KENDALL J. BRYANT, Ph.D.

Kendall J. Bryant, Ph.D. is currently a health scientist in the Office of Collaborative Research and the coordinator for the HIV/AIDS research program at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). He has recently co-edited a book entitled “The Science of Prevention” published by the American Psychological Association. Before going to NIAAA in 1992, Dr. Bryant was a research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, where he conducted research on the diagnosis and treatment of substance abuse. Prior to that, Dr. Bryant was a research psychologist for the Department of Defense at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, where he designed and implemented psychological selection and screening programs.

Dr. Bryant received his graduate degree in personality assessment and quantitative psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Wesleyan University in 1976. He has carried out postdoctoral research in environmental and developmental psychology through the Institute of Human Development and the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley.