Faculty Scholar

Brian P. Flaherty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Washington
125 Guthrie, Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
Phone: 513-636-7204
Fax: 513-636-8844
Email: bxf4@u.washington.edu 

Brian Flaherty is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, a position he began in the fall of 2005. He is conducts both methodological and substantive research in the health and social sciences.
With respect to statistical and methodological research, Brian's current work focuses on modeling change over time and measurement. Specifically, much of his work has involved using the latent class model to address questions in both areas. With respect to substantive research, much of his work involves examining substance use onset and dependence.

Brian was a graduate student in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. As a graduate student, Brian was primarily affiliated with The Methodology Center at Penn State, studying psychometrics, latent variable modeling, and the analysis of change. During graduate school, Brian began working with members of the Robert Wood Johnson Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence (TERN). Through his work with TERN, he developed a keen interest in tobacco research, particularly the onset of tobacco use and the development of dependence. Following graduate school, he continued his methodological and substantive research as a TERN Faculty Scholar and a Research Scientist at The Methodology Center at Penn State. In the Fall of 2004, he was invited to participate in National Cancer Institute's Tobacco and Health Disparities Research Network.