Suzanne Mitchell
Oregon Health & Science University
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Suzanne H. Mitchell, Ph.D., is a Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, with secondary appointments in Psychiatry and in the Oregon Institute for Occupational health Science. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Hull, England and her Ph.D. at SUNY-Stony Brook, USA, focusing on the economics of foraging behavior of rats. During a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, Dr. Mitchell worked with Harriet de Wit, Ph.D. to conduct some of the earliest studies using behavioral economics to describe people’s use of alcohol, nicotine/cigarettes, and amphetamine in humans, and to develop procedures to measure delay discounting in rats. Afterwards, Dr. Mitchell was an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, before moving her lab to OHSU in 2001. Her research at OHSU focuses on identifying moderators and mediators of humans and rodent choice behavior, as well as examining the genetic and biological bases of delay discounting. Most recently she has returned to her earlier interests in energetic costs and her research has increased its scope to include effort-related decision-making in clinical populations. She has received funding for her research from various NIH institutes (NHLBI, NIAAA, NIDA and NIMH), has served on numerous study sections, and has received awards for education and mentoring. She has served as Science Board coordination for ABAI, President of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior and is currently Editor in Chief for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.