Senior Science Policy Advisor
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Washington, DC
Cecelia M. Spitznas, Ph.D. is Senior Science Policy Advisor in the Director’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President. As Senior Science Policy Advisor she provides policy analysis and scientific advice for the ONDCP Director and Chief of Staff on special matters of concern. She has been a career federal employee for 12 years at the National Institutes of Health’s, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and at ONDCP for 9 additional years. While at NIDA, Dr. Spitznas oversaw research on addiction treatment development and provider training. Prior to her federal experience she worked as an Assistant Professor in the UAB School of Medicine conducting research on crack cocaine and homelessness. She completed an American Psychological Association internship at U.A.B. and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in addiction treatment research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 1998 Dr. Spitznas graduated with her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of New Mexico. She holds a BA in psychology from Wake Forest University. Dr. Spitznas has survived cancer twice. She is a binge eating disorder expert who considers herself in recovery from obesity and food addiction. Her father, who battled alcohol addiction his entire life but cycled into recovery many times with the aid of 12-Step Fellowship and Residential Treatment taught her that people can and do recover.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM ET
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET