Sharon Wilsnack, PhD
Sharon Wilsnak is the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is currently a member of the National Advisory Committee, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. She received her MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University and studied as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Her background includes experience in research and medical education, as well a substance abuse therapist, treatment program director. She has published extensively on issues related to substance abuse in women and has addressed numerous national and international audiences. She is co-editor of Alcohol Problems in Women: Antecedents, Consequences, and Intervention (New York: Guilford Press, 1984) and Gender and Alcohol: Individual and Social Perspectives (Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1997).
Wilsnack is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She served as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, as a member on the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health and on numerous other boards and advisory groups.
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