Audrey Mengwasser Shillington, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Dr. Shillington is Professor in the School of Social Work at San Diego State University. Dr. Shillington received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow and received a Masters in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the School of Medicine at Washington University. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow she was a Research Associate on several National Institute on Drug Abuse funded epidemiology projects among substance users. Specifically, these studies examined the co-morbidity of drug and alcohol diagnoses with psychiatric diagnoses, and HIV risk behaviors. This work also included nosology research and field trials for the DSM-IV. Her research has continued to focus on substance abuse and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults. She is a Research Investigator for the SDSU Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health and the Associate Director at the Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies. She has published over 40 peer reviewed publications and has been PI or Co-Investigator on grants totaling over $6.5 million. Dr. Shillington is Co-Investigator of a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded study, and a U.S. Department of Education funded project to prevent heavy alcohol use among young adults. She has been the Principal Investigator of two University of California AIDS Research Program (UARP) funded HIV prevention projects. She is currently PI of a NIAAA funded project to examine the stability of self-reports of alcohol and drug use among adolescents. This work includes the examination of over 5,000 adolescent self-reports over a ten-year time span.

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