Jordan Gette, PhD

Professional Background

Jordan Gette, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Gette joined the KU Medical faculty in January 2025 and is primarily focused on research to better assess cannabis use and its associations with adverse outcomes including cannabis use disorder and co-occurring mental health disorders. Clinically, Dr. Gette works with patients on a variety of presenting concerns, particularly trauma-related disorders and substance use disorders.

Dr. Gette has a B.A. in Psychological Sciences from Gustavus Adolphus College, an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech University, and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech University with a Graduate Certificate in Psychological Methods and Analysis. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Rutgers University Center for Alcohol and Substance Use Studies.

Dr. Gette is credited with more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. She is a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Mental Health R01 examining the effectiveness of intensive prolonged exposure among individuals with substance use disorders. Dr. Gette actively collaborates on Project Harmony, an R01 funded via the National Institute of Drug Abuse, aimed at better understanding treatment mechanisms for co-occurring substance use and PTSD across more than 40 randomized controlled trials. She recently completed a pilot grant from the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies utilizing ecological momentary assessment to characterize relations between momentary distress and cannabis use behavior for which she was Co-PI. Her professional affiliations include, but are not limited to, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence, The American Psychological Association (APA), APA Division 50, The Research Society on Marijuana, and the Research Society on Alcoholism.

• BA, Psychology, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
• MA, Clinical Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• PhD, Clinical Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• Internship, Psychology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Clinical Psychology, Rutgers Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, New Brunswick, NJ

• Kansas Psychological Association, Member, 2025 - Present
• Women in Science and Medicine, Member, 2025 - Present
• College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Member, 2023 - Present
• Division 50, American Psychological Association, Member, 2022 - Present
• Rutgers Addiction Research Center, Member, 2022 - Present
• American Psychological Association, Member, 2018 - Present
• Research Society on Marijuana, Member, 2018 - Present

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Research

Overview

Dr. Gette’s research broadly focuses on determinants and correlates of substance use, particularly cannabis and alcohol, across two domains: 1) indicators of use and 2) prevention and intervention.

Indicators of Use
Much of Dr. Gette’s work examines predictors of who will use substances and who will incur adverse outcomes associated with use. She aims to understand myriad risk factors associated with substance use and its consequences including social determinants of health (e.g., adverse childhood experiences, gender, sex, race, income, education, health status), cognitive factors (e.g., distress tolerance, anxiety, motives for substance use), and environmental triggers (e.g., sleep, social context). This work also includes improving assessment of substance use behaviors and its correlates. To that end, Dr. Gette employs structural equation modeling to evaluate and develop assessments of cannabis use and related consequences in diverse populations.

Prevention and Intervention
Dr. Gette’s work aims to translate risk and protective factors of substance use into treatment settings with a particular focus on substance use and co-occurring disorders. She is actively engaged in research evaluating treatments for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUDs). She is a Co-I on Project COMET (R01 MH1327020), a multi-site clinical trial that aims to determine the effectiveness of massed Prolonged Exposure (M-PE) for PTSD when compared to trauma treatment as usual (TAU) in an intensive outpatient program for SUDs. Dr. Gette is also an affiliated researcher on Project Harmony (R01 AA025853). Project Harmony is a virtual clinical trial integrative data analysis project that synthesized data from 36 existing PTSD and substance use treatment studies (resulting in a total of 4,544 study participants) to examine comparative efficacy of behavioral, pharmacotherapy or combined PTSD/SUD treatments. In addition, her work has assessed a variety of substance use outcomes among underserved populations. Examples include: 1) assessing the utility of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for substance use among individuals in an HIV clinic; 2) examination of child protective services referrals among present persons using substances; 3) and harm reduction strategies for substance use.