Dr. Debi A. LaPlante, Ph.D., is the Director of Academic Affairs at the Division on Addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance as well as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also senior editor of the online review The BASIS, publishing weekly reviews of the most recent academic research focused on addiction issues, including alcoholism. She has served as an expert consultant to Family Health Productions, Inc., in developing a video toolkit for alcoholism prevention in teens.

Dr. LaPlante's extensive research into the intersection between women's health and alcoholism has been groundbreaking in demonstrating the psychological and physiological complexities of addiction in women. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals.