Special Assistant to the President
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of Heads UP,
Responsible Drinking Project

Office of the President 

Telephone:
(310) 338 - 5238

E-mail:
jlabrie@lmu.edu

Joseph LaBrie, S.J., Ph.D., is currently serving as the Special Assistant to the President at Loyola Marymount University. His responsibilities include Jesuit recruitment and Mission issues, budget, faculty outreach, assisting in developing and implementing the revised CORE curriculum, community relations, fundraising, among other duties. He is also an Associate Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Heads UP research lab at LMU. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from USC in 2002, at which time he began working in the Student Psychological Services and teaching at LMU. In 2003, Dr. LaBrie founded Heads UP, a multi-dimensional research, prevention, and intervention project. The mission of the project is to promote a safe and healthy lifestyle among all students and to intervene with high-risk students to reduce dangerous levels of drinking and the incidence of problems resulting from heavy consumption. As part of this endeavor, Dr. LaBrie conducts rigorous research on adolescent and college-aged student health behaviors and disseminates this research to the broader scientific community. He is an expert on Emerging Adulthood and the various challenges and the rewarding growth that occurs during the age range of 18-25. He has served as the Principal Investigator on over 10 private and federal grants in support of the Heads UP program, totaling over $2.9 million, and to date, he has published 87 research articles in this area. Finally, Dr. LaBrie was recently recognized with a prestigious award from the American Psychological Association Division on Addictions for his Outstanding Early-Career Scientific Contributions to Psychological Science.