Day 1 - Robert M. Anthenelli, MD - Nicotine, the Forgotten Epidemic

UCSD Department of Psychiatry 50th Anniversary Symposium - Day 1 - Session 3: Research on Alcohol, Drugs, and Related Conditions - Nicotine, the Forgotten Epidemic by Robert M. Anthenelli, MD. Robert M. Anthenelli, MD Professor and Interim Chair, Director, Pacific Treatment and Research Center, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine https://profiles.ucsd.edu/robert.anth... Dr. Anthenelli is Professor and Interim Chair of the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry where he directs the Pacific Treatment and Research Center. He was recently the department’s Executive Vice Chair, and was formerly Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs and Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Prior to returning to UCSD in 2011, he was Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine and Cincinnati VA Medical Center where he founded and directed the Center for Treatment, Research & Education in Addictive Disorders and nationally acclaimed Cincinnati VA Substance Dependence Program. The overarching theme of Dr. Anthenelli’s research is to develop improved treatments for tobacco, alcohol use, and comorbid psychiatric disorders by better understanding their neurobiology. He has co-authored over 200 published research articles, book chapters, and abstracts published in major journals including The Lancet. Funding for his research is provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and various industry sponsors. He has lectured widely across the globe and is the Principal Investigator for the EAGLES trial – the largest placebo-controlled smoking cessation medication trial conducted to date. UCSD Department of Psychiatry Homepage https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/psychi... Fifty years ago, a new medical school at the University of California, San Diego recruited a 35-year old neuroscientist-psychiatrist, Arnold J. Mandell, MD, to establish the country’s newest department of psychiatry. Mandell’s vision was to create a community of scholars, educators, and clinicians who understood that to make advances in the causes, mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of mental illness one needed to begin with the neurobiological bases of these disorders and link such insights to diagnosis and treatment. Mandell therefore put the department on a new path, a biologically rooted but translationally oriented multidisciplinary department. Our second Chair, Lewis L. Judd, MD, built on this concept and through careful recruiting of talented scientists, educators, and clinicians, developed what came to be regarded as one of the finest departments of psychiatry in the world. The science of this department expanded from investigations of the traditional mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dementias to multidisciplinary investigations of the role of brain conditions in important medical disorders such as HIV/AIDS. From a scientific standpoint, a relatively young department became one of the three best funded research departments in the country, while developing 25 discipline specific and multidisciplinary training programs. The clinical enterprise has also flourished and now includes world class programs in the treatment of eating disorders, early psychosis, and many others. This 50th year celebration of the science, education, and clinical work of the department is a moment of both happy self-reflection, and consideration of paths forward. I hope you enjoy the program, and join me in the celebration. Igor Grant, MD Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor 3rd Chair, UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry Make a Gift to the UCSD Department of Psychiatry https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/psychi...