President's Lecture - Tuesday April 14 - Kunsela Hall
Lecture Hall - 12:15 pm
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Dr. Brian Johnson, M.D., Associate Professor Psychiatry/Anesthesia at SUNY Upstate, will present “Heroin and other opioids on campus” on Tuesday, April 14, 12:15-2 p.m., in Kunsela Lecture Hall, as part of the President’s Lecture Series.
Dr. Johnson has been Director of Addiction Psychiatry and Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate
Medical University in Syracuse 2008. He taught about addiction at
Harvard Medical School for 30 years before moving to Upstate. He
received a B.S. in 1972 from the Columbia University School of
Engineering, New York City, and an M.D. in 1976 from the New York
Medical College, Valhalla, New York. After completing an internship
at Harlem Hospital, New York City, he did residencies in medicine at
Metropolitan Hospital, New York City, and in psychiatry at Cambridge
Hospital, Massachusetts, as well as psychoanalytic training at the
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is certified in Addiction
Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology, and Addiction Psychiatry. He has
published extensively in scientific and medical journals about
addiction, psychiatry, neuropsychoanalysis, and the effects of
various drugs.