Dr Raul Caetano
Dr Raul Caetano
Biography
Raul Caetano, MD, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology and Assistant Dean of the Houston School of Public Health, University of Texas. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii. From 1978 to 1998 he was at the Alcohol Research Group and the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 1998 he was Director of the Alcohol Research Group and Principle Investigator of a United States National Alcohol Research Center on the epidemiology of drinking problems. His research has focused on the epidemiology of alcohol consumption, drinking problems and domestic violence among US ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics. Another area of research is the epidemiology of alcohol dependence in community samples and the development of diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence.