Assistant Professor
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Dr. Oberleitner is a licensed clinical psychologist, an Assistant Professor at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB), and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Oberleitner received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University, with a focus on clinical health psychology, subsequently completing a NIDA T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine (YSM). She continued as faculty at YSM until 2019, with involvement in the Divisions of Substance Abuse and Law and Psychiatry. At YSM she was the Associate Director for a forensic addiction clinic, where she provided administrative and clinical supervision for an interdisciplinary team, and helped to develop a prison re-entry addiction initiative with an identified focus on opioid overdose prevention. From 2019-2020 she was faculty at Western Connecticut State University where taught and developed courses in a graduate program in Addiction Studies, and was awarded a Health Resources & Services Administration grant to expand interdisciplinary, evidence-based training to strengthen the opioid workforce. Dr. Oberleitner joined the faculty at the OUWB, Department of Foundational Medical Studies in 2021, where she teaches in the behavioral health curriculum for medical students. Dr. Oberleitner's primary research interests are the intersections of substance use disorders and chronic health conditions, with a specific interest in how these issues are manifested in criminal justice populations. Dr. Oberleitner is interested in developing treatments that effectively target the role of emotions, trauma, and gender differences in individuals with co-occurring addiction, chronic health conditions, and/or criminal justice involvement. She is also interested in research and efforts to strengthen and expand the interdisciplinary addiction treatment workforce, at both the graduate/medical and continuing education levels.
