Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), recently was named to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Scientific Council.
Dr. Cowan, a respected physician-scientist, was jointly nominated for the position because of his leadership in addiction research by Peter Buckley, MD, chancellor for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Stephan Heckers, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who are are longstanding members of the Scientific Council.