Council Roster

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

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. 5/31/2024 
Research Professor in Psychiatry 
Department of Psychiatry 
Perelman School of Medicine 
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6178

Deer, Dennis, Ph.D. 5/31/2024 
County Board Commissioner, 2nd District 
Cook County Government 
Chicago, Il 60602

Etkin, Amit, MPhil, M.D., Ph.D. 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, M.D. 5/31/2024 
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

Ostrovsky, Andrey, M.D. 5/31/2024 
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. 5/31/2024 
Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program 
Berman Institute of Bioethics 
Johns Hopkins University 
Baltimore, MD 21205

Sinha, Rajita, Ph.D. 5/31/2024 
Foundations Fund Endowed Professor of Psychiatry 
Department of Psychiatry 
Yale University School of Medicine 
New Haven, CT 06519-1717

Von Zastrow, Mark E., M.D., B.S., Ph.D., MPhil 11/30/2025 
Professor 
Department of Psychiatry 
University of California, San Francisco 
San Francisco, CA 94107

Walls, Melissa L., Ph.D. 5/31/2024 
Associate Professor 
Department of International Health 
Bloomburg School of Public Health 
Johns Hopkins University 
Baltimore, MD 21231

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