Professor, Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Brief Biography: Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D.
Sharon Walsh, Ph.D. is a Professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky and Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Her clinical research focuses on pharmacological and behavioral issues in opioid use disorder, including studies on the efficacy of pharmacotherapies for opioid use disorder and more recently on widely used opioid analgesics. She has been funded by NIH throughout her career, lectures nationally and internationally on opioid misuse, opioid use disorder and its treatment and has served as an advisor to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Veteran’s Administration, National Institutes of Health, the American Society for Addiction Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. She is presently the Principal Investigator of the HEALing Communities Study at the University of Kentucky that is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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