Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
EDUCATION | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC | B.S. | 1993 | Biology | | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC | B.S. | 1996 | Pharmacy | | SE Regional Medical Center, Lumberton, NC | Residency | 1997 | Pharmacy | | West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV | Ph.D. | 2001 | Pharmacology | | Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | Postdoctoral | 2008 | Addiction Biology |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | 1996-1997 | ASHP Pharmacy Practice Resident, Southeastern Regional Medical Center, Lumberton, NC | | 1997-2001 | Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV | | 2001-2005 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 2006-2008 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 2008-present | Research Assistant Professor, Center for Drug and Alcohol Problems, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| 1992-1996 | University of North Carolina Dean’s List | | 1994 | Summer Research Assistantship, Cancer Education Program, UNC Hospitals | | 1999-2000 | WVU School of Medicine (SoM) Graduate Stipend | | 1999-2001 | West Virginia University (WVU) Doctoral Student Travel Awards | 1999-
present | Member, Society for Neuroscience | | 2000 | International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Travel Award | | 2000 | WVU SoM Academic Achievement Award (Highest GPA) | | 2005 | Research Society on Alcoholism Junior Investigator Award | 2005-
present | Member, Research Society on Alcoholism |
CERTIFICATIONS
| 1996-present | NC Registered Pharmacist License #13482 | | 2002-present | SC Registered Pharmacist License #010599 |
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Cook-Easterwood J, Middaugh LD, Griffin WC, 3rd, Khan I & Tyor WR. Highly active antiretroviral therapy of cognitive dysfunction and neuronal abnormalities in SCID mice with HIV encephalitis. Experimental Neurology 205(2):506-512, 2007.
Griffin WC, 3rd, Middaugh LD & Becker HC. Voluntary ethanol drinking in mice and ethanol concentrations in the nucleus accumbens. Brain Research 1138:208-213, 2007. Griffin WC, 3rd, Middaugh LD & Tyor WR. Chronic cocaine exposure in the SCID mouse model of HIV encephalitis. Brain Research 1134(1):214-219, 2007. Griffin WC, 3rd, Randall PK & Middaugh LD. Intravenous cocaine self-administration: Individual differences in male and female C57BL/6J mice. Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior 87(2):267-279, 2007. Burattini C, McGeehan AJ, Griffin WC, 3rd, Gass JT, Kinder JR, Janak PH & Olive MF. A microdialysis study of extracellular levels of acamprosate and naltrexone in the rat brain following acute and repeated administration. Addiction Biology 13(1):70-79, 2008. Camarini R, Griffin WC, 3rd, Yanke AB, Rosalina Dos Santos B & Olive MF. Effects of adolescent exposure to cocaine on locomotor activity and extracellular dopamine and glutamate levels in nucleus accumbens of DBA/2J mice. Brain Research 1193:34-42, 2008. |
