Employment History [Academic Appointments]
1988-1991: Honorary Senior Registrar (equivalent to Instructor in General/Forensic Psychiatry) at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
1991-1993: Wellcome Research Fellow & Honorary Senior Registrar (equivalent to Assistant Professor in Addiction Psychiatry) at Oxford University.
1993-1997: Assistant Professor & Teaching Fellow of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas – Houston Health Science Center.
1997-1998: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas – Houston Health Science Center.
1998-2000: Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology; Deputy Chairman for Research; Chief of Division of Alcohol and Drug Addiction at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
2000-2004: Wurzbach Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology (Tenured); Deputy Chairman for Research; Chief of Division of Alcohol and Drug Addiction at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
2004-2013: Alumni Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia.
2006-2013: Neuroscience; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.
2013-2014: Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Professor of Pharmacology and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
2014 March – March 2019: The Dr. Irving J. Taylor Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Feb – Dec 2019: Director, Brain Science Research Consortium Unit; Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Neurology, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Director of the Brain Consortium Research Unit.
Jan 2020 – Present: Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of Privé Clinics, Miami, Florida; Founder, Chief Medical Officer (previously Chairman), Adial Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Other Employment
1982-1983: House Physician, Stonehouse Hospital, Scotland.
1983: House Surgeon, Western Infirmary, Scotland.
1983-1984: Senior House Physician, Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Monklands Teaching Hospital, Scotland.
Professional Society Memberships
1986-present: Member, British Association of Psychopharmacologists.
1989-present: Member, British Neuropsychiatry Association.
1989-2005, 2010-present: Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine.
1994-present: Active Member, New York Academy of Sciences.
1995-present: Member, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
1995-present: Member, Research Society on Alcoholism.
1996-present: Member, Society for Neuroscience.
1998-present: Member, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence.
2001-present: Fellow, Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum.
2001-present: Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Diplomate Member, The American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.
2000-2006: Member, Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians.
2001-present: Member, American Psychiatric Association.
2002-present: Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry.
2003-present: Member, International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism.
2007-present: Member, Old Dominion Medical Society.
2007-present: Member, National Academy of Neuropsychology.
2008-present: Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association.
2010-present: Member, Association for Psychological Science.
2010-present: Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
2013-present: Fellow, American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.
2014-present: Member, Association for Academic Minority Physicians.
2018-present: Member, Council on Research, American Psychiatric Association.
2024-present: Member, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Honors and Awards
1974 – Received Prizes in French and English Literature.
1976 – Won Prizes for Biology and Chemistry.
1978 – Earned Distinction in Biology from the University of Glasgow.
1979 – Awarded Distinction for Series of Psychiatric Case Studies of Schizophrenic Families at the University of Glasgow.
1980-1982 – Received a National Scholarship.
1989-1993 – Awarded the Wellcome Research Scientist Development Award, United Kingdom.
1991-1998 – Practiced in the United Kingdom.
1993 – Won First Place at the XXIst Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum Congress Young Psychopharmacologist Award.
1998-2002 – Served as Member of the NIAAA Clinical and Treatment Research Study Section (AA-3).
1999 – Served as U.S. OWHI/NIAAA representative to establish bi-national collaborative research links with South Africa.
2001 – Received Dan Anderson Research Award from Hazelden Foundation.
2002 – Chairperson of the NIAAA Alcohol Research Center Applications (ZAA1 BB, 73).
2002 – Became Senior Scholar of Distinction at the National Medical Association.
2003-present – Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
2003 – Inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame for Science, Mathematics and Technology and the Faces of the Medical Community.
2003 – Received the Adolf Meyer Research Award from the Third Annual Bexar County Family Support Conference.
2004-2007 – Appointed to the National Advisory Council for NIH/NIDA.
2004-2007 – Member of the Medications Development Support Subcommittee of NIDA’s Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.
2004-present – Member of the Extramural Advisory Board for NIH/NIAAA.
2005-2009 – Member of the Medications Development Scientific Advisory Board for NIH/NIDA.
2005 – Awarded the American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer Award for outstanding achievement in psychiatry as an educator, researcher, and clinician.
2006-present – Member of the NIH Roadmap Consultant Panel.
2007-present – Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych.).
2007, 2009-2010 – Listed in “Best Doctors in America” (Best Doctors, Inc.).
2008-present – Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
2009 – Received the Solomon Carter Fuller Award from the American Psychiatric Association, honoring individuals who have significantly improved the quality of life for Black people.
2010-present – Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
2013 – Awarded the Jack Mendelson Award by NIAAA.
2017 – Received the Governor’s Citation from the Maryland Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force.
2018 – Honored with the Dean Reece Cup Award for best performing department in the UMSOM.
2019 – Awarded the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Society for Addiction Medicine, for advancing the scientific understanding of addiction.