September 23, 2023

Overview

Throughout this lecture, Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D., will talk about how the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing the prevention and remedy of opioid misuse in choose communities exhausting hit by the opioid disaster. Dr. Walsh will describe how the HCS has begun to broaden entry to evidence-based care, enhance information availability and timeliness, deal with social determinants of well being, cut back stigma by public well being communications campaigns, and modify related insurance policies.

About Dr. Walsh

Dr. Sharon Walsh headshot

Dr. Walsh is a professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences within the Schools of Drugs and Pharmacy on the College of Kentucky and serves as Director of the Middle on Drug and Alcohol Analysis and the Substance Use Dysfunction Precedence Analysis Space. Dr. Walsh is the Principal Investigator of the HCS on the College of Kentucky.

Dr. Walsh’s scientific analysis focuses on pharmacological and behavioral points in opioid use dysfunction, together with research on the efficacy of pharmacotherapies for opioid use dysfunction, abuse legal responsibility of psychoactive medication, and the pharmacology of extensively used opioid analgesics. She has printed greater than 150 manuscripts and has been acknowledged with quite a few awards, together with the Betty Ford Award, the Marian Fischman Award, and the Presidential Early Profession Award for Scientists and Engineers. 

Dr. Walsh has been funded by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) all through her profession, lectures nationally and internationally on opioid misuse, opioid use dysfunction and its remedy, and has served as an advisor to the Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs, NIH, the American Society for Dependancy Drugs, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration and the World Well being Group. She presently serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for NIDA.

In regards to the Director’s Innovation Speaker Collection

The Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being (NIMH) established the Director’s Innovation Speaker Collection to encourage broad, interdisciplinary considering in creating scientific initiatives and applications and to press for theoretical leaps in science over the continuation of incremental thought. Innovation audio system are inspired to explain their work from the attitude of breaking by current boundaries and creating profitable new concepts, in addition to working exterior their major space of experience in ways in which have pushed their fields ahead. We encourage discussions of the which means of innovation, creativity, breakthroughs, and paradigm-shifting.

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Division of Extramural Affairs

Registration

This occasion is free, however you should register to attend.

Contact

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Extra Data

Closed captioning and an indication language interpreter shall be supplied for this occasion.