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