Fall Faculty Updates: Lena Lundgren, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, and CARS Director

Associate Dean and Professor Lena Lundgren hosted the 2014 Addiction Health Services Research Conference (AHSR), a national conference bringing together experts in the field of addiction research, in Boston. Professor Lundgren introduced alumnus Douglas Brooks (SSW’99), one of the plenary speakers at the 3-day event. For more information about this year’s AHSR Conference, click here.

Professor Lundgren is currently the Principal Investigator on a 5 year study examining the effectiveness of addiction treatment interventions funded by the Swedish effectiveness of addiction treatment interventions. 2014-2019. Funded by the Swedish National Institute for Health/ Social/ Labor Market Research and Umea University.

Professor Lundgren currently has two publications in press, “The Affordable Care Act: New Opportunities for Social Work to Take Leadership in Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment” (with Ivy Krull) in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research and “Integrating Addiction and Mental Health Treatment within a National Addiction Treatment System” in Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.