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Senior Consultants

About ICAP  Senior Consultants
  • S. Wilson Acuda
    • S. Wilson Acuda
    • Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Keele University
    • United Kingdom
    • S. Wilson Acuda is a psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at Keele University and Consultant at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, United Kingdom. Read complete bio
    • Originally from Zimbabwe, Dr. Acuda served as Professor and Chair at the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Nairobi (1982-1988) and the University of Zimbabwe (1988-1998), where he was also Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Substance Abuse (1994-1998). Dr. Acuda's special interest is in the area of substance misuse. He was a Member of the WHO Experts Committee on Drug Dependence (1985-2001) and currently serves on the Board of International Affairs, Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has been a Consultant to the International Center for Alcohol Policies since 1996.
  • Mario Argandona
    • Mario Argandona
    • Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universidad San Simon
    • Bolivia
    • Mario Argandona obtained his qualifications in medicine, psychiatry, and social psychiatry in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States (Cornell University, NY). He is Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the Universidad San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia. Read complete bio
    • Minister of Health in Bolivia 1982-1983. He served at WHO's Programme on Substance Abuse as Chief of the Unit of Treatment and Care. Retired since 1999, Dr. Argandona collaborates with the PhD course on Mental Health for South American professionals and researchers, at the University of Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Susan C. Biemesderfer
    • Susan C. Biemesderfer
    • Writer and Communications Consultant
    • United States
    • Susan C. Biemesderfer is a writer and communications consultant based in Los Angeles. She studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar (1982-1983), after earning an undergraduate degree at the University of Denver (1982, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). Read complete bio
    • She also holds a law degree. After working as a television news writer and on-air reporter for the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Susan accepted an assignment as a legislative specialist for a Minneapolis law firm. In 1988, she joined the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), where she specialized in election and campaign issues. She began writing and consulting independently in 1990 and her articles have appeared in U.S. publications nationwide, including The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Her current and past clients range from Fortune 500 companies to public policy and not-for-profit organizations.
  • Donald Blair
    • Donald Blair
    • Food and Beverage Industry Consultant
    • Poland
    • Donald Blair has spent most of his working life in the food and beverage industry with International FMCG companies working in France, India, Lebanon, Turkey, the U.K., the United States, Africa, and central Europe (Buglaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, and Romania). Read complete bio
    • He as worked in various business functions including manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, strategy management and, finally, public and government affairs. Donald holds a BSc. Pure Science degree with a major in Physics and is on the Register of Consultants to UK Cabinet Office Performance & Innovation Unit (PIU). He first started to work with ICAP in 2001. He has been living and working in Central Europe since 1989.
  • Ernst Buning
    • Ernst Buning
    • Director, Quest for Quality/IHRA
    • Netherlands
    • Ernst Buning is a psychologist and Director of Quest for Quality, Training and Consultancy (Q4Q). He has been active in the field of substance use since 1977. Read complete bio
    • He started his career at the Drug Department of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service (GGD), where he worked as an outreach worker, set up the Amsterdam Methadone by Bus project, evaluated world's first needle exchange, developed Aids prevention strategies for drug users and initiated and lead the GGD Bureau International Relations on drugs and Aids. In 2000, he left the Municipal Health Service and started his own training and consultancy agency (see www.q4q.nl).In his present work, Ernst Buning is involved in a number of alcohol projects. He is president of the International Conferences on Alcohol and Harm Reduction (see: www.alcoholconference.org), has initiated -in cooperation with Dinamo, IHRA and ICAP- the Alcohol Policy Seminar (APS, see www.alcoholseminar.org) and is involved in the IHRA led project Alcohol and the City (see www.alcoholandthecity.org). Ernst Buning is one of the founders of the International Harm Reduction Association (see www.ihra.net).
  • Marie Choquet
    • Marie Choquet
    • Research Director, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
    • France
    • Marie Choquet graduated from the University of Louvain (MA, BA, Ph.D.) as a social psychologist and epidemiologist. She is a Research Director at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in France. Read complete bio
    • She is involved in research into adolescents' mental health, in particular regarding drug consumption, suicidal behavior, eating disorders, violent behavior and delinquency. Marie Choquet has published a large number of articles, having written, for example, international reports and chapters for books in her fields of research. Marie has also taken part in several international research projects, including the famous ESPAD study, which examined drug consumption among school children (Council of Europe), and research on alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems among women in European countries (Biomed II).
  • Philippe de Witte
    • Philippe de Witte
    • Director, Université Catholique de Louvain
    • Belgium
    • Professor De Witte heads the Laboratory of Behavioural Biology at the Université Catholique de Louvain. In 1987 he received a Fulbright Grant to complete a specialization in brain research at the NIH. He has also worked as invited Professor in Washington State University and the University of Colorado.  Read complete bio
    • He is the Editor in Chief of Alcohol and Alcoholism and on the editorial advisory board of a number of leading Journals including: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Addiction Biology, Alcoologie, Alcohol and Amino Acids. He was President of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) for two terms from 1993 – 2001 and was the President of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA, 1998-2002). He joined the ERAB Advisory Board in 2003 as Chairman on 1st January 2007.

       

      His research interests include pharmacology and neurobiology of addiction including therapeutics and treatments. He is a member of a number of professional bodies including ESBRA, ISBRA, Société Belge d'Alcoologie (SBA), The Belgian College of Neuropsychoparmacology and Biological Psychiatry (BCNBP) and the Société française d'Alcoologie (SFA) and has published over 200 articles in scientific journals, twice as many abstracts and book chapters.

  • R. Curtis Ellison, MD
    • R. Curtis Ellison, MD
    • Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine
    • United States
    • R. Curtis Ellison, MD, MSc (Epidemiology), is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Boston University School of Medicine and served as Chief of the Evans Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology from 1989 to 2008. Read complete bio
    • He holds degrees from Davidson College, the Medical University of South Carolina, and Harvard School of Public Health.  With training in internal medicine, cardiology, and epidemiology, Dr. Ellison also serves as a senior investigator in The Framingham Study, and has been the principal investigator of a number of research studies on the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in determining risk of hypertension, heart disease, dementia, and other diseases of ageing.  His research has especially focused on the relation of moderate alcohol intake to health and disease.  

       

      Dr. Ellison has published more than 200 scientific papers, and served recently as Guest Editor for a supplement to the Annals of Epidemiology entitled, "Health Risks & Benefits of Moderate Alcohol Consumption" (Ann Epidemiol 2007;17-S5:S1-S115).

       

       In July, 1994, Dr. Ellison established and became the director of the Institute on Lifestyle & Health at Boston University School of Medicine.  The institute monitors research on various aspects of lifestyle, especially diet and the moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages.  It regularly distributes critiques of emerging scientific reports related to alcohol consumption and health.

       

      Dr. Ellison is best known to the lay public for his research on what is known as the "French Paradox."  This refers to the fact that the French have a high-fat diet and other risk factors yet have very low rates of coronary heart disease, at least partly due to the consumption of wine.  Dr. Ellison and Dr. Serge Renaud of Lyon, France, were the key scientists who were a part of the program on the French Paradox that appeared on the American television program, 60 Minutes, in November, 1991 and again in 1995.  In addition, since the early 1990’s, Dr. Ellison has worked with the Oldways Foundation in the development of the "Mediterranean Diet Pyramid," a set of dietary guidelines for Americans.

       

      Dr. Ellison is a frequent speaker on the subject of alcohol and health to medical groups, the beverage industry, professional organizations, and lay audiences.  For his research related to alcohol and health, Dr. Ellison has received numerous awards, including the Premio Giacomo Bologna - La qualità della vita (Braida, Rocchetta Tanaro, Asti, 2002), the Integrity Award of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation (2002), an Oldways Honor Award (Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, Boston, MA, 2003); and the annual award from the Desert Heart Foundation for Outstanding Research in Cardiovascular Disease (2004).
  • Monica Gorgulho
    • Monica Gorgulho
    • DÍNAMO – Reliable Information about Drugs and Related Issues
    • Brazil
    • Monica Gorgulho is Director of DÍNAMO, an NGO that aims to fill the gap between existing scientific knowledge and practice in health, social, and cultural fields related to substance abuse. Read complete bio
    • She began her career in the alcohol and drugs field in 1991, working as a psychotherapist in a treatment service, PROAD – Escola Paulista de Medicina/Universidade Federal de São Paulo. After years of clinical practice, she became involved in projects developed by PROAD in partnership with the National Program of STD/AIDS, Brazilian Ministry of Health. In 1998, Monica was part of the organizing committee of the 9ª International Conference of Harm Reduction, held in São Paulo. She then helped launch the Brazilian Harm Reduction Network (Reduc), acting initially as its executive secretary and, from 2000 to 2003, as its President. She served on the Executive Committee of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) from 2002 to 2008. From 2003 to 2006, Monica acted as Technical Consultant on alcohol and other drugs policies at Mental Health Unit, Brazilian Ministry of Health. In 2004, with other colleagues, she founded DINAMO (Reliable Information about Drugs and Related Issues), an NGO that aims to fill the gap between existing scientific knowledge and concrete daily practices in health, social, and cultural fields related to the so-called “drugs phenomenon” (production, sale, and consumption). In 2005, she was one of the founders of the Brazilian Association for the Multidisciplinary Study on Dependences (ABRAMD) and is currently serving on its Executive Board.
  • Arthur Guerra de Andrade
    • Arthur Guerra de Andrade
    • President, Center for Information on Health and Alcohol (CISA)
    • Brazil
    • Arthur Guerra de Andrade received his Ph.D. in psychiatry at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo (1991) and his post-doctoral degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins University (1992). Read complete bio
    • He is the founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (GREA), Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of São Paulo. He is also the President of the Center for Information on Health and Alcohol (CISA), a Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo and a Full Professor at School of Medicine of ABC. Andrade is a Deputy President of the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA). He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of alcohol and drug dependence, and has numerous articles published in international scientific journals.
  • Walter Gulbinat
    • Walter Gulbinat
    • Manager, Global Network for Research in Mental and Neurological Health
    • Germany
    • Walter Gulbinat is a mathematician, statistician, and epidemiologist who obtained his qualifications in Germany at the Universities in Frankfurt (Main) and Tübingen. In 1968, he joined the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Read complete bio
    • For almost 30 years he held various positions in WHO's programmes on health statistics and mental health (including alcohol and substance abuse). From 1991 – 1995 he was responsible for WHO's programme on mental health epidemiology and programme management. In 1996 he was assigned Director, Statistics, Information & Knowledge Management, United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), Vienna, Austria. Since his retirement from UN services in 1999 he works as independent International Health Consultant advising institutions such as the Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR), Geneva, Switzerland; the World Bank, Washington, DC; World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Rockville, MD, USA; and the International Center for Alcohol Policies, Washington, DC.He was (Co-) Principal Investigator & Chief Statistician in numerous multi-centre, international studies in the fields of health, pharmacology, health services research, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. He has published extensively.Since 2001 he is the Manager of the Global Network for Research in Mental and Neurological Health, an internationally operating NGO registered in USA and in Zambia.Walter Gulbinat was borne in Frankfurt (Main) in Germany. He speaks German, English and French. In 1998 he was awarded by the Federal President of Germany the Federal Cross of Merit of the order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Hurst Hannum
    • Hurst Hannum
    • Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
    • United States
    • Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. Read complete bio
    • He has been a consultant to the United Nations on issues ranging from minority rights to the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Western Sahara and has served on the boards of a number of nongovernmental human rights organizations. He was the primary consultant to ICAP in developing the Dublin Principles and contributed to the Conference on Alcohol, Ethics, and Society. Among numerous other publications, Professor Hannum is author of Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights, editor of Guide to International Human Rights Practice and Negotiating Self-Determination, and co-author of International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice; Brandies and Liqueurs of the World; and The Fine Wines of California.
  • Alan Haworth
    • Alan Haworth
    • Professor of Psychiatry, University of Zambia
    • Zambia
    • Alan Haworth is professor of psychiatry in the University of Zambia and Head of the Zambian Ministry of Health (AIDS) Counseling Services Unit. Read complete bio
    • Besides carrying out research on alcohol-related problems in Zambia he served for many years on the expert advisory panel on Mental Health and Substance Abuse of the World Health Organizations and carried out consultancies on health aspects of alcohol consumption in many African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Botswana, Swaziland). He is currently involved in several research projects examining the role of alcohol in the spread of HIV infection and in the progression of the disease process in those who are infected. Dr. Haworth has taken a special interest in the role of the comsumption of illicit or non-commercial beverages (unrecorded consumption), especially in countries in poor economic circumstances.
  • Dwight B. Heath
    • Dwight B. Heath
    • Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
    • United States
    • Dwight B. Heath is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and a graduate of both Harvard and Yale Universities. He has combined cross-cultural with historical approaches to understand alcohol consumption and its outcomes in a rigorously social science context. Read complete bio
    • A pioneer in the study of drinking patterns, he has done original ethnographic research throughout much of Latin America and Europe. With practical applied as well as scientific interests, he also served as consultant to such diverse organizations at WHO, NIAAA, various national academics of sciences, business and industries, and governments (also in Latin America and Europe). Among his more than 300 scholarly and popular publications, his most recent books include: International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1995) and Drinking Occasions: Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture (Brunner/Mazell, Philadelphia, 2000).
  • Jeff Lee
    • Jeff Lee
    • Executive Director, The Mentor Foundation
    • United Kingdom
    • Jeff Lee is Executive Director of The Mentor Foundation. His career has involved substantial practical experience of education in schools, youth work, and training of teachers and other professionals. Read complete bio
    • Jeff was previously the chief executive of The Advisory Council on Alcohol and Drug Education (TACADE), a leading education, training and prevention non-government organization in the UK. Jeff has worked throughout the world in a consultancy capacity for governments and international organizations in helping to develop, implement and evaluate projects related to the field of substance misuse prevention. Jeff has also written a range of education and prevention articles and programmes for teachers, youth workers, trainers and other professionals involved in the fields of health, drugs and lifeskills education. Jeff has gained an international reputation for his expert, but practical, contribution to these areas.
  • Louise Nadeau
    • Louise Nadeau
    • Professor of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
    • Canada
    • Having established a certificate program in substance abuse at the Université de Montréal, Louise Nadeau received her doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1988). Read complete bio
    • Her current research focuses on DWI recidivists, on treatment and treatment outcomes for persons with addictions and other concurrent disorders, on female violence in couples with addiction problems and women of the general population and alcohol. Dr. Nadeau has been: Chair of the Quebec Government's Standing Committee on Addictions (1994-01); member of the National Forum on Health (1995-97); member of the Interim Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1998-99); member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (1990-00). Currently, she is member of the Board of Éduc'alcool (1990-), Trustee of the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (2003-), and vice-chair of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2000-2003; 2003-).Après avoir mis sur pied le Certificat en toxicomanie de l'Université de Montréal, Louise Nadeau a reçu un doctorat de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (1988). Elle est maintenant professeur titulaire au Département de Psychologie de l'Université de Montréal. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur les récidivistes arrêtés pour conduite avec capacités affaiblies, le traitement des troubles mentaux concomitants, la violence chez les femmes présentant une addiction et les femmes de la population générale et l'alcool. Dr Nadeau été membre du CA du Centre Canadien pour la lutte contre l'alcoolisme et les toxicomanies (1990-00), a présidé le Comité permanent de lutte à la toxicomanie du Gouvernement du Québec (1994-01). Elle fut membre du Forum National sur la Santé (1995-97) et du Conseil d'administration provisoire des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (1999-2000). Actuellement, elle est membre du Conseil d'administration d'Éduc'alcool et du Conseil d'administration du Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (2003-). Elle est la vice-présidente des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (2000-2003; 2003-).
  • Ian Newman
    • Ian Newman
    • Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • United States
    • Ian M. Newman is the Wesley C. Meierhenry Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Read complete bio
    • Ian Newman is the Director of the Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse at the University of Nebraska. A New Zealander who lives and works in the USA, and a former WHO staff member, Newman's interests focus on adolescent health related behaviors and how education and environmental/community strategies can reduce health- related risks. For the past 18 years he and his research team have focused much of their energies on understanding alcohol use among young people in Asia. They have developed instruments for exploring the roles of expectancies, self-efficacy and cultural orientation on adolescent alcohol use. Newman has organized major community-based initiatives in both the United States and Asia to increase understanding of the role alcohol plays in a community and to develop strategies to reduce alcohol-related risks.
  • Joyce O'Connor
    • Joyce O'Connor
    • President Emeritus, National College of Ireland
    • Ireland
    • Joyce O'Connor was President of the National College of Ireland, Chair of the Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC), and a member of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland. Read complete bio
    • She also chairs Dublin Inner City Partnership, is a Council member of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce and a Director of the ICS Building Society. Internationally, she has served as the Irish representative to the World Health Organisation and chaired the WHO expert committee on Alcohol and the Workplace. Professor O'Connor is an Eisenhower Fellow. She has received a number of prestigious awards. She has been recognized by the International Institute for Alcohol and Addiction for her research on drinking behaviour and received the ICAP Award for Effective Partnership.
  • John Orley
    • John Orley
    • Psychiatrist and Anthropologist
    • United Kingdom
    • John Orley is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who obtained his qualifications in the United Kingdom and practised in various African countries, as well as in the U.K. Read complete bio
    • From 1983 he worked for 15 years in the Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organization in Geneva, latterly as the Programme Manager. Since retiring from WHO, he has worked intermittently as a consultant for ICAP on a number of projects. In addition to this, Dr Orley has since 2000 been Chairman of the Clifford Beers Foundation, a society devoted to the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental disorders.
  • Stanton Peele
    • Stanton Peele
    • Addiction Researcher, Theorist and Writer
    • United States
    • Stanton Peele is a leading addiction researcher, theorist, and writer. He has won the Mark Keller Award for contribution to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and the career award for scholarship from the Drug Policy Alliance. Read complete bio
    • Among his classic works are: Love and Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. Dr. Peele emphasizes throughout his work on drugs and alcohol the role of individual agency and cultural and group influence on individual behavior and conceptions.
  • Flavio Poldrugo
    • Flavio Poldrugo
    • Professor of Psychiatry, University of Trieste
    • Italy
    • Flavio Poldrugo is Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, University of Trieste, Italy. The focus of his research is on prevention and treatment of alcohol problems in Italy, as well as in Belarus, Croatia, and the United States. Read complete bio
    • Prof. Poldrugo received his medical training in Psychiatry at the University of Trieste and subsequently earned a Doctorate in Pharmacology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. In addition to his faculty appointment, Prof. Poldrugo is the Head of the Office for Research and Innovative Projects on Alcohol, Other Addictions and Mental Health, and a member of the Committee for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Addictions in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region. Prof. Poldrugo is widely published in the fields of alcohol and addictions, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals.
