Physician Assistant

Chair
Main Office: 3434 CHHS Bldg.
Telephone: (269) 387-5311
FAX: (269) 387-5319

Denise Bowen
Sherrill Busboom
Amy Curtis
William Fenn
Mark Gillette
Dennis Simpson
Phil Walcott
Eric Vangsnes

Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Dr. C. Dennis Simpson, Director
Advisor:
Jan Dekker
2125 CHHS

Western Michigan University’s Specialty Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse (SPADA) provides professional education for all those who are interested in the substance abuse field. Multidisciplinary in nature, SPADA provides a balanced orientation to theory and practice, considers a breadth of contemporary issues, and emphasizes a variety of methods for dealing with the problems of substance abuse.

SPADA offers a graduate certificate in alcohol and drug abuse which can be earned as an independent certificate or can be used to supplement graduate education in related fields such as biological sciences, counseling psychology, occupational therapy, psychology, public administration, social work, and sociology, as well as other related disciplines. Specifically, the graduate certificate may be earned in one of three ways; as a post-baccalaureate certificate, in conjunction with a graduate degree, or to complement an earned graduate degree.

Graduates of SPADA are prepared to serve the profession in ways that address the personal, social and economic costs of the use and abuse of psychoactive substances.