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 
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