Dr. Natasha (Tasha) Wade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego and licensed clinical Psychologist. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Neuropsychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She completed her clinical internship at VA Puget Sound American Lake and her postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Diego. Dr. Wade has over a decade of experience researching the relationship between substance use and brain-behavior relationships. She is also interested in mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental changes related to substance use, screen/phone use, improving measurement methods, and toxicology. She actively mentors individuals at all training levels, from undergrads through post-docs, including within the SDSU-UCSD Clinical Psychology Joint Doctoral Program (https://psychology.sdsu.edu/doctoral/clinical/) and the NIAAA-funded SDSU T32 (https://niaaa-t32.sdsu.edu/).

Personal Interests: time with family, Great British Bake Off, tasty food, and naps

Email address: nwade at health dot ucsd dot edu

Dr. Alexander (Alex) Wallace is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychiatry. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Iowa where he worked in research labs focusing on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Adolescent/Young Adult (AYA) substance use. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Neuropsychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and completed his clinical internship in the neuropsychology track at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Wallace's research focus is on the effects of cannabis use on neurodevelopment in AYA populations and comorbid factors that moderate the effects of cannabis consumption. This work has led Dr. Wallace to research how health behaviors, subclinical ADHD symptoms, and periods of cannabis abstinence affect cognition, brain morphometry, and fMRI activation. More recently, Dr. Wallace has focused on looking at how toxicology markers of alcohol may play a role in cognition while on the SDSU/UCSD National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism T32 training grant.

Personal Interests: Running, video games, museums, the beach, and frequent naps

Email address: alwallace at health dot ucsd dot edu