Ohio Advanced Gambling Treatment Fellowship

The Ohio Advanced Gambling Treatment Fellowship (Advanced Fellowship) provides nine months of research, education, and clinical learning opportunities to eligible health professionals at the doctoral or master’s level. Fellows are trained to be role models in leading, developing, conducting, and evaluating innovative research, education, and clinical care pertaining to gambling disorder. The fellow’s time is focused on the identification, design, and delivery of a focused research or treatment project aimed at affecting change while improving Ohio’s current gambling treatment care system.

Dr. Heather A. Chapman, Ph.D, ICGC-II, BACC
Fellowship Facilitator: Dr. Heather A. Chapman, Ph.D, ICGC-II, BACC
Dr. Chapman is the Director of the Brecksville Gambling Treatment Program and Deputy Director of the Veterans Addiction Recovery Center at the Cleveland VA Medical Center as well as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Working with problem gambling for over 20 years, she is an internationally certified gambling counselor and board-approved clinical consultant from the International Gambling Certification Board of the NCPG. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and as such has developed groups specifically designed to enhance change for those struggling with problem and disordered gambling.