Catherine Woodstock Striley, MSW, ACSW, LCSW,
Ph.D., M.P.E.
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Striley's CV 
Research Interests
1) Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in health care (including mental
health and substance abuse treatment)
2) Barriers to mental health care and substance abuse treatment
3) Training and monitoring for responsible research conduct
4) Psychiatric nosology and epidemiology
Catherine Woodstock Striley leads the research on a St. Louis regional
effort to build the capacity of the community to identify and serve
victims of human trafficking. She serves a co-investigator and fidelity
specialist on an NINR grant (Linda B. Cottler, PI) providing a
peer-partnered case management intervention to women in the criminal
justice system in St. Louis. She was recently funded with investigator
and psychiatrist Dr. Kevin Black to conduct a community feasibility study
preliminary to a large epidemiology study of tic and Tourette Disorder in
minority communities. She is also serving as the clinician for Dr.
Cottler’s research on prescription drug misuse among adults, young adults
and teens through a NIDA study and funding from a private consulting
firm. Dr. Striley is also the Assistant Director for the Master in
Psychiatric Epidemiology program at the Medical School where she teaches,
advises, and chairs thesis committees. She serves as the Ombudsperson for
two T-32s and a Fogarty International training grant (Linda B. Cottler,
director).
Prioritizing community-based research among populations with reduced
access to medical care and vulnerability due to drug use, poverty, or
refugee, immigrant or minority status, Dr. Striley collaborates with
community partner agencies. She is especially interested and concerned
with the effect of legal drugs, including caffeine and prescription drugs,
on problem identification and the need for additional health and mental
health care. She expects to uncover and experiment with interventions for
case-finding, referrals, and interventions to reduce barriers and increase
access to care.
Dr.
Striley is the co-director and host for WU of the First Biennial
Conference for Responsible Conduct of Research Education, Instruction and
Training to be held April 17 – 19th in St. Louis. Dr. Striley
is pursuing a teaching and research agenda in the responsible conduct of
research and serves on the WU Task Force developing material for RCR EIT,
the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Human Subjects committee, the
oversight committee for the WU Necessary Elements in Human Research
training, and a national task force to develop IRB training material for
Community Based Participatory Research. Dr. Striley is also a member of
the WU Human Studies Committee New Protocol Committee.
Dr.
Striley was presented with the Robins/Guze Award at the American
Psychopathological Association meeting in 2008. This award for new
investigators honors the memory and work of two remarkable psychiatrists
and department heads at Washington University: Drs. Eli Robins and Samuel
Guze.
She
has provided grant reviews for NIH, SAMHSA, the State Department and state
and local funders. She is a Consulting Editor for Social Work Research
and a reviewer for numerous journals including AIDs Care, The Journal of
Behavioral Health Services and Research, the Journal of Social Service
Research, Mental Health Services Research, Addiction, and Social
Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
After
completing a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship with mentor Dr. Linda Cottler
in the EPRG in June, 2005, Dr. Striley joined the Psychiatry faculty as a
research instructor. She completed her Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology
in May, 2004, her Ph.D. in Social Work from the George Warren Brown School
of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002, her Master
in Social Work from the same school in 1989, and her Bachelor's in
Political Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1980. Her
dissertation on cultural factors in care seeking among American-Indian
teens was funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (R-03). Dr.
Striley was an NIMH predoctoral fellow through the Center for Mental
Health Services at GWB where she developed a literature base on the
detection of depression and other mental health problems across sectors of
care. Striley practiced social work for 9 years before returning to school
and is a licensed clinical social worker and a member of the Academy of
Certified Social Workers.
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group 
