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Education:
- PhD (Social Work), George Warren Brown University, 1991
- MSW, George Warren Brown University, 198
- BA (Psychology and History), Drury College, 1982
Scholarly Areas: Substance use epidemiology and prevention, Adolescent risk and protective factors for alcohol and drug use, Measurement issues related to alcohol and other drugs longitudinally for adolescents, Reliability and Validity issues of alcohol use measures in Spanish and English among Hispanic youth, HIV/AIDS prevention
Biography: Audrey Shillington, is Professor at SDSU, School of Social Work and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University. She was an NIMH 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 NIDA funded projects on substance use. These studies examined the co-morbidity of psychiatric diagnoses and HIV risk behaviors. Her research has continued to focus on substance abuse, AOD measurement issues, and high-risk sexual behaviors among children and young adults. She is a Research Investigator at the 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 been PI or Co-Investigator on grants totaling over $6.5 million. Dr. Shillington is a Co-Investigator of a NIAAA funded study and a prior U.S. Department of Education funded project to prevent heavy alcohol use among young adults. She has been PI of a 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.
Selected Publications:
- Reed, M.B., Wang, R., Shillington, A.M., Clapp, J.D., and Lange, J.E. (2007) The relationship between alcohol use and cigarettes smoking among a sample of undergraduate college students. Addictive Behaviors. 32(3): 449-464.
- Clapp, J.D., Min, J.W., Shillington, A.M., Reed, M.B., Lange, J.E., and Holmes, M.R. (2006) Environmental and individual predictors of error in field estimates of BAC: A multi-level analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 67(4): 620-627.
- Shillington, A.M., and Clapp, J.D. (2006) Heavy alcohol use compared to alcohol and marijuana use: Do college students experience a Difference in Substance use problems?. Journal of Drug Education. 36(1): 91-103.
- Shillington, A.M., Reed, M.B., Lange, J.E., Clapp, J.D., and Henry, S. (2006) College undergraduate Ritalin abusers in the Southwestern United States: Protective and risk factors. rnal of Drug Issues. 36(4): 999-1014.
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