Teaching staff 

Lecturers will be selected from among the world’s leading authorities in each of these subject areas, while programme directors will be faculty members of the three participating universities.

Lecturers

Lecturers will be selected from among the world's leading authorities.

A few people that will be giving a lecture for the first course “Introduction to Addiction” are:

• Steven Negus,  VCU
• Jason White, University of Adelaide
• Rod Irvine, University of Adelaide
• Ian Stolerman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's COllege London
• T.K. Li, NIAAA
• Vijay Ramchandani, NIAAA
• Robert Balster, VCU
• Rafael Mechoulam, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• George Koob, Scripps Research Institute
• Kenneth Kendler, VCU
• Danielle Dick, VCU
• Sharon Walsh, Univeristy of Kentucky
  

For the second course "Public Health Issues and Approaches to Addiction" lecturers include:

• Don DesJarlais (New York Department of Public Health)
• Dick Clayton (University of Kentucky)
• Isidore Obot (WHO; University of Uyo, Nigeria) 
• Sid Schnoll (Purdue Pharma)
• Faye Taxman (George Mason University)
• Elizabeth Turf (VCU)

 For the course "Treatment of Addiction: Pharmacotherapies" lecturers include: 

• Richard Saitz, Boston Medical Center
• Alyson Bond, KCL
• Frank Vocci
• Tom Kosten, Baylor University
• Femke Buisman-Pijlman, University of Adelaide
• James Bell, Langton Centre, Sidney, AU
• Sandra Comer, Columbia University
• Neal Benowitz, University of California
• Bankole Johnson, University of Virginia
• Hendree Jones, Johns Hopkins
• John Strang, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

For the course "Treatment of Addiction: Psychosocial interventions" lecturers include: 

• Kim Wolff, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
• Shamil Wanigaratne, KCL
• Maxine Stitzer, Johns Hopkins
• Luke Mitcheson, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
• Robert West
• Gonzalo Acuna, MD
• Jeffrey Roth, MD
• Barney Strauss, LCSW
• Charalampos Poulopoulos, PhD--Director of KETHEA
• Alex Copello, University of Birmingham
   

For the course "Treatment of Addiction: Critical issues" lecturers include: 

• Loretta Finnegan, MD
• Sally Porter, MD--Consultant Psychiatrist South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
• John Witton, Health Services Research Coordinator, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
• Reverend Professor Chris Cook
• Tony Rao, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
• Dr. Chris Sargeant, Brighton Homeless Healthcare UK
• Prof. Dr. Gabriele Fischer, Medical Unicersity of Vienna Addiction Clinic
   

For the course "Addiction Policy" lecturers include: 

• David Courtright, Univeristy of North Florida
• Peter Cohen, MD JD, University of Georgetown Medical Center
• Charles O'Keeffe, VCU
• Willem Scholten, World Health Organization
• Martin Iguchi, UCLA School of Public Health
• Geoffrey Laredo, NIDA
• Michael Farrell, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
• A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, University of Pennslyvania
• Wilson Compton, MD, MPE, NIDA
    

Programme responsibility 

The following staff is responsible for the development and organization of the Master programme:

VCU

Mary Loos, PhD
Prof. Robert Balster, PhD
Elizabeth Turf, PhD
Prof. Charles O'Keefe

King’s College

Kim Wolff, PhD
Prof. John Strang

University of Adelaide

Femke Buisman-Pijlman, PhD 
Prof. Jason White, PhD