To celebrate a century of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, this special lecture series will highlight people, ideas, and work that distinguish and define the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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 | Thursday, June 6, 2013 | 5 - 6 PMRobert L. Findling, M.D., M.B.A.Professor THE LEO KANNER LECTURE |
Biographical Sketch - Robert L. Findling, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Findling attended The Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate studies and then the Medical College of Virginia for medical school. He completed his training in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He subsequently earned his Masters of Business Administration degree from the London School of Economics.
Before returning to Baltimore in 2012 to become Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Findling held the Rocco L. Motto, M.D. Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and was Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He is now also the Vice President for Psychiatry Services and Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Dr. Findling has achieved international recognition as a clinician and an educator. His investigative endeavors have focused on pediatric psychopharmacology and serious psychiatric disorders in the young. Dr. Findling has authored over 300 scientific articles as well as several books. His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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 | March 27, 2013George F. Koob, Ph.D.Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute THE DARK SIDE OF DRUG ADDICTION The Horsley Gantt to Joseph Brady ConnectionA leading authority on drug addiction and stress and an alumnus of Johns Hopkins (Ph.D.’72), Dr. Koob will discuss the contributions of two of Hopkins most prominent behaviorists, W. Horsley Gantt and Joseph Brady to his work and to the field of behavioral neuroscience. |
Dr. Koob's Faculty Profile at The Scripps Institute
As an authority on drug addiction and stress, he has contributed to our understanding of the neurocircuitry associated with the acute reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse and the neuroadaptations of the reward and stress circuits associated with the transition to dependence. Dr. Koob has published over 600 peer reviewed scientific papers. In collaboration with Dr. Michel Le Moal, he wrote the acclaimed book Neurobiology of Addiction (Elsevier, 2006). He has received continuous funding for his research from the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He is Director of the NIAAA Alcohol Research Center at The Scripps Research Institute, Consortium Coordinator for NIAAA's multi-center Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism, and Co-Director of the Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research. He has trained 73 postdoctoral fellows and 11 predoctoral fellows and is director of the NIAAA Neuropsychopharmacoloy multidisciplinary training grant. Dr. Koob is Editor-in-Chief USA for the journal Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior and Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Addiction Medicine. He won the Daniel Efron Award for excellence in research from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, was honored as a Highly Cited Researcher from the Institute for Scientific Information, was presented with the Distinguished Investigator Award and Marlatt Mentorship Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism, and won the Mark Keller Award from NIAAA.
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Biographical Sketch - Paul R. McHugh, M.D.
Paul R. McHugh was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School with further training at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women’s) Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. After his training, he was eventually and successively Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine, Clinical Director and Director of Residency Education at the New York Hospital Westchester Division; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health Sciences Center. He was Henry Phipps Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine named him University Distinguished Service Professor in 1998.
Dr. McHugh was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to the President’s Council on Bioethics and in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People. Above and beyond his professional publications, he has written articles for the public on psychiatry published in The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Chronicles of Higher Education, and The Baltimore Sun.
His career has three interrelated themes. First: To create a model department of academic psychiatry by rendering explicit the conceptual structure of psychiatry and by demonstrating what this structure implies for patient care, education and research. Second: Teach how the brain-mind problem is embedded in these concepts and how it affects the thought and actions of psychiatrists. Third: Investigate the “motivated” behaviors, such as hunger, thirst, sex, and sleep that are open in this era to multiple levels of analysis from molecular biology to social science.
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