Last updated on:
9/1/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Igor Grant, MD Biography
- Title:
- Executive Vice Chairman at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Department of Psychiatry
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“The therapeutic action of botanical cannabis… may be of value in the treatment of certain types of pain, epilepsy, spasticity, eating disorders, inflammation, and possibly blood pressure control.”
Cowritten with B. Rael Cahn “Cannabis and Endocannabinoid Modulators: Therapeutic Promises and Challenges,” Journal of Clinical Neuroscience Research, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director, Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, 2000-present
- Program Project Director, NeuroAIDS: Effects of Methamphetamine, 1999-present
- Executive Vice Chairman, UCSD Department of Psychiatry, 1998-present
- Director, California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network, 1998-present
- Deputy Editor, AIDS and Behavior, 1995-present
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1994-present
- Director, San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC), 1989-present
- Editorial Board, Behavioural Neurology, 1989-present
- Editorial Board, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 1988-present
- Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University, Department of Psychology, 1986-present
- Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1995-present
- Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 1982-present
- Chief, Ambulatory Care for Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, 1976-present
- Education:
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- Residency, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1971
- Internship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1966-67
- MD, University of British Columbia, 1966
- Other:
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- None found
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