Elizabeth H. Shilling, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, the Director of the Addiction Research & Clinical Health Masters of Science Program in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate School at Wake Forest University, and the Director of ARCH (Advocacy, Recovery, Compassion & Healing) clinical services in the Department of Surgery. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and previous faculty experience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, North Carolina State University, and Wake Forest University. She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, licensed clinical addiction specialist and qualified supervisor in North Carolina and has over 14 years of experience in addiction treatment and research, mental health treatment and research, and graduate education. She is the project evaluator on a five-year $2.6 million SAMHSA funded grant to expand counseling services for patients in a medication-assisted treatment and infectious disease clinic at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. She is the co-Chair for the Graduate School Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Accelerator (IDEA) committee and served as a member of the Workplace Violence Committee, Graduate School Committee on Race & Equity, the Behavioral Health Workgroup, the Department of Surgery Wellness committee, an institution-wide Online Education Working Group, a Biomedical Sciences Program Review committee, and the Illicit Drug Use Taskforce. Additionally, she is a member of the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma internal advisory group, member-at-large of the LPCANC Board of Directors, and Vice Chair of the Insight Human Services Board of Directors.