Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies

Dr. Mary Marden Velasquez is CentennialProfessor in Leadership forCommunity, Corporate, and ProfessionalExcellence and director of theHealth Behavior Research and TrainingProgram at the University ofTexas at Austin. Her research focuseson the development and testing ofbehavioral interventions in healthcaresettings, screening and brief interventions,group treatment forsubstance use, and preventing fetalalcohol spectrum disorder.Dr. Karen Ingersoll is associate professorof Psychiatry and NeurobehavioralSciences at the University ofVirginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville,VA. Dr. Ingersoll's focus is theintersection of addiction and health.She has developed and tested motivationalinterventions that targethealth behaviors and addictive behaviorstogether for two decades,including multiple studies of interventionsto reduce the risk of alcoholexposedpregnancy.Drs. Linda and Mark Sobell are bothprofessors at Nova SoutheasternUniversity, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, andhave had a clinical research careerspanning four decades. They are nationallyand internationally known fortheir research in the addictions field,including the development of theTimeline Followback and GuidedSelf-Change model of treatment.They both have received severalawards including the Jellinek MemorialAward for outstanding contributionsto know-ledge in the fieldof alcohol studies.
Dr. Mary Marden Velasquez is CentennialProfessor in Leadership forCommunity, Corporate, and ProfessionalExcellence and director of theHealth Behavior Research and TrainingProgram at the University ofTexas at Austin. Her research focuseson the development and testing ofbehavioral interventions in healthcaresettings, screening and brief interventions,group treatment forsubstance use, and preventing fetalalcohol spectrum disorder.Dr. Karen Ingersoll is associate professorof Psychiatry and NeurobehavioralSciences at the University ofVirginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville,VA. Dr. Ingersoll's focus is theintersection of addiction and health.She has developed and tested motivationalinterventions that targethealth behaviors and addictive behaviorstogether for two decades,including multiple studies of interventionsto reduce the risk of alcoholexposedpregnancy.Drs. Linda and Mark Sobell are bothprofessors at Nova SoutheasternUniversity, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, andhave had a clinical research careerspanning four decades. They are nationallyand internationally known fortheir research in the addictions field,including the development of theTimeline Followback and GuidedSelf-Change model of treatment.They both have received severalawards including the Jellinek MemorialAward for outstanding contributionsto know-ledge in the fieldof alcohol studies.