Aaron White
Aaron White, PhD is a research psychologist trained in the neurosciences. His graduate research at Miami University (in Ohio) and post-doctoral work at Duke University Medical Center focused on the effects of alcohol and other drugs on brain function and brain development.
From 2001 to 2008, Dr. White was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Medical Psychology, at Duke University Medical Center. During that time, his research expanded to include individual and community wide education and prevention efforts aimed at promoting healthy adolescent brain development. While at Duke he helped create a successful online alcohol education and prevention program, called AlcoholEdu, for college students. The course has been completed by more than 1,000,000 students to date.
He recently published a successful parenting guide, Keeping Adolescence Healthy: Exploring the Issues Facing Today’s Kids and Communities, which examines the science behind issues like the developmental impact of videogame violence, media and body image, adolescent psychological disorders, drinking and drug use, and more. In the fall of 2008, he joined the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism where he continues his work promoting healthy adolescent brain and psychological development. Over the years, he has appeared on several major news networks in the US and overseas, published more than 40 scientific manuscripts and spoken at the request of several foreign governments.