Jessica Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-Substance Dependence

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Graduate School :
  • PhD, Florida International University (2017)
Undergraduate School:
  • BSc, James Madison University (VA) (2009)
Internship:
  • University of Florida Program (2017)
Department: Psychiatry-Substance Dependence

Publications

  • Tuvel AL, Winiger EA, Ross JM. A Review of the Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use on Physical Health. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2023 Jan;32(1):85-105. PubMed PMID: 36410908
  • Ross JM, Karoly HC, Zellers SM, Ellingson JM, Corley RP, Iacono WG, Hewitt JK, McGue M, Vrieze S, Hopfer CJ. Addendum to "Evaluating substance use outcomes of recreational cannabis legalization using a unique co-twin control design". Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2023 Sep 3;49(5):684. PubMed PMID: 38014892
  • Riggs P, Hinckley JD, Ross JM. Addressing Cannabis Use During Adolescence. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2023 Dec;46(4):xiii-xv. PubMed PMID: 37879841
  • Tuvel AL, Winiger EA, Ross JM. A Review of the Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use on Physical Health. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2023 Dec;46(4):719-739. PubMed PMID: 37879834
  • Ross JM, Karoly HC, Zellers SM, Ellingson JM, Corley RP, Iacono WG, Hewitt JK, McGue M, Vrieze S, Hopfer CJ. Evaluating substance use outcomes of recreational cannabis legalization using a unique co-twin control design. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2023 Sep 3;49(5):630-639. PubMed PMID: 37262386
  • Thompson EL, Adams AR, Pacheco-Colón I, Lopez-Quintero C, Limia JM, Pulido W, Granja K, Paula DC, Gonzalez I, Ross JM, Duperrouzel JC, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. An exploratory follow-up study of cannabis use and decision-making under various risk conditions within adolescence. Neuropsychology. 2023 Jul;37(5):544-556. PubMed PMID: 36939602
  • Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Walvig T, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Recreational cannabis legalization has had limited effects on a wide range of adult psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes. Psychol Med. 2023 Jan 5;53(14):1-10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36601811
  • Riggs P, Hinckley JD, Ross JM. Addressing Cannabis Use During Adolescence. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2023 Jan;32(1):xiii-xv. PubMed PMID: 36410909
  • Tuvel AL, Winiger EA, Ross JM. A Review of the Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use on Physical Health. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2023 Jan;32(1):85-105. PubMed PMID: 36410908
  • Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use: a longitudinal discordant twin study. Addiction. 2023 Jan;118(1):110-118. PubMed PMID: 36002928
  • Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use: a longitudinal discordant twin study. Addiction. 2022 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36002928
  • Martz ME, Heitzeg MM, Lisdahl KM, Cloak CC, Ewing SWF, Gonzalez R, Haist F, LeBlanc KH, Madden PA, Ross JM, Sher KJ, Tapert SF, Thompson WK, Wade NE. Individual-, peer-, and parent-level substance use-related factors among 9- and 10-year-olds from the ABCD Study: Prevalence rates and sociodemographic differences. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2022 Jun;3. PubMed PMID: 35445220
  • Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Frieser MJ, Corley RC, Hopfer CJ, Stallings MC, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA, Hewitt JK. The effects of cannabis use on physical health: A co-twin control study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Jan 1;230:109200. PubMed PMID: 34871975
  • Pacheco-Colón I, Lopez-Quintero C, Coxe S, Limia JM, Pulido W, Granja K, Paula DC, Gonzalez I, Ross JM, Duperrouzel JC, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. Risky decision-making as an antecedent or consequence of adolescent cannabis use: findings from a 2-year longitudinal study. Addiction. 2022 Feb;117(2):392-410. PubMed PMID: 34184776
  • Sullivan RM, Wade NE, Wallace AL, Tapert SF, Pelham WE, Brown SA, et al. Substance use patterns in 9 to 13-year-olds: Longitudinal findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports. 2022;5:100120. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100120.
