Audrey Mengwasser Shillington, Ph.D.

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 focused on substance abuse and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults. She has published over 40 peer reviewed publications and has been PI or Co-Investigator on grants totaling over $6.5 million. Dr. Shillington was 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, and was the PI of a NIAAA funded project to examine the stability of self-reports of alcohol and drug use among adolescents. Dr. Shillington was previously the Associate Director at the SDSU Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies and Services, and is now the Director of the School of Social Work at Colorado State University at Fort Collins.

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