Pop-Up Institute Director
Director of UGS Instruction, Engagement and Wellness
University Distinguished Teaching Professor (Medical), Department of Psychiatry
School of Undergraduate Studies; School of Social Work; Dell Medical School
Dr. Lori Holleran Steiker, an addictions therapist turned educator/scholar, is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work and the Director of Instruction, Engagement & Wellness for UT Undergraduate Studies. She researches drug and alcohol interventions, with expertise in adolescent and emerging adult substance use recovery. She spearheaded overdose prevention and response initiatives on the University of Texas campus, helped start OperationNaloxone, and is a PI/Co-PI on the Texas Targeted Opioid Response (TTOR) and CARA grants with over $3 million to address the Opioid Crisis and prevent drug overdoses. She is the Founder and a Board Member of University High School (Central Texas’s first recovery high school) and has served as the faculty liaison for the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Students in Recovery since its inception in 2004. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and three books, including Youth and Substance Use: Prevention, Intervention and Recovery (2016). She has received numerous honors and awards in the recovery community, university, state and nationally including the following: the UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, The Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, the Society for Social Work and Research Early Career Award, and the Council on Social Work Education’s Distinguished Recent Contributions Award. She is proud to serve as the Director of this 2017-18 UT Pop Up Institute.
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