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Paul Marques, PhD, Behavioral Physiology/Psychopharmacology
Senior Research Scientist
Alcohol, Policy, and Safety Research Center
Calverton, Maryland

Phone: (301) 755-2723
Fax: (301) 755-2799
Email: marques@pire.org


Paul Marques has had a long-standing interest in scientifically-defensible approaches to drug abuse related problems. His interest in this field dates from before 1973 when he received a Ph.D. in drug dependence research from the University of Arizona. During the years 1973-1978 he received postdoctoral training at the University of Washington Departments of Medicine, and of Physiology & Biophysics, in Seattle studying central nervous system and neuroendocrine regulation. After these earlier years focusing on basic physiology and bench drug research, in 1988 he joined PIRE.

At PIRE he has conducted original research into societal problems related to drugs and alcohol. His public health and safety expertise has been built from research awards in areas related to mother and infant drug exposure studies, long-term child neurobehavioral and educational outcomes from drug exposure, alcohol ignition interlock studies, adolescent drug-involvement, alcohol impairment estimation, field-sobriety evaluation studies, treatment outcome studies, technical approaches to monitoring drug exposure, hair analysis of drugs and alcohol, treatment retention and long-term follow-up, alcohol managed care, evaluation of brief treatment interventions, and development and evaluation of computer-conversion of risk assessment screening tools. In 2005 active studies include: evaluating two different types of electrochemical transdermal alcohol monitoring devices, evaluation of hangover and fatigue on a computer-controlled manikin simulation of paramedic rescue skills, and a comprehensive effort to build driver risk profiles of DUI offenders by converging objective information from blood and hair alcohol biomarkers and patterned breath tests in the interlock record. This research has been supported by NIDA, NIAAA, RWJ and NHTSA. Marques is a member of 7 scientific societies including AAAS, RSA, CPDD, NYAS, & APA. He is a member of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Alcohol and Drugs; Marques is Chair of the Ignition Interlock Working Group of the ICADTS (International Council on Alcohol Drugs and Traffic Safety), and co-chair of the ICADTS Working Group on Alcohol Biomarkers. In 2007 Paul was awarded the annual Hingson Research to Practice Award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.


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