Elizabeth M. Oliva, PhD received her PhD in Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science from the University of Minnesota where her graduate work examining the etiology of substance use from adolescence to early adulthood was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at UCSD/VA San Diego. Dr. Oliva is a Senior Evaluator for the VHA Program Evaluation and Resource Center (PERC; one of three VHA Office of Mental Health evaluation centers) and an Investigator at the VA Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is the VHA National Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) Coordinator and also conducts research on VHA OEND implementation and post-overdose care. In her role as VHA National OEND Coordinator, Dr. Oliva works with interdisciplinary teams—e.g., MDs, PharmDs, RNs, LCSWs, Psychologists—to create national VHA OEND resources for patient and provider training. Dr. Oliva also helped develop and implement the VHA Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) and is an Associate Editor for the journal Substance Abuse.