Interview with Eddy Award Winner Theodore Cicero, Ph.D.Theodore J. Cicero, Professor, Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

摘要

Theodore J. Cicero serves as a Professor and Vice Chairman for Research, in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He also served as Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University from 1996 to 2006. Dr. Cicero received his Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology from Purdue University in 1969. He has been at Washington University since that time, becoming a tenured professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology in 1978. In addition to his university positions, Dr. Cicero serves on the Editorial Board of many journals and is an expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) Substance Abuse Advisory Group. He is also past chairperson of the Food and Drug Administration Drug Abuse Advisory panel (DAAC) from 1985 to 1993. Dr. Cicero is a life fellow of the American College of Neuropharmacology and past president of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (1984-1985). Dr. Cicero has over 195 publications related to the neurobiological substrates of substance abuse and the characteristics of prescription opioid abuse, and has active grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.