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Li-Tzy Wu

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
Duke Psychiatry, DUMC Box # 11, North Pavilion 6th Floor, Durham, NC 27710
Duke Psychiatry, DUMC Box # 11, North Pavilion 6th Floor, Durham, NC 27710
Office hours By appointment  

Selected Grants


Preventing Alcohol Use Disorders and Alcohol-Related Harms in Pacific Islander Young Adults

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Riverside · 2023 - 2028

Understanding the short- and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overdose crisis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New York University · 2024 - 2028

Increasing access to opioid use disorder treatment by opening pharmacy-based medication units of opioid treatment programs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025

Northstar Node of The Clinical Trials Network

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute · 2021 - 2025

Intervention Development and Pilot Study to Reduce Untreated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Opioid Use Disorders

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Riverside · 2020 - 2024

Integrated Health Services to Reduce Opioid Use While Managing Chronic Pain

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2018 - 2024

The impact of chronic pain on buprenorphine treatment utilization and retention among patients with opioid use disorder.

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2023

Mid Southern Primary Care Networks Node

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2023

NIDA CTN-0112: Optimal Policies to Improve Methadone Maintenance Adherence Longterm (OPTIMMAL Study)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New York University School of Medicine · 2022 - 2023

Evaluation of state-mandated acute and post-surgical pain-specific CDC opioid prescribing guidelines

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2018 - 2022

NIDA CTN-0112: Optimal Policies to Improve Methadone Maintenance Adherence Longterm (OPTIMMAL Study)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New York University School of Medicine · 2021 - 2022

Substance Abuse/Treatment Gaps in Asians, Pacific Islanders & Multiple-race Individuals

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2021

NorthStar Node of the Clinical Trials Network: COMPUTE 2.0

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute · 2020 - 2020

Developing a Prevention Model of Alcohol Use Disorder for Pacific Islander Young Adults

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Riverside · 2018 - 2020

Classification of substance use disorders in adolescents

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2016

"CTN-0060: Adolescent Screening and Brief Intervention (ASBI)"

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Medical University of South Carolina · 2014 - 2015

Southern Consortium Node of the Clinical Trials Network

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Medical University of South Carolina · 2013 - 2015

The Southern Consortium Node of the Clinical Trials Network

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Medical University of South Carolina · 2013 - 2015

Classification of Substance Use Severity and Treatment Outcomes: NIDA CTN Studies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015

8/1/200Epidemiology of Non-Medical Prescription Analgesic Use

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2012

Inhalant Use/Dependence: Incidence and Co-Morbidity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2007

External Relationships


  • Food and Health Bureau of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)
  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities
  • University Grants Committee (UGC), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong

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