  • Chaarani, B., Hahn, S., Allgaier, N., Adise, S., Owens, M. M., Juliano, A. C., Yuan, D. K., Loso, H., Ivanciu, A., Albaugh, M. D., Dumas, J., Mackey, S., Laurent, J., Ivanova, M., D. J. Hagler, D. J., Cornejo, M. D., Hatton, S., Agrawal, A., Aguinaldo, L., Ahonen, L., Aklin, W., Anokhin, A. P., Arroyo, J., Avenevoli, S., Babcock, D., Bagot, K., Baker, F. C., Banich, M. T., Barch, D. M., Bartsch, H., Baskin-Sommers, A., Bjork, J. M., Blachman-Demner, D., Bloch, M., Bogdan, R., Bookheimer, S. Y., Breslin, F., Brown, S., Calabro, F. J., Calhoun, V., Casey, B. J., Chang, L., Clark, D. B., Cloak, C., Constable, R. T., Constable, K., Corley, R., Cottler, L. B., Coxe, S., Dagher, R. K., Dale, A. M., Dapretto, M., Delcarmen-Wiggins, R, Dick, A. S., Do, E. K., Dosenback, N. U. F., Dowling, G. J., Edwards, S., Ernst, T. M., Fair, D. A., Fan, C. C., Feczko, E., Feldstein-Ewing, S. W., Florsheim, P., Foxe, J. J., Freedman, E. G., Friedman, N. P., Friedman-Hill, S., Fuemmeler, B. F., Glavan, A., Gee, D. G., Giedd, J., Glantz, M., Glaser, P., Godino, J., Gonzalez, M., Gonzalez, R., Grant, S., Gray, K. M., Haist, F., Harms, M. P., Hawes, S., Heath, A. C., Herringa, S., Heitzeg, M. M., Hermosillo, R., Herting, M. M., Hettema, J. M., Hewitt, J. K., Heyser, C., Hoffman, E., Howlett, K., Huber, R. S., Hestis, M. A., Hyde, L. W., Iacono, W. G., Infante, M. A., Irfanglu, O., Isaiah, A., Iyengar, S., Jacobus, J., James, R., Jean-Francois, B., Jernigan, T., Karcher, N. R., Kaufman, A., Kelley, B., Kit, B., Ksinan, A., Kuperman, J., Laird, A. R., Larson, C., LeBlanc, K., Lessov-Schlagger, C., Lever, N., Lewis, D. A., Lisdahl, K., Little, A. R., Lopez, M., Luciana, M., Luna, B., Madden, P. A., MAes, H. H., Makowski, C., Marshall, A. T., Mason, M. J., Matochik, J., McCandliss, B. D., McGlade, E., Montoya, I., Morgan, G., Morris, A., Mulford, C., Murray, P., Nagel, B. J., Neale, M. C., Neigh, G., Nencka, A., Noronha, A., Nixon, S. J., Palmer, C. E., Pariyadath, V., Paulus, M. P., Pelham, W. E., Pfefferbaum, D., Pierpaoli, C., Prescot, A., Prouty, D., Puttler, L. I., Rajapaske, N., Rapuano, K. M., Reeves, G., Renshaw, P. F., Riedel, M. C., Rojas, P., de la Rosa, M., Rosenberg, M. D., Ross, J. M., Sanchez, M., Schirda, C., Scholoesser, D., Schulenberg, J., Sher, K. J., Sheth, C., Shilling, P. D., Simmons, W. K., Sowell, E. R., Speer, N., Spittel, M., Squeglia, L. M., Sripada, C., Steinberg, J., Striley, C., Sutherlan, M. T., Tanabe, J., Tapert, S. F., Thompson, W., Tomko, R. L., Uban, K. A., Vrieze, S., Wade, N. E., Watts, R., Weiss, S., Wiens, B. A., Williams, O. D., Wilbur, A., Wing, D., Wolff-Hughes, D.,, Yang, R., Yurgelun-Todd, D. A, Zucker, R. A., Potter, A., H., Garavan, H. P., & the ABCD Consortium (2021). Baseline brain function in the pre-adolescents of the ABCD study. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00867-9.
  • Lisdahl, K., Tapert, S., Sher, K. J., Gonzalez, R., Nixon, S. J., Feldstein Ewing, S. W., Conway, K. P., Wallace, A., Sullivan, R., Hatcher, K. Kaiver, C., Thompson, W., Reuter, C., Bartsch, H., Wade, N. E., Jacobus, J., Albaugh, M. D., Allgaier, N., Anokhin, A. P., Bagot, K., Baker, F. C., Banich, M. T., Barch, D. M., Baskin-Sommers, A., Breslin, F. J., Brown, S. A., Calhoun, V., Casey, B. J., Chaarani, B., Chang, L., Clark, D. B., Cloak, C., Constable, R. T., Cottler, L. B., Dagher, R., Dapretto, M., Dick, A., Do, E. K., Dosenbach, N. U. F., Dowling, G. J., Fair, D. A., Florshein P., Foxe, J. J., Freedman, E. G., Friedman, N., Garavan, H. P., Gee, D. G., Glantz, M. D., Glaser, P., Gonzalez, M. R., Gray, K. M., Grant, S., Haist, F., Hawes, S., Herringa, S. G., Hermosillo, R., Herting, M. M., Hettema, J. M., Hewitt, J. K., Heyser, C., Hoffman, E. A., Howlett, K. D., Huber, R. S., Huestis, M. A., Hyde, L. W., Iacono, W. G., Isaiah, A., Ivanova, M. Y., James, R. S., Jernigan, T. L., Karcher, n. R., Kuperman, J. M., Laird, A. R., Larson, C. L., LeBlanc, K. H., Lopez, M. F., Luciana, M., Luna, B., Maes, H. H., Marshall, A. T., Mason, M. J., McGlade, E., Morris, A. S., Mulford, C., Nagel, B. J., Neigh, G., Palmer, C. E., Paulus, M. P., Pecheva, D., Prouty, D., Potter, A., Puttler, L. I., Rajapakese, N., Ross, J. M., Sanchez, M., Schirda, C., Schulenberg, J., Sheth, C., Shilling, P. D., Sowell, E. R., Speer, N., Squeglia, L., Sripada, C., Steinberg, J., Sutherland, M. T., Tomko, R., Uban, K., Vrieze, S., Weiss, S. R. B., Wing, D., Yurgelun-Todd, A., Zucker, R. A., Heitzeg, M. M., & ABCD Consortium (2021). Substance use patterns in 9-10 year olds: Baseline findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108946.
  • Friedman NP, Rhee SH, Ross JM, Corley RP, Hewitt JK. Genetic and environmental relations of executive functions to antisocial personality disorder symptoms and psychopathy. Int J Psychophysiol. 2021 May;163:67-78. PubMed PMID: 30576766
  • Paulich KN, Ross JM, Lessem JM, Hewitt JK. Screen time and early adolescent mental health, academic, and social outcomes in 9- and 10- year old children: Utilizing the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development ? (ABCD) Study. PLoS One. 2021;16(9):e0256591. PubMed PMID: 34496002
  • Ross JM, Rieselbach MM, Hewitt JK, Banich MT, Rhee SH. Children's Knowledge of Cannabis and Other Substances in States with Different Cannabis Use Regulations. Subst Use Misuse. 2021 Sep 5;:1-8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34486481
  • Pacheco-Colón I, Lopez-Quintero C, Coxe S, Limia JM, Pulido W, Granja K, Paula DC, Gonzalez I, Ross JM, Duperrouzel JC, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. Risky decision-making as an antecedent or consequence of adolescent cannabis use: findings from a 2-year longitudinal study. Addiction. 2021 Jun 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34184776
  • Karoly HC, Ross JM, Prince MA, Zabelski AE, Hutchison KE. Effects of cannabis use on alcohol consumption in a sample of treatment-engaged heavy drinkers in Colorado. Addiction. 2021 Sep;116(9):2529-2537. PubMed PMID: 33464670
  • Ellingson JM, Ross JM, Winiger E, Stallings MC, Corley RP, Friedman NP, Hewitt JK, Tapert SF, Brown SA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ. Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate-to-heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling-comparison study. Addiction. 2021 Apr;116(4):833-844. PubMed PMID: 32881239
  • Ellingson JM, Ross JM, Winiger E, Stallings MC, Corley RP, Friedman NP, Hewitt JK, Tapert SF, Brown SA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ. Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate-to-heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling-comparison study. Addiction. 2020 Sep 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32881239
