Viktor Lushin has extensive experience conducting research on adolescent risk behaviors and developing interventions. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at NYU Silver School of Social Work and has received several awards for his community service work. Lushin has been the principal investigator on several grants examining topics like underage drinking in Russia. He is currently a co-investigator on projects studying health and mental health factors among inner-city youth. Lushin has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on issues related to substance use, parenting, and adolescent development.

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CURRUCULUM VITAE
VIKTOR LUSHIN, M.D., Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)
SCHOOL ADDRESS
Silver School of Social Work
1 Washington Square North, Room 320
New York, New York 10003
Office phone: 917-517-5082
Email: vbl206@nyu.edu
EDUCATION
YEAR DEGREE INSTITUTION FIELD OF STUDY
2009-present
(Proposal: 2015)
PH.D. NYU Silver School of
Social Work New York, NY
Social Science,
Public Health
2005-2007 L.M.S.W. Adelphi University School of
Social Work, New York, NY
Social Work,
Policy Analysis
1983-1989 M.D. Leningrad Pavlov Medical
University
Medicine,
Public Health
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING
CURRENT REEARCH PROJECTS
Co-Investigator
All For One: Community Survey of Inner City Youth and Adults.
Grant # G-USDS-20141535, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation;
Citi Foundation.
Additional funds from New York City Council FY16 Discretionary Funding.
Duration of the study: July, 2015 to July, 2017.
Approximate amount of awards: $500,000 (direct costs).
The project examines multi-level factors that strengthen and, alternatively, undermine health,
mental health, and economic well-being among residents of one of the poorest urban
communities in the U.S. Barriers in a number of domains are investigated, with special focus on
functional impairments from mental health challenges, developmental disabilities, economic
adversities, and family processes, with an ultimate goal to design population-tailored
interventions. My investigative role in this project is predominantly dedicated to data analysis,
interpretation of findings, and report and academic paper writing.
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Co-Investigator (PIs: Dr. Daniel Alexandrov and Dr. Valeria Ivanyushina)
Production and Causal Dynamics of Health Risk Behaviors among Russian Vocational School
Students.
Institutional Research Grant, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Approximate amount of awards: $150,000 (direct costs).
The study examines causal dynamics and preventable antecedents of alcohol use, smoking, and
other risk behaviors among an at-risk population of Russian adolescents embedded in vocational
school and regular high school environments, with the focus on designing population-tailored
health and social policy and preventive interventions.
Principal Investigator/Program Evaluator
Addressing Parental Depression in Early Intervention: An Elicitation Survey of Clinicians.
Internal funding: University Settlement Early Intervention Program.
A mixed-method survey examines behavioral beliefs among Early Intervention (EI) clinicians
about the integration of a brief-therapy component into EI services to address depression among
parents of children with autism. Findings are likely to bolster effective implementation efforts.
PENDING RESEARCH PROJECTS (grant proposals have been submitted)
Principal Investigator
Strengthening Utilization of Early Intervention Services in Inner City Communities
HRSA-17-011 (R40 MCH Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies (FIRST))
Projected duration of the study: June, 2017 to June, 2019.
Approximate amount of awards: $300,000 (direct costs).
Children and youth in poverty-impacted urban communities are disproportionately affected by
the functional impairments from autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The present study will use
powerful decision-making science approach to identify the most important, modifiable socio-
behavioral determinants of parental actions leading to successful ASD screening and utilization
of EI services in low-SES communities where utilization of these services remains critically low;
to create evidence base for innovative and effective intervention.
Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Katherine Maurer)
Healthy Talk, Healthy Kids: A Technologically Reinforced Parent-Based Intervention
HRSA-17-011 (R40 MCH Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies (FIRST))
Projected duration of the study: June, 2017 to June, 2019.
Approximate amount of awards: $300,000 (direct costs).
Adolescents in poverty-affected communities are disproportionately vulnerable to health risk
behaviors. Parents in such communities tend to have less frequent communications with their
adolescent children about health risk behavior, a known deterrent of such behaviors. The proposed
study designs and empirically tests a technologically reinforced (mobile app) parent-based
intervention fostering parents’ health-themed communication with their pre-adolescent children.
Using state-of-the-art decision making science we will empirically derive strongest cognitive
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determinants of parental communicative engagement with their pre-adolescent children, and use
them as intervention targets. A modest-scale RCT (N=250) will test the efficacy of the intervention.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING
Research Scientist (PIs: Dr. James Jaccard and Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos)
Underage Drinking in Latino Youth.
Grant No. 5R01AA016212-03
National Institute of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse.
Duration of the study July2009 to July, 2015.
