Steven Ondersma
Biography
Dr. Ondersma is Deputy Director of the Merrill-Palmer Skillman Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University. His primary interest is in population-level interventions promoting maternal and child health in underserved communities, particularly via technology-based brief interventions for substance use in the perinatal period. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 37), former Editor of the journal Child Maltreatment, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He has served as an invited presenter for numerous NIH topical meetings as well as for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Institute of Medicine; and currently co-chairs the Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome subgroup of the NIH’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) initiative. He has led multiple NIH and CDC research grants focusing on the development, validation, and implementation of novel screening techniques and electronic/mobile (mHealth) interventions in healthcare settings. His current major activities include a multi-site trial of an mHealth intervention for alcohol use in pregnancy, two implementation trials evaluating the integration of mHealth technology in health care settings, and a user-centered design project seeking to develop a platform enabling large-scale collaborative mHealth intervention trials.
Department
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine