Herbert Moskowitz

President

herb.moskowitz@scri.org

Phone: (310) 390-8481

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Dr. Herbert Moskowitz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Research Psychologist at UCLA and President of Southern California Research Institute. 

Dr. Moskowitz has been a researcher in psychopharmacology and engineering psychology for more than 40 years.  His work included developing sensitive behavioral tests for skills performance to examine alcohol and drug effects.  In addition to the development of experimental laboratory tests, he has contributed to development of four driving simulators specifically adapted to examining drug effects.  His work has measured visual and auditory perceptual functions, vigilance and divided attention, information processing, memory, motivation, tracking, reaction time, as well as driving both in closed courses and on driving simulators.  These tasks have been utilized in studies examining the interaction of gender, drinking practices and age on alcohol and drug impairment.  He has studied differences between alcoholics, heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers and social drinkers in their performance under alcohol and examined the rate of drinking as function of impairment.  He has examined many illicit drugs;  opiates, marijuana, cocaine, etc.,  as well as medicinal drugs;  tranquilizers, antidepressants, barbiturates, antihistamines, etc. 

He has recently served as principal investigator of a large scale epidemiological study of accidents as a function of BAC with improved methodology so as to update the relationship between BAC and crash rate.  Dr. Moskowitz has more than 135 publications in the field.  He has served as a member of the International Council on Alcohol Drugs and Traffic Safety for 30 years, on the committees of the U.S. Transportation Research Board and the U.S. National Safety Council.  He is a fellow of the American Psychology Association, and the American Psychology Society.  He is a member of the American Psychology Law Association, Society of Engineering Psychologists, Research Society on Alcoholism, etc.  He has received the A.R. Lauer award from the Human Factors Society and the Widmark award from ICADTS. 

 He has received grant awards for his research from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as non-governmental agencies such as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the American Automobile Association Foundation.