title: Sensation Seeking and Problem Alcohol Use in Urban Native Adolescents. Third Annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health National Conference, Seattle, WA. Panel title: Working Collaboratively With Rural Organizations; presentation title: Collaborative Research with an Urban Indian Health Organization. Alcohol Consumption and Indigenous People: An International Research Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia (discussant). 11 th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, New Orleans, LA. Panel title: The Racist Nature of Current Drug Policies; presentation title: Harm Reduction in Indian Country. LISA R. THOMAS, PH.D. CURRICULUM VITAE, PAGE 8 OF 8