John W. Finney, PhD

John Finney's Curriculum Vitae (63.7KB, modified January 2006)

John Finney is a consulting professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, director of the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and a CHP/PCOR associate. His research has focused largely on conceptually driven, process-outcome evaluations of treatment programs for substance use disorder. To synthesize research on alcohol treatment outcomes, he was the principal investigator for a project that examined 701 alcohol treatment outcome studies reported between 1970 and 1998. In addition to determining the methodological quality of the studies, the project focused on the relative effectiveness of various psychosocial treatment modalities, inpatient versus outpatient treatment, and brief interventions versus usual care in medical settings or more extensive care in specialized settings. Attempting to glean evidence for matching patients to treatments has been a focus in both his treatment evaluation and research synthesis projects.

Finney has served on advisory boards for National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Research Centers in Michigan and California, and for the Treatment Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a fellow in the Addictions Division of the American Psychological Association. He received a BA in psychology from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in social psychology/ personality from the University of Colorado.

Publications

• • • Regression to the Mean in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Research

    • John W. Finney

• • • Addiction vol. 103 (2007)

• • • Rating Methodological Quality: Toward Improved Assessment and Investigation

    • Anne Moyer, John W. Finney

• • • Accountability in Research vol. 12, 4 (2005)

• • • Limitations in using existing alcohol treatment trials to develop practice guidelines

    • John W. Finney

• • • Addiction vol. 95, 10 (2000)

• • • Evaluating substance abuse treatment process models: I. Changes on proximal outcome variables during 12-step and cognitive-behavioral treatment

    • John W. Finney, Noyes CA, Coutts AJ, Rudolf H. Moos

    • Journal of Studies on Alcohol vol. 59, 4 (1998)

• • • The cost-effectiveness of treatment for alcoholism: a second approximation

    • John W. Finney, Monahan SC

    • Journal of Studies on Alcohol vol. 57, 3 (1996)