Edith Silverglied Lisansky Gomberg

Edith Silverglied Lisansky Gomberg was a prominent figure in clinical alcohol research, whose groundbreaking work focused attention on previously neglected population groups, including women, the elderly, and American minorities. Robert Zucker, director of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, first met Gomberg in the late 1960s, when he was working at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies in New Brunswick, NJ. From 1968 to 1971 she and her second husband Henry Gomberg, lived in Puerto Rico, where Gomberg joined the University of Puerto Rico, and further developed an existing interest in ethnicity, which led to contributions on the drinking patterns of African Americans.