Marc L. Steinberg PhD

Dr. Marc Steinberg is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Tobacco Research & Intervention lab. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His research focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, he also trains clinicians in the use of motivational interviewing.

Dr. Steinberg is active in the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) where he serves on the Treatment Network’s Communications Committee and its Advisory Committee in addition to the SRNT Electronic Communications Committee. He is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.