Colleen Corte, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Population Health Nursing Science
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845 S. Damen Ave., MC 802, Chicago, IL 60612
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About
Dr. Corte is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Population Health Nursing Science. She joined the faculty in the fall of 2004 and served as both Department Head and Director of the PhD program from 2017 until her retirement in 2021. She received the Distinguished Mentor of Faculty Award from UIC College of Nursing in 2021.
Dr. Corte’s program of research focuses on prevention of the development of alcohol use disorders by inhibiting the formation of a "drinker identity'--a powerful predictor of alcohol use. Remarkably, she and her colleagues found evidence of an emerging drinker identity in children as young as 9-12 years of age. In her work, she focuses on identifying modifiable precursors of the drinker identity in a variety of samples -- children, adolescents, and young adults. Corte has also extended her research to focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people because of their higher prevalence of heavy drinking and alcohol problems.
Dr. Corte has received recognition for her research from the Research Society on Alcoholism, the International Nurses Society on Addictions and the American Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance Use & Addictions. She currently serves as Deputy Editor of the journal entitled Substance Use and Addiction. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Corte is a certified Team-Based Learning Trainer (TBL) Trainer Consultant. She used TBL as the pedagogical approach in her doctoral courses. Dr. Corte taught Advanced Research Design for PhD students in the College of Nursing for 13 years. She served on 37 PhD dissertation committees (Chair for 11 students). She has co-authored 31 publications with her PhD students.
Professional Leadership
Deputy Editor, Substance Use & Addiction Journal
Board of Directors, International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing
Notable Honors
2016, Inducted as a Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
2016, Teaching Recognition Program Award, UIC Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
2017, Mentoring Award, UIC Graduate College
2018, Fellow, Institute of Medicine Chicago
2021, Distinguished Mentor of Faculty Award, UIC College of Nursing
2021, Betty Ford Award, American Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Substance Use and Addiction
Education
Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Michigan, Dept. of Addiction Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI
PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
BSN, Madonna College, Livonia MI
Professional Memberships
American Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance Use & Addiction (AMERSA)
Deputy Editor, Substance Use & Addiction Journal