Igor Grant Named Chair of UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry

Igor Grant Named Chair of UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
Igor Grant, MD, FRCP(C), an internationally recognized neuropsychiatrist, whose research interests have ranged from the neurobiology of HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, psychobiology of stress, to the therapeutic potential of medicinal cannabis, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
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