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Katelyn Romm, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

katelyn-romm@ouhsc.edu

Katelyn Romm, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Romm is a life-span developmental psychologist with research expertise in understanding sociocontextual factors related to tobacco, cannabis, and other substance use, ranging from individual and interpersonal factors (e.g., psychological factors, substance-related perceptions, parenting behaviors) to macro-level factors, such as substance-related policy and advertising exposure.

Her research also aims to identify these associations as they occur over time among individuals at greatest risk for such use, including adolescents and young adults, as well as minoritized populations. The goal of her research is to identify factors that predict substance use initiation, escalation, and cessation to inform prevention and cessation efforts. Methodologically, she has expertise in large-scale survey studies involving both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, qualitative research, and secondary data analysis of national longitudinal datasets (e.g., PATH), as well as a range of statistical analyses (e.g., latent growth modeling, latent transition analysis, cross-lagged panel modeling, factor analysis, multilevel modeling). 

Education:

Degree Granting Institutions

  • West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, PhD, 2020, Life-span Developmental Psychology
  • Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, MS, 2015, Clinical Psychology
  • York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, BS, 2013, Psychology

Post Graduate Education

  • Completed a postdoctoral fellowship from 2020-2022 in the Department of Prevention and Community Health within the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

Funding:

Current

Principal Investigator
TSET Health Promotion Research Center Seed Grant
Elucidating Real-time Minority Stress Influences on Tobacco Use at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Rurality: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Direct Costs: $100,000
07/01/2023-06/30/2025

Principal Investigator
Stephenson Cancer Center, American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant
Elucidating Multilevel Influences on Tobacco Use at the Intersection of Sexual Orientation and Rurality
$50,000
02/01/2023-01/31/2024

Co-Investigator
TSET Health Promotion Research Center Seed Grant
Continuing Time-Sensitive Drug Abuse Research: Evaluating the Impact of Medical Cannabis
Legalization on Cannabis Attitudes, Substance Use Behaviors, and Related Health Behaviors in
Oklahomans
PI: Amy Cohn
Direct Costs: $100,000
07/01/2023-06/30/2025

Co-Investigator
National Cancer Institute, R01CA215155-01A1
Regulatory Impact on Vape Shops and Young Adults’ Use of ENDS
PI: Carla Berg
Direct Costs: $2,500,000
12/01/2017-11/30/2023
Consultant
National Institute on Drug Abuse, R01DA054751-01A1
Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer Behavior
MPIs: Carla Berg, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg
Direct Costs: $3,583,823
03/25/2022-02/28/2027

Completed

Principal Investigator
National Institute on Drug Abuse, F32DA055388-01
Parental Influences on Tobacco Use among Sexual Minority Young Adults in a New Market and Policy Landscape
05/13/2022-09/14/2022

Co-Investigator
National Institute on Drug Abuse, R56DA051232-01A1
Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer Behavior
MPIs: Carla Berg, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg
09/30/2021-09/29/2022

Select Publications:

1. Romm, K. F., Cohn, A. M., Wang, Y., & Berg, C. J. (2023). Psychosocial predictors of trajectories of
dual cigarette and e-cigarette use among young adults in the US. Addictive Behaviors, 141, 107658. doi:
10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107658

2. Romm, K. F., Cohn, A. M., Wang, Y., *Williams, R., & Berg, C. J. (2023). Disparities in trajectories of
dual cigarette and e-cigarette use across sexual orientation groups of young adult men and women in
the US. Addictive Behaviors, 145, 107763. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107763

3. Romm, K. F., *Dopke, C., Acosta Price, O., *Pannell, A., *Williams, R., & Berg, C. J. (2023). Parental
influences on tobacco use and likelihood of future use among sexual minority young adult women and
men in the US. American Journal on Addictions. doi: 10.1111/ajad.13418

4. Romm, K. F., Schleicher, N., Johnson, T. O., Wang, Y., *Pannel, A., *Williams, R., Berg, C. J., & Henriksen,
L. (2023). Rates of age verification of cigarette and e-cigarette purchases as a function of state T21
laws before and after implementation of the federal T21 law in the United States. Nicotine & Tobacco
Research. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad044

5. Romm, K. F., Childers, M. G., Douglas, A. E., Bray, B. C., Dino, G., & Blank, M. D. (2022). Transitions in
tobacco use profiles among adolescents: Results from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and
Health (PATH) Study Waves 3 and 4. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 232. 109272. doi:
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109272

6. Romm, K. F., Henriksen, L., Huang, J., Le, D., Clausen, M., Duan, Z., *Fuss, C., *Bennett, B., & Berg, C. J.
(2022). Impact of existing and potential e-cigarette flavor restrictions on e-cigarette use among young
adult e-cigarette users in 6 metropolitan areas. Preventive Medicine Reports, 28, 101901. doi:
10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101901

7. Romm, K. F., Huebner, D. M., Pratt-Chapman, M. L., Rodriguez-Diaz, C. E., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., & Berg, C. J.
(2022). Disparities in traditional and alternative tobacco product use across sexual orientation groups
of young adult men and women in the US. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 815-824. doi:
10.1080/08897077.2021.2010259

8. Romm, K. F., *Patterson, B., Wang, Y., Wysota, C. N., Bar-Zeev, Y., Levine, H., & Berg, C. J. (2022).
Drivers and passengers in vehicles driven under the influence of alcohol or marijuana: Behavior profiles
and risk factors among young adults in a longitudinal study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs,
83(3), 342-351. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2022.83.342

9. Romm, K. F., Turiano, N. A., Milstred, A. R., Bray, B. C., Dino, G., Doogan, N., & Blank, M. D. (2022).
Socioecological predictors of change in adolescent tobacco use across waves 1-4 of the Population
Assessment of Tobacco and Health study. Journal of Adolescent Health. doi: 10.1016
/j.jadohealth.2022.09.026

10. Romm, K. F., Wang, Y., Duan, Z., *Bennett, B., *Fuss, C., Ma, Y., Blank, M. D., Bray, B. C., Ahluwalia, J.
S., & Berg, C. J. (2022). Psychosocial predictors of longitudinal changes in tobacco and cannabis use
among young adults. Addictive Behaviors, 129(6), 107264. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.
107264

11. Romm, K. F., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., Wysota, C. N., Blank, M. D., Huebner, D. M., Roche, K. M., & Berg, C. J.
(2022). The reciprocal relationships of social norms and risk perceptions to cigarette, e-cigarette, and
cannabis use: Cross-lagged panel analyses among US young adults in a longitudinal study. Drug and
Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.10957

Full List of published works available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katelyn-Romm