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Austin Hahn PhD

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  • Assistant Professor
College
  • College of Medicine
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  • Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Academic Focus
  • Etiological factors underlying substance use and risky sexual behavior; intersection of trauma, substance use, and risk behaviors
  • Development and assessment of innovative intervention approaches
  • Advanced analytic approaches to understanding complex risk behavior
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Biography

Dr. Hahn received his bachelor's degree in child psychology from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Dakota. He completed a predoctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program at MUSC followed by a NIDA-supported postdoctoral fellowship in the Addiction Sciences Division. Dr. Hahn's program of research is focused on (1) identifying malleable risk factors underlying substance use and risky sexual behavior; (2) innovative intervention approaches for reducing substance use and risky sexual behavior; and (3) advanced analytic approaches to understanding complex risk behavior. Dr. Hahn's research has been supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He was previously supported by a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) K12 Career Development Award examining substance use and risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. He is currently funded on NIDA K23 Career Development Award to examine a mobile intervention to reduce co-occurring cannabis and alcohol use among treatment-seeking adolescents. In addition to his research, Dr. Hahn is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the SAMHSA-funded (Family Tree) Adolescent Substance Use Clinic in the Addiction Sciences Division.