Michelle L. Malkin
Michelle L. Malkin, JD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and the Director of the Gambling Research and Policy Initiative (GRPI) at East Carolina University. Dr. Malkin's research interests include a focus on gambling-related harms, gambling-motivated crime, and the gambling prevalence, behavior, and risk of under-researched populations. Her research has been recently published in the Journal of Gambling Studies and the Journal of Gambling Issues. She was awarded the 2022 Dr. Durand Jacobs Dissertation Award and the 2024 Denise Phillips Community Outreach and Multicultural Wellness Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling. She also was awarded the 2024 ECU Early Trendsetter Award for her research on gambling-related issues and ECU's Innovator of the Month Award for her creation and copyright of the Gambling-Motivated Crime Diversion Checklist.
David Ledgerwood
Dr. Ledgerwood is a clinical psychologist, Professor, and Director of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research Division in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. He is widely published in problem gambling in several areas focusing on cooccurring psychopathology, impulse control and executive function, treatment outreach, and treatment effectiveness. Dr. Ledgerwood has served on several grant review committees for problem gambling research, he has been Associate Editor for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and is currently Regional Assistant Editor for International Gambling Studies.