Melisa D. Rowland

Melisa D. Rowland, MD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the FSRC at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Rowland’s research interests focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating clinically effective family-based interventions for youth who present serious emotional and behavioral problems. She is the co-investigator of clinical and project implementation on a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that evaluates the relative effectiveness of three training protocols with increasing intensity in supporting the implementation of contingency management by practitioners treating adolescent substance abusers in the South Carolina mental health and substance abuse sectors. Dr. Rowland is also the co-investigator of clinical implementation for an Annie E. Casey Foundation–funded project designed to develop an evidence-based continuum of services for New York City youth with antisocial behaviors at risk of out-of-home placement.