Marc L. Steinberg, PhD

Marc L. Steinberg, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Tobacco Research & Intervention lab. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Training Director for the Doctoral Psychology Internship Program at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care at Piscataway. The majority of his research focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. Dr. Steinberg is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research and a Consulting Editor for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.