Senior Vice President Eric Goplerud directs NORC's Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice Studies department. Goplerud, who joined NORC in 2011, is a clinical psychologist and an expert on substance abuse treatment and prevention who was previously a senior research professor at George Washington University focusing on behavioral health policy. Prior to working at George Washington University, he held several senior policy leadership positions at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Since 2002, Goplerud has directed Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, a research program at George Washington University supported by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, industry, and various federal agencies. He also directs the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Policy. Goplerud is immediate past president of ACMHA: the College for Behavioral Health Leadership. His primary work focuses on integration of behavioral health into national health reform, improving access and financing for behavioral health in primary and specialty medicine, and engagement of businesses, health insurers, and employee assistance programs to promote access to effective, affordable behavioral health care. Goplerud has directed foundation, corporate, and government-sponsored projects focused on increasing access to effective, affordable alcohol treatment.
In addition, Goplerud chaired the National Quality Forum's Technical Advisory Panel that produced the consensus standards of evidence-based substance use treatment, and he co-chairs the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) Technical Advisory Panel that designed and is field testing alcohol and tobacco SBIRT performance measures for all hospital admissions.