Dr. Andrea Grubb Barthwell is the former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Prior to joining ONDCP, Barthwell served as President of American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). She has served as President of the Encounter Medical Group in Oak Park, Illinois and as President and Executive Vice President of two major drug treatment providers in Chicago.
Before her recent government service on President Bush's sub-cabinet, she served on the National Advisory Councils of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), on the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and on the Drug Abuse Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Barthwell received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and her Doctor of Medicine from University of Michigan Medical School. She did her post-graduate training at University of Chicago and Northwestern University Medical Center. |