  • Hawes SW, Pacheco-Colón I, Ross JM, Gonzalez R. Adolescent Cannabis Use and Conduct Problems: The Mediating Influence of Callous-Unemotional Traits. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2020 Jun;18(3):613-627. PubMed PMID: 32742245
  • Ross JM, Pacheco-Colón I, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. Bidirectional Longitudinal Associations Between Cannabis Use and Body Mass Index Among Adolescents. Cannabis Cannabinoid Res. 2020 Mar 1;5(1):81-88. PubMed PMID: 32322679
  • Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Rhee SH, Hewitt JK, Corley RP, Lessem JM, Friedman NP. Investigating the causal effect of cannabis use on cognitive function with a quasi-experimental co-twin design. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jan 1;206:107712. PubMed PMID: 31753729
  • Karoly HC, Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Feldstein Ewing SW. Exploring Cannabis and Alcohol Co-Use in Adolescents: A Narrative Review of the Evidence. J Dual Diagn. 2020 Jan-Mar;16(1):58-74. PubMed PMID: 31519143
  • Waschbusch DA, Willoughby MT, Haas SM, Ridenour T, Helseth S, Crum KI, Altszuler AR, Ross JM, Coles EK, Pelham WE. Effects of Behavioral Treatment Modified to Fit Children with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional (CU) Traits. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2020 Sep-Oct;49(5):639-650. PubMed PMID: 31166145
  • Ross, J. M., Duperrouzel, J.C., Pacheco-Colon, I, Gonzalez, R. (2020). Psychosocial: Substance Use: Street Drugs. In (Eds. Paul, Salminen, Heaps, Cohen), The Wiley Health Psychology Handbook. Volume I: Biological Bases of Health Behavior. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, UK.
  • Ross, J. M., Duperrouzel, J.C., Pacheco-Colon, I, Gonzalez, R. (2020). Psychosocial: Substance Use: Street Drugs. In (Eds. Paul, Salminen, Heaps, Cohen), The Wiley Health Psychology Handbook. Volume I: Biological Bases of Health Behavior. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, UK.
  • Ross JM, Granja K, Duperrouzel JC, Pacheco-Colón I, Lopez-Quintero C, Hawes SW, Gonzalez R. Risky sexual behavior among adolescents: The role of decision-making, problems from cannabis use and externalizing disorder symptoms. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2019 Apr;41(3):300-311. PubMed PMID: 30520343
  • Pacheco-Colón I, Coxe S, Musser ED, Duperrouzel JC, Ross JM, Gonzalez R. Is Cannabis Use Associated with Various Indices of Motivation among Adolescents?. Subst Use Misuse. 2018 Jun 7;53(7):1158-1169. PubMed PMID: 29272172
  • Friedman, N. P., Rhee, S. H., Ross, J.M., Corley, R.P., & Hewitt, J.K. (2018). Genetic and environmental relations of executive functions to antisocial personality symptoms and psychopathy. International Journal of Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.12.007.
  • Ross JM, Graziano P, Pacheco-Colón I, Coxe S, Gonzalez R. Decision-Making Does not Moderate the Association between Cannabis Use and Body Mass Index among Adolescent Cannabis Users. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2016 Oct;22(9):944-949. PubMed PMID: 27079834
  • Ross JM, Duperrouzel J, Vega M, Gonzalez R. The Neuropsychology of Risky Sexual Behavior. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2016 Jul;22(6):586-94. PubMed PMID: 27173086
  • Ross JM, Coxe S, Schuster RM, Rojas A, Gonzalez R. The moderating effects of cannabis use and decision making on the relationship between conduct disorder and risky sexual behavior. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2015;37(3):303-15. PubMed PMID: 25832553
  • Levine, A.J., Ross, J.M., Gonzalez, R., Martin, E. (2015). Neurocognitive functioning in HIV-infected substance users. In: Hope T., Stevenson M., Richman D. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY.