Approximate amount of award: $2,275,000 (direct costs)
The study examines multi-level, culturally specific determinants of alcohol use among Latino
adolescents embedded in the inner city environment in the U.S., with special focus on parental
behavior and parental influences.
Doctoral Research Trainee (PI/Mentor: Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos)
Reducing Sexual Risk Behavior: A Clinic Based Approach
Grant No. 1R01HD066159-01
National Institute of Child Health and Development
Duration of the study7/2010 - 6/2015
The study seeks to test and refine a parent-based intervention designed to prevent adolescent
sexual risk behavior in Latino and African American inner city populations.
Doctoral Research Trainee (PI/Mentor: Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos)
Affective Influences on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behavior: Couple & Family Contexts
National Institute of Child Health and Development
Grant No. 1R01HD064734-01
Duration of the study: 09/2010 – 06/2015
The project studies Latino and African American adolescents, their parents, and romantic
partners, to elucidate socio-contextual determinants of adolescent sexual risk behavior.
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS
Lushin, V., & O’Brien, K. H. (2016). Parental Mental Health: Addressing the Unmet Needs of
Caregivers for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of the American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(12), 1013-1015.
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Ivanyushina, V., Lushin, V., & Alexandrov, D. (2016). Academic help seeking among minority
and non-minority adolescents: A social capital outlook. Learning and Individual
Differences, 50, 283–290.
Lushin, V., Jaccard, J., & Ivanyushina, V. (In Press). Salient expectancies and underage binge-
drinking: An elicitation study among Russian vocational students. Journal of health
psychology.
Lushin, V., Jaccard, J., & Kaploun, V. (In Press). Message and the bottle: Parental monitoring,
adolescent dishonesty and underage drinking. Journal of Adolescence.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Lushin, V., Robles, G., Lee, J., & Quiñones, Z. (2013).
Emotions and cognitions as correlates of early adolescent sexual behavior in the United
States and Dominican Republic. AIDS and Behavior,17 (3), 961-75.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., McCarthy, K., Lushin, V., & Padilla, M. (2013). Taxonomy of
Caribbean tourism alcohol venues: Implications for HIV transmission. Drug and Alcohol
Dependence,132 (1-2), 238-243.
Lushin, V., Tulupyeva, T., & Tulupyev, А. (2012). Relative importance of predictor variables in
analysis of determinants of HIV risk behavior. Journal of St. Petersburg’s Institute of
Information of Russian Academy of Science.UDK311.2 + 616-036.22 (in Russian).
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Lushin, V., Martinez, R., Gonzalez, B., & McCarthy, K.
(2011). HIV risk behavior among youth in the Dominican Republic: The role of alcohol
and other drugs. Journal of International Physicians in AIDS Care,10 (6), 388-95.
Lushin, V., Anastas, J. (2010). Harm reduction in substance abuse treatment: Pragmatism as an
epistemology. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 11 (1), 96-99.
Lushin, V. (2010). Parental depression and parent-child reciprocal effects. In Birth and Life:
Clinical Psychology of Childhood, The Conference Anthology. St. Petersburg State
Pediatric Academy Press: St. Petersburg, Russia (in Russian).
Lushin, V. (2010). Parents' affective reactions to children’s stigmatizing mental health
onditions: A Review of international literature. In Alekhin, A. N. (Ed.). Proceedings of
the conference, Clinical Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Training, Russia State
University of Pedagogy Press, St. Petersburg, Russia (in Russian).
JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER EDITORIAL REVIEW
Lushin, V., Risman-Vayner, A. & Li, G. (Under Review). Implementing an anti-depressive brief
therapy component for parents of autism-affected children: An elicitation survey of Early
Intervention clinicians. Implementation Science.
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Lushin, V., Jaccard, J., Ivanyushina, V. & Alexandrov, D. (Under Review). Vocational
education paths, youth activities, and underage drinking in Russia: How early does the
trouble start? International Journal of Drug Policy.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Lushin, V., Tulupyeva, T., Tulupyev, А. (2012). The use of latent class analysis in the studies of
HIV risk behaviors and social networks. In P. M. Klachek (Ed.) Hybrid and Synergetic
Intellectual Systems:Theory and Practice. Kaliningrad, Russian Federation: Immanuil
Kant University Press (in Russian).
