Dr. Lofwall graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and received her MD and Masters in Pathology from the Chicago Medical School. She completed an internship, psychiatry residency, and a behavioral pharmacology research fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. In 2006, she joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky where her primary focuses are on research, teaching, clinical care and advocacy for patients with substance use disorders. Currently, she serves as the Bell Alcohol and Addictions Chair and the Medical Director of the Straus Clinic and the First Bridge Clinic that provides rapid access to comprehensive opioid use disorder treatment for patients with serious health complications.