She completed a 2 year interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship at the Addiction Research Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Corte’s program of research is focused on the ‘drinker identity’ as a cognitive vulnerability for alcohol use in adolescents. She has focused on identifying modifiable precursors of the drinker identity in a variety of samples — children, adolescents, young adults, and sexual minority (LGBT) young people. Dr. Corte publishes and presents widely on her research. She has served on the Board of Directors for the International Nurses Society on Addictions and her research has been recognized by the Research Society on Alcoholism and the Midwest Nursing Research Society.