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Victoria Osborne, MSW

Victoria Osborne, MSW, is a NIDA pre-doctoral fellow at the Washington University Department of Psychiatry.  She is currently a doctoral student at George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. She obtained her Masters of Social Work degree in 1998 at Washington University, where she also obtained her bachelors degree in psychology in 1994.

Vickie is currently working on her dissertation.  She is working at the department of psychiatry with her mentor Dr. Linda Cottler, analyzing Dr. Cottler’s Sister to Sister and Woman to Woman project data.  Vickie’s dissertation is on factors contributing to late onset alcohol dependence in women.  Her general research interests include women’s health issues, underdetection of women’s alcohol misuse and comorbid mental disorders in primary medical care settings, alcohol and prescription drug abuse in older women, and prevention of addictions in adult women.

Vickie also teaches Human Behavior in the Social Environment at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.  She is still actively involved in numerous research projects at the School of Social Work as well as the School of Medicine.  She serves on the Research Committee of the United Way of Greater St. Louis, and is an active community volunteer for nonprofit organizations including the St. Louis Variety Club and Foster Care and Adoptive Coalition.

 

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