  • Sibley MH, Pelham WE, Molina BSG, Coxe S, Kipp H, Gnagy EM, Meinzer M, Ross JM, Lahey BB. The role of early childhood ADHD and subsequent CD in the initiation and escalation of adolescent cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use. J Abnorm Psychol. 2014 May;123(2):362-374. PubMed PMID: 24886010
  • Sibley, M.H., Altszuler A.R., Ross, J.M., Sanchez, F., Pelham, W.E., & Gnagy, E.M. (2014). A group-based parent-teen collaborative intervention for high school students with ADHD. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 21, 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2013.06.003.
  • Babinski DE, Sibley MH, Ross JM, Pelham WE. The effects of single versus mixed gender treatment for adolescent girls with ADHD. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2013;42(2):243-50. PubMed PMID: 23330787
  • Sibley, M.H., Ross, J.M., Gnagy, E.M., Dixon, L., Conn, B., & Pelham, W.E. (2013). An intensive summer treatment program for ADHD reduces parent-adolescent conflict. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment, 35, 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-012-9314-5.
  • Sibley MH, Pelham WE Jr, Mazur A, Gnagy EM, Ross JM, Kuriyan AB. The effect of video feedback on the social behavior of an adolescent with ADHD. J Atten Disord. 2012 Oct;16(7):579-88. PubMed PMID: 21836162
  • Sibley, M.H. Pelham, W.E., Evans, S.W., Gnagy, E.M., Ross, J.M., & Greiner, A.R. (2011). An evaluation of a summer treatment program for adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 18, 530-544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2010.09.002.
  • Karoly, H. C., Ross, J. M., Prince, M. A, Zabelski, A. E., & Hutchison, K. E. (in press). Effects of cannabis use on alcohol consumption in a sample of treatment-engaged heavy drinkers in Colorado. Addiction.
  • Ross, J. M., Ellingson, J. M., Frieser, M. J., Corley, R. P., Hopfer, C. J., Stallings, M. C., Wadsworth, S. J., Reynolds, C. A., & Hewitt, J. K. (2021). Effects of cannabis use on physical health using a co-twin control design. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
  • Herting, M., Fan, C.C., Marshall, A., Smolker, H., Gonzalez, M. R., Tapert, S. F., Barch, D. M., Sowell, E., Dowling, G. J., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Ross, J. M., & Thompson, W. K. (2021). Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study linked external data (LED): Protocol and practices for geocoding and assignment of environment data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Ellingson, J. M., Hinckley, J. D., Ross, J. M., Schacht, J. P., Bidwell, L. C., Bryan, A. D., Hopfer, C. J. Riggs, P. R., & Hutchison, K. E. (2021). The neurocognitive effects of cannabis across the lifespan. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports.
  • Ross JM, Karoly, HC, Zellers, SW, Ellingson, JM, Corley, RP, Iacono, WG, Hewitt, JK, McGue, M, Vrieze, S, & Hopfer, CJ. Evaluating substance use outcomes of recreational cannabis legalization using a unique co-twin control design. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in press.
  • Zellers SW, Ross, JM, Saunders, GRB, Ellingson, JM, Walvig, T, Anderson, JE, Corley, RP, Iacono, W, Hewitt, JK, Hopfer, CJ, McGue, M, & Vrieze, S. Recreational cannabis legalization has had limited effects on a wide range of adult psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes. Psychological Medicine. in press.
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Specialties
  • Psychology

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Graduate Schools:
  • PhD, Florida International University (2017)
Undergraduate Schools:
  • BSc, James Madison University (VA) (2009)
Internships:
  • University of Florida Program (2017)
Department: Psychiatry-Substance Dependence
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