Deidra Roach, MD

Dr. Roach is a general internist with more than 35 years of experience in addiction treatment. Prior to starting her federal career, she served as the Administrator and Medical Director for all government-funded addiction prevention and treatment programs in Washington, D.C., collectively known as the Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA). She currently serves as a Program Director in the Division of Treatment, Health Services, and Recovery at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, where, among other responsibilities, she manages research portfolios addressing the treatment of co-occurring mental health and alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related HIV/AIDS among women. Dr. Roach co-chairs the Interagency Work Group on Drinking and Drug Use in Women and Girls, a trans-DHHS committee that promotes collaborative research and other activities focused on the prevention and treatment of substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders among women and girls. She also serves on the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, the NIH Coordinating Committee for Research on Women’s Health, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, among many other committee memberships.