Edith S. Lisansky Gomberg

Background

Gomberg, Edith S. Lisansky was born on January 14, 1920 in New York City. Daughter of Barnet and Dorothy (Resnick) Silverglied.

Education

Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1949.

Career

Lecturer, research assistant, research associate, Center Alcohol Studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1949-1967; associate professor department psychology, U. P.R., 1968-1971; professor, School Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974-1990; professor psychology, department psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1988. Adjunct Professor School of Social Work University of Michigan, since 1993.

Achievements

• Edith S. Gomberg has been listed as a noteworthy psychologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Women and Substance Abuse

    ( Work on female drinking and female drug and alcohol abu...)

Membership

Member Republican Town Meeting, Hamden, Connecticut, 1964-1965. Member Blue Ribbon Study Commission on Alcoholism and Aging, National Council on Alcoholism, 1979-1982. Chairman panel on prevention, study to assess science opportunities of alcohol-related research Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

Member alcohol psychosocial research review committee National Institute Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1981-1982. Member Psychonomic Society, Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología, Research Society on Alcoholism, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Henry Jacob Gomberg, June 24, 1967. Children: Stephen, Judith, Eugene, Richard, Robert.

Father:

Barnet Silverglied

Mother:

Dorothy (Resnick) Silverglied

Spouse:

Henry Jacob Gomberg

child:

Eugene Gomberg

child:

Judith Gomberg

child:

Robert Gomberg

child:

Stephen Gomberg

child:

Richard Gomberg