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DiSilvestro Endowed Professor
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Dr. Carrie Oser is the DiSilvestro Endowed Professor in the Sociology Department, Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation, and affiliated with the Center on Drug & Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky (UK). She formerly served as the interim Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Oser is passionate about conducting rigorous high-impact research to improve the lives of individuals with substance use disorders. She has been continuously funded as a Principal Investigator (PI) for over a decade by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on six awards totaling more than $7 million examining addiction health services, health disparities, HIV interventions, social networks, implementation science, as well as substance use among rural, Black, and/or criminal justice populations. She has served as a Co-Investigator on 14 other NIH studies, including all four of NIDA’s criminal justice research cooperatives. Dr. Oser is leading an NIH R01 project examining how social networks influence a person’s decision to initiate medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder in prison and post-release in rural versus urban counties. Dr. Oser is a Co-Investigator on the landmark HEALing Communities Study, overseeing partnerships between community coalitions and criminal justice agencies to deploy evidence based practices and contributing to UK’s implementation science and administrative cores. Dr. Oser has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and received numerous awards for her mentorship of more than 50 graduate students and junior faculty.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET