Sharon L. Walsh, PhD

Professor of Behavioral Science, and Director of Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Sharon Walsh, Ph.D. is a Professor of Behavioral Science, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. 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 interventions to reduce overdose deaths. She has published more than 150 manuscripts and her work has been recognized with numerous awards. She has been funded by National Institute of Health 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 currently the Principal Investigator of the NIH HEALing Communities Study for Kentucky.

Presentation(s):

• Leveraging Science to Improve Hepatitis C, HIV, and Other Substance Use-Related Outcomes in Rural Populations of People Who Use Drugs

  Tuesday, April 11, 2023
  2:15 PM – 3:30 PM