Jeff Marotta, PhD, is the Problem Gambling
Services Manager in the Oregon Addictions & Mental Health
Division.
Judy Cornelius has been the Associate Director of
the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at
the University of Nevada, Reno since its formation in 1989. She has
served as the Conference Coordinator of the International
Conferences on Gambling and Risk-Taking since 1989; the North
American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming; and as
Assistant Conference Coordinator of the Seventh International
Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking. She has extensive knowledge
and background in gaming research and has co-edited six books with
William Eadington. Cornelius has a Bachelor of Science in Economics
from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Bachelor of Arts in
Criminal Justice from UNLV.
William R. Eadington (1946-2013) earned his BA
from Santa Clara University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics
from Claremont Graduate School. He was professor of economics and
founding director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and
Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. One the most
influential scholars in establishing the academic study of the
gaming industry, he was the first holder of the Philip G. Satre
Chair in Gaming Studies, established in 2004. He was inducted into
the American Gaming Association's Hall of Fame in 2011 for his
scholarship on the economic and social impacts of commercial
gaming, and in 2012 he received the Goldman Lifetime Award for
Advocacy from the National Council on Problem Gambling for his
lifetime of work addressing problem gambling.
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