Date and Time
February 14, 2023
2:00–3:00 p.m. ET
Overview
Throughout this lecture, Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D., will focus on how the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing the prevention and remedy of opioid misuse in choose communities arduous hit by the opioid disaster. Dr. Walsh will describe how the HCS has begun to broaden entry to evidence-based care, enhance knowledge availability and timeliness, tackle social determinants of well being, cut back stigma by public well being communications campaigns, and modify related insurance policies.
About Dr. Walsh
Dr. Walsh is a professor of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences within the Faculties of Drugs and Pharmacy on the College of Kentucky and serves as Director of the Heart 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 medicine, and the pharmacology of broadly 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 Habit 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 pondering in growing 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 angle of breaking by current boundaries and growing profitable new concepts, in addition to working outdoors their major space of experience in ways in which have pushed their fields ahead. We encourage discussions of the that means of innovation, creativity, breakthroughs, and paradigm-shifting.
Sponsored by
Division of Extramural Actions
Registration
This occasion is free, however it’s essential to register to attend.
Contact
InnovationSpeakers@mail.nih.gov
Extra Data
Closed captioning and an indication language interpreter might be offered for this occasion.
