Jarrod Ellingson, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor

Recognitions

• Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health (2017)
• Internship Leadership Award, Yale University School of Medicine (2016)
  Awarded by internship faculty at the School of Medicine for outstanding contributions to the doctoral internship program.

Research Interests

My research program consists of two broad aims addressing the causes and effects of substance use: 1) understanding the shared mechanisms of heavy substance use and co-occurring conditions; and 2) disentangling familial confounds from the causes and effects of substance use disorders.

Publications

• Boness CL, Korucuoglu O, Ellingson JM, Merrill AM, McDowell YE, Trela CJ, Sher KJ, Piasecki TM, Kerns JG. Twenty-first birthday drinking: Extreme-drinking episodes and white matter microstructural changes in the fornix and corpus callosum. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2019 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31789553
• Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Rhee SH, Hewitt JK, Corley RP, Lessem JM, Friedman NP. Investigating the causal effect of cannabis use on cognitive function with a quasi-experimental co-twin design. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Nov 2;:107712. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31753729
• Hutchison KE, Bidwell LC, Ellingson JM, Bryan AD. Cannabis and Health Research: Rapid Progress Requires Innovative Research Designs. Value Health. 2019 Nov;22(11):1289-1294. PubMed PMID: 31708066
• Ellingson JM, Bidwell LC, Hopfer CJ, Hutchison KE, Bryan AD. Correlates and Potential Confounds of Cannabis Withdrawal Among High-Risk Adolescents. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2019 Sep;80(5):557-562. PubMed PMID: 31603758
• Karoly HC, Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Feldstein Ewing SW. Exploring Cannabis and Alcohol Co-Use in Adolescents: A Narrative Review of the Evidence. J Dual Diagn. 2019 Sep 13;:1-17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31519143
• Hagerty SL, Ellingson JM, Helmuth TB, Bidwell LC, Hutchison KE, Bryan AD. An Overview and Proposed Research Framework for Studying Co-Occurring Mental- and Physical-Health Dysfunction. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2019 Jul;14(4):633-645. PubMed PMID: 31173535
• Ellingson JM, Corley R, Hewitt JK, Friedman NP. A prospective study of alcohol involvement and the dual-systems model of adolescent risk-taking during late adolescence and emerging adulthood. Addiction. 2019 Apr;114(4):653-661. PubMed PMID: 30398695
• Vergés A, Ellingson JM, Schroder SA, Slutske WS, Sher KJ. Intensity of Daily Drinking and Its Relation to Alcohol Use Disorders. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 Sep;42(9):1674-1683. PubMed PMID: 29894003
• Ellingson JM, Richmond-Rakerd LS, Statham DJ, Martin NG, Slutske WS. Most of the genetic covariation between major depressive and alcohol use disorders is explained by trait measures of negative emotionality and behavioral control. Psychol Med. 2016 Oct;46(14):2919-2930. PubMed PMID: 27460396
• Lee MR, Ellingson JM, Sher KJ. Integrating Social-Contextual and Intrapersonal Mechanisms of "Maturing Out": Joint Influences of Familial-Role Transitions and Personality Maturation on Problem-Drinking Reductions. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Sep;39(9):1775-87. PubMed PMID: 26247314
• Ellingson JM, Richmond-Rakerd LS, Slutske WS. Brief report: cognitive control helps explain comorbidity between alcohol use disorder and internalizing disorders. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2015 Jan;76(1):89-94. PubMed PMID: 25486397
• Ellingson JM, Goodnight JA, Van Hulle CA, Waldman ID, D'Onofrio BM. A sibling-comparison study of smoking during pregnancy and childhood psychological traits. Behav Genet. 2014 Jan;44(1):25-35. PubMed PMID: 24085497
• Ehlers CL, Gizer IR, Gilder DA, Ellingson JM, Yehuda R. Measuring historical trauma in an American Indian community sample: contributions of substance dependence, affective disorder, conduct disorder and PTSD. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Nov 1;133(1):180-7. PubMed PMID: 23791028
• Slutske WS, Ellingson JM, Richmond-Rakerd LS, Zhu G, Martin NG. Shared genetic vulnerability for disordered gambling and alcohol use disorder in men and women: evidence from a national community-based Australian Twin Study. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2013 Apr;16(2):525-34. PubMed PMID: 23527679
• Littlefield AK, Agrawal A, Ellingson JM, Kristjansson S, Madden PA, Bucholz KK, Slutske WS, Heath AC, Sher KJ. Does variance in drinking motives explain the genetic overlap between personality and alcohol use disorder symptoms? A twin study of young women. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2011 Dec;35(12):2242-50. PubMed PMID: 21790670
• Karoly HC, Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Feldstein Ewing SW. Exploring Cannabis and Alcohol Co-Use in Adolescents: A Narrative Review of the Evidence. J Dual Diagn. 2020 Jan-Mar;16(1):58-74. PubMed PMID: 31519143
• Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Rhee SH, Hewitt JK, Corley RP, Lessem JM, Friedman NP. Investigating the causal effect of cannabis use on cognitive function with a quasi-experimental co-twin design. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jan 1;206:107712. PubMed PMID: 31753729
• Bidwell LC, Ellingson JM, Karoly HC, YorkWilliams SL, Hitchcock LN, Tracy BL, Klawitter J, Sempio C, Bryan AD, Hutchison KE. Association of Naturalistic Administration of Cannabis Flower and Concentrates With Intoxication and Impairment. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020 Aug 1;77(8):787-796. PubMed PMID: 32520316
• Ellingson JM, Ross JM, Winiger E, Stallings MC, Corley RP, Friedman NP, Hewitt JK, Tapert SF, Brown SA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ. Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate-to-heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling-comparison study. Addiction. 2020 Sep 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32881239
• Winiger EA, Ellingson JM, Morrison CL, Corley RP, Pasman JA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ, Hewitt JK. Sleep Deficits and Cannabis Use Behaviors: An Analysis of Shared Genetics Using Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression and Polygenic Risk Prediction. Sleep. 2020 Sep 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32935850
• Ellingson JM, Littlefield AK, Wood PK, Sher KJ. Delineating Developmental Periods in Adulthood Suggests Age-Related Shifts in the Correlates of Alcohol Use and Problems. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 Feb;45(2):446-456. PubMed PMID: 33512731
• Lin D, Hutchison KE, Portillo S, Vegara V, Ellingson JM, Liu J, Krauter KS, Carroll-Portillo A, Calhoun VD. Association between the oral microbiome and brain resting state connectivity in smokers. Neuroimage. 2019 Oct 15;200:121-131. PubMed PMID: 31201984
• Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Frieser MJ, Corley RC, Hopfer CJ, Stallings MC, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA, Hewitt JK. The effects of cannabis use on physical health: A co-twin control study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Nov 27;230:109200. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34871975
• Gibson LP, Karoly HC, Ellingson JM, Klawitter J, Sempio C, Squeri JE, Bryan AD, Bidwell LC, Hutchison KE. Effects of cannabidiol in cannabis flower: Implications for harm reduction. Addict Biol. 2021 Aug 31;:e13092. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34467598
• Zik J, Deveney CM, Ellingson JM, Haller SP, Kircanski K, Cardinale EM, Brotman MA, Stoddard J. Understanding Irritability in Relation to Anger, Aggression, and Informant in a Pediatric Clinical Population. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Aug 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34438022
• Mueller RL, Ellingson JM, Bidwell LC, Bryan AD, Hutchison KE. Are the Acute Effects of THC Different in Aging Adults?. Brain Sci. 2021 May 1;11(5). PubMed PMID: 34062795
• Gibson LP, Gust CJ, Ellingson JM, YorkWilliams SL, Sempio C, Klawitter J, Bryan AD, Hutchison KE, Cinnamon Bidwell L. Investigating sex differences in acute intoxication and verbal memory errors after ad libitum cannabis concentrate use. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Jun 1;223:108718. PubMed PMID: 33866072
• Ellingson JM, Littlefield AK, Wood PK, Sher KJ. Delineating Developmental Periods in Adulthood Suggests Age-Related Shifts in the Correlates of Alcohol Use and Problems. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 Feb;45(2):446-456. PubMed PMID: 33512731
• Winiger EA, Ellingson JM, Morrison CL, Corley RP, Pasman JA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ, Hewitt JK. Sleep deficits and cannabis use behaviors: an analysis of shared genetics using linkage disequilibrium score regression and polygenic risk prediction. Sleep. 2021 Mar 12;44(3). PubMed PMID: 32935850
• Ellingson JM, Ross JM, Winiger E, Stallings MC, Corley RP, Friedman NP, Hewitt JK, Tapert SF, Brown SA, Wall TL, Hopfer CJ. Familial factors may not explain the effect of moderate-to-heavy cannabis use on cognitive functioning in adolescents: a sibling-comparison study. Addiction. 2021 Apr;116(4):833-844. PubMed PMID: 32881239
• Ellingson JM, Hinckley JD, Ross JM, Schacht JP, Bidwell L, Bryan AD, Hopfer CJ, Riggs P, Hutchison KE. The Neurocognitive Effects of Cannabis Across the Lifespan. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 2021 Nov 15:1-0.
• Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use: a longitudinal discordant twin study. Addiction. 2023 Jan;118(1):110-118. PubMed PMID: 36002928
• Watson KK, Bryan AD, Thayer RE, Ellingson JM, Skrzynski CJ, Hutchison KE. Cannabis Use and Resting State Functional Connectivity in the Aging Brain. Front Aging Neurosci. 2022;14:804890. PubMed PMID: 35221994
• Ross JM, Ellingson JM, Frieser MJ, Corley RC, Hopfer CJ, Stallings MC, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA, Hewitt JK. The effects of cannabis use on physical health: A co-twin control study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Jan 1;230:109200. PubMed PMID: 34871975
• Gibson LP, Karoly HC, Ellingson JM, Klawitter J, Sempio C, Squeri JE, Bryan AD, Bidwell LC, Hutchison KE. Effects of cannabidiol in cannabis flower: Implications for harm reduction. Addict Biol. 2022 Jan;27(1):e13092. PubMed PMID: 34467598
• Zik J, Deveney CM, Ellingson JM, Haller SP, Kircanski K, Cardinale EM, Brotman MA, Stoddard J. Understanding Irritability in Relation to Anger, Aggression, and Informant in a Pediatric Clinical Population. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2022 May;61(5):711-720. PubMed PMID: 34438022
• Rhee, S.H. & Ellingson, J. M. (in press). Alternative hypotheses regarding the association between early engagement in gambling and gambling-like activities and later problem gambling: A commentary on Richard and King. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
• Hinckley, J., Bhatia, D., Ellingson, J. M., Molinero, K., & Hopfer, C. (in press). The impact of recreational cannabis legalization on youth: The Colorado Experience. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s00787-022-01981-0
• Zellers, S. M., Ross, J. M., Saunders, G. R., Ellingson, J. M., Walvig, T., Anderson, J. E., ... & Vrieze, S. (in press). Recreational cannabis legalization has had limited effects on a wide range of adult psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes. Psychological Medicine.
• Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use: a longitudinal discordant twin study. Addiction. 2023 Jan;118(1):110-118. PubMed PMID: 36002928
• Zellers SM, Ross JM, Saunders GRB, Ellingson JM, Walvig T, Anderson JE, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Recreational cannabis legalization has had limited effects on a wide range of adult psychiatric and psychosocial outcomes. Psychol Med. 2023 Jan 5;53(14):1-10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36601811
• Rhee SH, Ellingson JM. Alternative hypotheses regarding the association between early engagement in gambling and gambling-like activities and later problem gambling - a commentary on Richard and King (2023). J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2023 Apr;64(4):689-692. PubMed PMID: 36720706
• Skrzynski CJ, Karoly H, Ellingson JM, Hagerty SL, Bryan AD, Hutchison KE. Comparing the Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention Versus Relapse Prevention for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Control Trial. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2023 Jul;84(4):560-569. PubMed PMID: 36971735
• Ross JM, Karoly HC, Zellers SM, Ellingson JM, Corley RP, Iacono WG, Hewitt JK, McGue M, Vrieze S, Hopfer CJ. Evaluating substance use outcomes of recreational cannabis legalization using a unique co-twin control design. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2023 Sep 3;49(5):630-639. PubMed PMID: 37262386
• Zellers S, Alexander J, Ellingson JM, Schaefer JD, Corley RP, Iacono W, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, McGue MK, Vrieze S. Limited psychological and social effects of lifetime cannabis use frequency: Evidence from a 30-year community study of 4,078 twins. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Jan;133(1):115-128. PubMed PMID: 38147055
• Davis CN, Markowitz JS, Squeglia LM, Ellingson JM, McRae-Clark AL, Gray KM, Kretschmer D, Tomko RL. Evidence for sex differences in the impact of cytochrome P450 genotypes on early subjective effects of cannabis. Addict Behav. 2024 Jun;153:107996. PubMed PMID: 38394959
• Hinckley JD, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, He JP, Bhatia D, Ellingson JM, Nguyenkhoa Vu B, Ries Merikangas K, Sakai JT. Cannabis Use Is Associated With Depression Severity and Suicidality in the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement. JAACAP Open. 2023 Jun;1(1):24-35. PubMed PMID: 37538853
• Ross JM, Karoly HC, Zellers SM, Ellingson JM, Corley RP, Iacono WG, Hewitt JK, McGue M, Vrieze S, Hopfer CJ. Addendum to "Evaluating substance use outcomes of recreational cannabis legalization using a unique co-twin control design". Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2023 Sep 3;49(5):684. PubMed PMID: 38014892

Professional Memberships

• Research Society on Alcoholism, Member
• American Psychological Association, Member
• Behavior Genetics Association, Member

Practice Locations

CeDAR - Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation
1693 N. Quentin St
Aurora, CO 80045
877-999-0538

CU Medicine Psychiatry - Outpatient Clinic
1890 N Revere Ct
Anschutz Health Sciences Bldg, Suite 4020
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-1000

Department of Psychiatry - Faculty and Staff Mental Health
1890 N Revere Ct
Anschutz Health Sciences Bldg, Suite 5242
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-4987

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Psychology
• Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, Specialized Training (2016)
• Relapse Prevention (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Specialized Training (2016)
• Motivational Interviewing, Specialized Training (2012)
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Specialized Training (2010)

Conditions & Treatments

• Substance Abuse - Alcoholism
• Substance Abuse
• Substance Abuse - Drug Abuse