Dr. Waldron is an assistant professor in the department of Counseling and Educational Psychology in the School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2004. Following internship, she completed a NIAAA-funded postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric genetics and genetic epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, where she currently maintains an adjunct appointment. Dr. Waldron’s research interests include family formation and dissolution risks associated with substance use disorder (SUD) and consequences for offspring, particularly during the adolescent years. In 2008, she was awarded a NIDA-funded career development award (K01) to examine genetic and environmental risks associated with early and problem substance use, focusing on the joint effects of parental SUD and parental separation. 

Ph.D. Clinical Psycholgy, January 2004, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

B.S. Psychology with Distinction, June 1995, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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• Knopik, V.S., Heath, A.C., Bucholz, K.K., Madden, P.A.F., & Waldron, M. (2009). Genetic and environmental influences on externalizing behavior and alcohol problems in adolescence: A female twin study. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior (91), 313-321.
• Waldron, M., Heath, A.C., Lynskey, M.T., Bucholz, K.K., Madden, P.A.F., & Martin, N. (in press). Smoking and illicit drug use associations with early versus delayed reproduction:  Findings in a young adult cohort of Australian twins. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
• Waldron, M., Martin, N., & Heath, A.C. (in press). Parental alcoholism and offspring behavior problems: Findings in Australian children of twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics.
• Agrawal, A., Grant, J.D., Littlefield, A., Waldron, M., Pergadia, M.L., Lynskey, M.T., Madden, P.A.F., Todorov, A., Trull, T., Bucholz, K.K., Todd, R.D., Sher, K., & Heath, A.C. (2009). Developing a quantitative measure of alcohol consumption for genomic studies on prospective cohorts. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (70), 157-167.
• Waldron, M., Heath, A.C., Bucholz, K.K., Madden, P.A.F., & Martin, N. (2008). Alcohol dependence and reproductive onset: Findings in two Australian twin cohorts. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, 32(11), 1865-1874.
• Heath, A.C., Lynskey, M.L., & Waldron, M. (2008). Child and adolescent substance use and substance use disorders. In M. Rutter & E.A. Taylor (Eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5th Edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Agrawal, A., Knopik, V.S., Pergadia, M.L., Waldron, M., Bucholz, K.K., Martin, N., Heath, A.C., & Madden, P.A.F. (2008). Correlates of cigarette smoking during pregnancy and its genetic and environmental overlap with nicotine dependence. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 19(4), 567-578.
• Waldron, M., Heath, A.C., Turkheimer, E., Emery, R., Bucholz, K.K., Madden, P.A.F., & Martin, N. (2008). Childhood sexual abuse moderates genetic influences on age at first consensual sexual intercourse in women. Behavior Genetics, 38(1), 1-10.

• Substance Use in Early Adolescence: Risks from Parental SUDs, Parental Separation - Mentored career development award to support research to characterize genetic and environmental risks associated with parental substance use disorder and parental divorce or non-cohabiting never-marriage on offspring early substance involvement. Provides for continued development of quantitative skills together with training in statistical analysis of epidemiological and molecular genetic data.