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2012 - present Adjunct Lecturer (Research Methods in Social Science)
NYU Silver School of Social Work, NY
2015 - present Research Consultant, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation,
Brooklyn, NY
2013 - present International Research Consultant, Russia's Higher School of Economics
(HSE), St. Petersburg (in the context of NYU-HSE international research
collaboration)
2009 - present Early Intervention ABA Therapist/Supervisor/Program Evaluator,
University Settlement EI; YAI/Life Start; City Pro Group,
New York, NY
2010 - 2012 Research Scientist/Data Analyst
NYU Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health
2010 - 2012 Therapy Group Leader, Program Evaluation Consultant
Dynamic Youth Community, an Adolescent Therapeutic Community, NY
2004 – 2009 Service Delivery and Outreach Manager / Social Worker
Comprehensive Care Management integrated health program for the aging
2003 – 2011 Youth and Health Issues Editor, Project Director, Talk Show Host
Russian Radio, NY, USA, and Novoye Russkoye Slovo, NY, USA
1995 – 2002 Physician / Alcohol Abuse Counselor,
Youth and Family Counseling Center Barrikada, St. Petersburg,
Russia
1993 – 1995 Adjunct Professor (Public Health Research, Human
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Development), Pavlov Medical University Nursing School, St.
Petersburg, Russia
1990 – 1993 Physician
St. Petersburg Hospital # 46 for the Aging, St. Petersburg,
Russia
TEACHING.
May, 2016
October, 2015
May, 2015
November, 2014
May, 2014
International Workshops
Russian Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Workshops: (1) Contemporary Decision Making Theory in Behavioral
Intervention Design; (2) Theory Construction and Strengthening One's
Intellectual Impact
Fall, 2012 -
Current
Adjunct Lecturer
NYU Silver School of Social Work
Courses taught: Research Methods in Social Sciences-II / Program and
Clinical Practice Evaluation, MSW Program
Summer, 2013 -
Present
Adjunct Lecturer
NYU Silver School of Social Work
Courses taught: Research Methods/Data Analysis in Social Sciences-I,
MSW;
Direct Practice (field supervision), MSW program
Spring, 2012 Visiting Lecturer w. Prof. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
NYU Silver School of Social Work
Courses taught: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Applied Data
Analytic Strategies, Ph.D. Program
Spring, 2011 Teaching Assistant to Dean Lynn Videka
NYU Silver School of Social Work
Courses taught: Research Methods in Social Sciences-I, MSW Program
1993 – 1995 Adjunct Professor
Pavlov Medical University Nursing School, St. Petersburg, Russia
Courses taught: Intro. Public Health, Human Development, Human
Behavior
AWARDS
2008 New York State Senate Excellence in Community Service Award
(for advocacy on behalf of adolescent drug offenders' for treatment as
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an alternative to incarceration, as New York Russian Radio talk show host)
2008 New York State Assembly Excellence in Community Service Award
(for dissemination of health and social wellness information among immigrant
populations, New York Russian Radio talk show host)
2008 Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Excellence in Community Service Award
(for educating immigrant populations on the issues of health and social
wellness, and advocacy work, as New York Russian Radio talk show host)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
JOURNALS REVIEWED FOR
• Journal of Research on Adolescence
• Clinical Social Work
PRESENTATIONS
2013 Research methods in studies of adolescent risk behavior.
Challenging Youth Studies from Within, an International Conference,
Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012 Adherence to HAART among HIV-positive youth in St. Petersburg, Russia.
American Public Health Association(APHA) Annual Conference
San Francisco, CA.
2012 Sexual risk behaviors among Dominican adolescents embedded in
differential ecological contexts.
Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) Annual Conference
Washington, DC.
2010 Parents' affective responses to children’s stigmatizing mental conditions:
Review of international literature
Clinical Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Training, an Annual Conference
St. Petersburg Pedagogic University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010 Parental depression and looping/circular effects.
Birth and Life: Clinical Psychology of Childhood, an Annual Conference
St. Petersburg State Pediatric Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 Characteristics of Russian nursing professionalism.
Russian and American Nursing Experience: An International Conference
Pavlov Medical University Nursing School, St. Petersburg, Russia
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Global mental health: Design and implementation of early intervention programs for
children with developmental disabilities in resource-poor areas; parental engagement.
• Adolescent risk behaviors; preventive and treatment interventions; with an emphasis on
underage drinking (efficacy trials; implementation research).
• Child and adolescent development in social environments (e.g. parenting, school, peer
networks, communities, etc.).
STATISTICS/ DATA ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE SKILLS
• Advanced knowledge of longitudinal modeling of population behaviors/characteristics.
• Advanced knowledge of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of latent class analysis (LCA) and latent profile analysis (LPA),
and multi-level approaches (HLM and regression mixture modeling), in the context of
SEM; and Cluster Analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of Relative Importance Analysis: Dominance Analysis and
Relative Weights methodologies.
• Experience working with large data sets.
• Advanced knowledge of Mplus, AMOS and SPSS computer software packages.
• Working knowledge of STATA and R computer software packages.
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