“Meeting People Where They’re At: Community-based Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders”
Friday Noon Conference is held in the Harborview R&T building #109 from 12-1 (NE corner of 9th Ave & Alder, ground level), where lunch will be served. As always, we ask everyone to do their best to be seated on time.
Dr. Collins is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington – Harborview Medical Center. She has been involved in substance use research for nearly two decades and has disseminated this work in over 60 book chapters, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles. Together with her colleague, Dr. Seema Clifasefi, she codirects the Harm Reduction Research and Treatment Lab. In the HaRRT lab, she works with a multidisciplinary research and clinical team, community-based agencies, traditional Native healers, and substance-using community members to co-develop and evaluate interventions that aim to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life for affected individuals and their communities. Dr. Collins is an awardee of the G. Alan Marlatt Memorial Research Award for her contributions to alcohol research and was recently nominated as one of three New Investigators in the University of Washington Science in Medicine lecture series.