Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Paul Greenbaum, PhDProfessor EmeritusPhone: 813-974-4553 |
Dr. Greenbaum recieved his MS degree from Boston University, his PhD from the University of Kansas, and his post-doctorate training in behavioral health from the University of Florida.
Dr. Greenbaum made significant contributions and garnered international recognition
for his work in children’s mental health and substance abuse research. Recognized
for his pioneering work in advanced statistical methods, he has served as the primary
statistician for the Department of Child and Family Studies and USF’s Alcohol and
Substance Use Research Institute. He has published studies in the areas of latent
growth curves, growth mixture modeling, hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis,
and structural equation modeling. Dr. Greenbaum is a member of the Prevention Science
Methodology Group (PSMG), a group of internationally recognized experts on methodology
led by directed by Dr. Hendricks Brown, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
at the University of Miami and Dr. Bengt Muthén, Professor Emeritus at the University
of California Los Angeles.
Dr. Greenbaum’s federal funding has included research sponsored by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Institute on Disabilities
and Rehabilitation Research, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Institute
of Education Sciences. He has served as a Consulting Editor for Psychological Assessment
since 2001 and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders.