Chairperson
Volkow, Nora D., M.D.
Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health, DHHS
Bethesda, MD 20892-9581
Members
Agrawal, Arpana, Ph.D. 11/30/2025
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110
Beebe Devarney, Katherine L., Ph.D. 11/30/2025
President and Chief Operating Officer
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Chassler, Deborah, MS 11/30/2026
Senior Academic Researcher and Instructor
Boston University School of Social Work
Boston, MA 02215
Chavkin, Charles, Ph.D. 11/30/2024
Allan and Phyllis Treuer Endowed Chair in Pain Research
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Childress, Anna Rose, Ph.D., MA, BS 5/28/2024
Research Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Addiction Treatment Research Center
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6178
Deer, Dennis, Ph.D. 5/28/2024
County Board Commissioner, 2nd District
Cook County Government
Chicago, Il 60602
Etkin, Amit, Ph.D., M.D., MPhil 11/30/2024
Chief Executive Officer
Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
369 South San Antonio Road
Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
Los Altos, CA 94022
Greenfield, Shelley F., MPH, AB, M.D. 5/28/2024
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
McLean Hospital
Belmont, MA 02478
Helena Hansen, M.D., Ph.D. 11/30/2025
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Regina LaBelle M., J.D. 11/30/2026
Distinguished Scholar, Director
Addiction and Public Policy Institute
O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC 20001
Laird, Angela R., Ph.D. 11/30/2026
Director, Center for Imaging Science
Professor, Department of Physics
College of Arts, Sciences and Education
Florida International University
Miami, Fl 33199
Ostrovsky, Andrey, M.D. 5/28/2024
Managing Partner
Social Innovation Ventures
Lewes, DE 19958
Ott, Melanie M., Ph.D., M.D. 11/30/2024
Director
Gladstone Institute of Virology
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94158
Rieder, Travis N., Ph.D. 5/28/2024
Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program
Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21205
Sinha, Rajita, Ph.D. 5/28/2024
Professor
Chief, Psychology Section in Psychiatry
Director, Yale Interdisciplineary Stress Center
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 06519-1717
Von Zastrow, Mark E., MPhil, B.S., M.D., Ph.D. 11/30/2025
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94107
Walls, Melissa L., Ph.D., BAS 5/28/2024
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Executive Secretary
Weiss, Susan R.B., Ph.D. 12/31/2025
Director, Division of Extramural Research
Division of Extramural Research
Office of The Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health, DHHS
Rockville, MD 20892
Ex-Officio Members
Becerra, Xavier
Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20201
Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892