  • Godfrey Robson
    • Godfrey Robson
    • Former Director of Health Policy in the Scottish Executive
    • United Kingdom
    • Godfrey Robson is Chairman of Scotland's largest independent company of management consultants and a Director of LloydsTSB Bank Scotland. Read complete bio
    • He is also a Trustee of a major Scottish charity providing health advice and services to young people. In his main career, he was a senior UK civil servant. For many years he was Head of Economic and Industrial Affairs for Scotland, and subsequently Director of Health Policy in the Scottish administration. This has given him a unique mix of experience dealing with alcohol issues from both the industry and public health perspectives. The current Scottish Ac Plan for Action on Alcohol Problems was drawn up under his direction. He has now been working with ICAP for over two years and is one of the co-editors of the ICAP Blue Book: Practical Guides to Alcohol Policy and Targeted Interventions.
  • Haydee Rosovsky
    • Haydee Rosovsky
    • Co-founder and Director of the Center for Educational and Community Responses (CRECE)
    • Mexico
    • Haydee Rosovsky is the co-founder and director of the Center for Educational and Community Responses (CRECE), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing programs that reduce substance abuse and promote mental health in schools and communities in Mexico. Read complete bio
    • She is active as an academic advisor to FISAC (Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales AC), a non-for profit organization that promotes research, scientific workshops and the diffusion of information on alcohol issues. Until early 2005, Ms. Rosovsky worked as a researcher in the Division of Epidemiological and Social Research of the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry, and during her 27-year tenure there she was responsible for several multinational studies on alcohol-related problems, in cooperation with WHO, NIAAA, and PAHO. She was appointed by the Minister of Health as Head of the National Council on Addictions (CONADIC) during the 1995-2000 administration, where she devoted her time to the development of programs for substance abuse reduction. During those years she became more aware of the gap between research and decision making, as well as of the complexity of the Mexican society for policy development. Ms. Rosovsky has published extensively and her research centers around alcohol-related problems and their indirect indicators, as well as approaches to prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Currently, she is preparing to present and publish her dissertation (Ph.D. in Sociology) entitled “Alcoholics Anonymous as a social organization: the Mexican case,” and she also intends to devote her time to future CRECE projects.
  • Eric Single
    • Eric Single
    • Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto
    • Canada
    • Eric Single is Professor of Public Health Sciences at theUniversity of Toronto, Policy Advisory Emeritus for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), and Honorary Professor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Read complete bio
    • He has more than 30 years of experience in research on addictions issues and has authored or co-authored 18 books, 27 book chapters, 60 journal articles, and numerous reports and other publications. Dr. Single was the first Research Director of the CCSA, organizer and first chair of the CCSA National Working Group on Addictions Policy and founding Director of the Collaborative Program on addictions at the University of Toronto. In 1996 he completed a major study estimating morbidity, mortality and economic costs attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs in Canada. In 1997, Dr. Single conducted an evaluation of Australia's National Drug Strategy on behalf of the Australian government. He has been a participant or director of eight WHO projects. Dr. Single is the principal author of the WHO International Guidelines for Estimating the Costs of Substance Abuse, and a co-author of the WHO Alcohol Monitoring Guidelines. He has also coordinated a major review underpinning new drinking guidelines for the Australia and evaluated the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand. Although partly retired, Dr. Single continues to consult regularly with national and international agencies on methodology, epidemiological monitoring and policy issues.
  • Boris Tabakoff
    • Boris Tabakoff
    • Professor & Chairman, University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • United States
    • Boris Tabakoff was trained as a molecular pharmacologist and behavioral genetics. Dr. Tabakoff received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. Read complete bio
    • His research over the years has followed a track in which experiments on the molecular mechanisms of drug action have been melded with assessments of genetic and environmental influences on behavior. His studies of drug actions (particularly, alcohol's actions) have concentrated on the examination of neural systems on which the drugs act to produce intoxication, tolerance, and physical dependence.Dr. Tabakoff's research endeavors have received significant peer recognition. He has been the recipient of The William Peck Scientific Research Award, The Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Excellence Award, and the Jellinek Memorial Award for Major Contributions to Alcoholism Research, and the Florence Rena Sabin Award for Exceptional Contributions to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, among others.Dr. Tabakoff has provided leadership within the alcohol research community by his active role as President of the Research Society on Alcoholism, and President of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Dr. Tabakoff's activities in neuropsychopharmacology, on an international level, have also been highlighted by his appointment as a member of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems, and as Scientific Director of the W.H.O. sponsored Multi-Center Study on State and Trait Markers in Alcoholism. Dr. Tabakoff has, in addition, played the leadership role in U.S.A. Federal Government alcoholism research efforts through his past position as Scientific Director for NIAAA's Intramural Research Programs, and in his past role as Acting Deputy Director for NIAAA. Currently, Dr. Tabakoff is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.In his role as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and through his own current research endeavors, Dr. Tabakoff has encouraged the application of the most modern technology to studies of alcoholism and other drug abuse. An example of this can be seen in the structure of the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) which is sponsored by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Dr. Tabakoff is part of the organizing committee and scientific advisory committee for INIA, and he has championed the utilization of gene expression arrays, NMR and x-ray crystallography, proteomics and mass spectrometry, as well as novel approaches in informatics as means of solving the complex problems of alcohol dependence and craving. Dr. Tabakoff is also the founder and President of Lohocla Research Corporation, which is dedicated to the development of diagnostic tools and treatments for alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental disorders. This corporation has played an important role in introducing target structure based drug design into the alcoholism medications development area, and has produced genetically-based diagnostic tools in the areas of alcoholism and depression. Through his research career, Dr. Tabakoff has published well over 300 research reports, reviews, and commentaries in the areas of alcohol addiction, other drug addictions, and mental health.
  • Enrico Tempesta
    • Enrico Tempesta
    • Neuropsychiatrist, Università Cattolica S. Cuore (USCS)
    • Italy
    • Enrico Tempesta received his medical training at the University of Perugia, with a specialization in Neuropsychiatry.  He holds an appointment in Neuropharmacology at the Università Cattolica S. Cuore (USCS), and has held positions on the faculties of the University of Birmingham, UK, University of Liberia, Kiorin University, Japan, and University of Chieti, Italy. Read complete bio
    • Professor Tempesta is currently the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Osservatorio Permanente sui Giovani e l’Alcool, Rome.  Over the years, he has also served on various committees, including for WHO on traditional medicine, DG-V Health and Social Security and Alcohol Policies, and has represented the Italian government before the UN Commission for Drugs.  Professor Tempesta is one of the founding members of the European Society for Addiction Research, and is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Addiction.
  • Eva Tongue-Toaso
    • Eva Tongue-Toaso
    • Vice-Chairman, NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs, UN Office, Vienna
    • Hungary
    • Eva Tongue-Toaso received her Doctorate “cum laude” in Law and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránt University, Budapest, Hungary. Read complete bio
    • In 2000, she retired as Executive Director of the International Council on Alcohol & Addictions (ICAA) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she had held various positions since 1963. Dr. Tongue is currently the Vice-Chair of the NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs at the UN Office in Vienna. She also holds the position of permanent representative of the International Federation of University Women, also at the UN Office in Vienna. Dr. Tongue-Toaso has been actively involved in the field of substance abuse, including both narcotics and alcohol throughout her career. She has had particular interest in the problems of drug abuse on the African continent, where she developed and helped implement prevention and treatment programs. Dr. Tongue's work has been recognised internationally; she is the recipient of the 3rd Degree Order of Triphon Saint Martyr, Moscow, Russia (2003), the Diploma of Appreciation from the Minister of Children, Youth and Sports, Hungary (2003) and the McDermott Humanitarian Award (1992).