Meet the CRP Director

Wood Marchant came to the College of Charleston in late 2016 from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where he was a Clinical Instructor at the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs (CDAP) from May 2013 to November 2016.

Wood is a 1989 graduate of the College of Charleston with a Bachelors of Arts in English and went on to complete his Masters in Social Work at the University of South Carolina in 2004. Following graduate school, Wood worked in MUSC’s Division of Infectious Disease for five years as a medical social worker.

In the fall of 2010, he began work at the Charleston Center as a Clinical Counselor in the Transitional Care Unit inpatient alcohol and drug rehabilitation program.

Transitioning from Charleston Center to CDAP in the spring of 2013, Wood continued to work in alcohol and drug rehabilitation in the Intensive Outpatient Program as a treatment group facilitator and individual therapist.

Sober for 26 years, Wood is married to Dr. Laura Lee Kinney and they have twins, Will and Anna, who are rising high school seniors.