Dr. Charles Schuster is an internationally recognized researcher on the psychopharmacology of drugs of abuse. From 1986-1992 Dr. Schuster served as the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In January 1992, Dr. Schuster returned to his research career as a Senior Research Scientist at the Addiction Research Center of the NIDA. In 1995 Dr. Schuster was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Director of the Clinical Research Division on Substance Abuse. He is also the editor of the APA journal: Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Prior to joining the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1986, Dr. Schuster was the Director of the University of Chicago's Drug Abuse Research Center, and Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Behavioral Science. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters and several books. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence of the World Health Organization.
Dr. Schuster received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, his M.S. from the University of New Mexico, and a B.A. from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the American Psychological Association, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Schuster is the recipient of numerous awards including the Nathan B. Eddy Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Awards for the Applications of Psychology, E. M. Jellinek Award from Yale University and was the first recipient of the H. David Archibald Award from the Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto, Canada. He was recently elected to the Presidency of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence for 2000.
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