biography

Prof. Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, is a Chief of the Department of Addictions at St. Petersburg Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute and a Chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology of Addictions at St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, Russia. Since 2006 he also holds a position of Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Krupitsky received several national and international awards including European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Fellowship Award (1997), Heffter Research Institute Award for Outstanding Research in Hallucinogens (2000), Award of the Government of Russian Federation for Outstanding Research in Medicine (2005), and National Institute Drug Abuse (NIDA) Award for Excellence in International Leadership. Dr. Krupitsky published many papers in the international psychiatric journals and he is also an author of several chapters in the international manuals and two books on the treatment of alcoholism and addictions published in Russian. Dr. Krupitsky has been a Co-PI on several NIDA and NIAAA grants.