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
Consultant, Director
BioCorRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Anaheim, CA 92806
Chassler, Deborah, MS 11/30/2026
Senior Academic Researcher and Instructor
Boston University School of Social Work
Boston, MA 02215
Chavkin, Charles, Ph.D. 5/31/2025
Allan and Phyllis Treuer Endowed Chair in Pain Research
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Duarte, Christiane S., MPH, Ph.D. 11/30/2026
Ruane Professor for the Implementation of Science for Child and Adolescent
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Columbia University
New York, NY 10032
Etkin, Amit, Ph.D., M.D., MPhil 5/31/2025
Chief Executive Officer
Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
369 South San Antonio Road
Alto Neuroscience, Inc.
Los Altos, CA 94022
Hansen, Helena, 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
LaBelle, Regina 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
Ott, Melanie M., Ph.D., M.D. 5/31/2025
Director
Gladstone Institute of Virology
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94158
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
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
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Office of the Secretary, DHHS
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20201
Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-3203