STEWART, Sherry H. - Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology & Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
Dr. Sherry Stewart has made significant, internationally-reputed contributions to the understanding of,
and intervention with, anxiety and addictions. She has relentlessly pursued identifying the basic
personality, motivational, and situational factors underlying the proclivity to develop excessive anxiety
and/or addictive behaviors (e.g., misuse of cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, prescription drugs, and
gambling) using sophisticated social science lab, field, and intervention approaches. She has studied
adults and adolescents in mainstream and Aboriginal communities.