Karen Ingersoll

Dr. Karen Ingersoll is associate professorof Psychiatry and NeurobehavioralSciences at the University ofVirginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville,VA. Dr. Ingersoll's focus is theintersection of addiction and health.She has developed and tested motivationalinterventions that targethealth behaviors and addictive behaviorstogether for two decades,including multiple studies of interventionsto reduce the risk of alcoholexposedpregnancy.