Fiona Conway received her Ph.D. in social work from the Rutgers School of Social Work and completed her postdoctoral training at the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on substance use behaviors emphasizing recovery support services, digital health solutions, and substance use among adolescents and young adults. She also collaborates with biomedical scientists to investigate the relationships between behavioral health and human biology. She is particularly interested in the relationships between psychological distress, neuro-cardiac self-regulation, and substance use. Her interdisciplinary research seeks to facilitate the transfer of new and innovative scientific strategies to substance use prevention specialists and treatment providers.
Professional Interests
Substance use: recovery support services; digital health solutions; and neuro-cardiac self-regulation.
Research
- Alcohol, Approach-Avoidance, and Neurocircuitry Interactions in PTSD (2028)
- Project CONNECT: Development and implementation of a digital ecosystem to improve opioid overdose reporting, tracking, and prevention across Texas (2026)
- Improving the Sustainability of Recovery Housing Organizations to Facilitate Long-term Recovery from Substance Use Disorders (2025)
- Opioid use biofeedback intervention program (2024)
- An intersectional examination of early tobacco use among White and Black adolescents (2024)
- Neurophysiological Responses to Stress: A Biomarker of Risk for Suicide in Bipolar Disorder (2023)
- Biological mechanisms of behavior change: The baroreflex and stress reactivity (2019)