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Nady el-Guebaly, C.M., M.D., DPH, DPsych, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, past Head of Addiction Division, University of Calgary; Consulting Psychiatrist at the Addiction Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta Health Services. Along with investigators at the University of Calgary, he has established a program of clinical research in the field of adult and adolescent substance abuse with particular focus on the interaction of psychiatric disorders and substance use, the continuing medical education of health professionals, and treatment outcome and aspects of gambling problems. He has served as President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine and International Society of Addiction Medicine.  He is currently Chief Examiner, International Society of Addiction Medicine. Giuseppe Carrà, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milano Bicocca-I and a Research Associate at the UCL Division of Psychiatry in London. His research interests include addiction psychiatry, psychoeducational interventions in schizophrenia, and psychiatric disorders in jails. He has served on several expert panels in the addiction field for the European Commission, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).   Marc Galanter, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry at NYU. He has served as a Clinical Associate at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health; as President of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine; and as Chief Editor of the International Society of Addiction Medicine. He founded the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at NYU and the journal “Substance Abuse;” is co-editor of the American Psychiatric Association’s “Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment,” and ISAM’s “Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives,” and has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, addressing pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment for addiction, and the psychology of Twelve-Step recovery. Alexander M. Baldacchino, MD, MPhil, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych is Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions at St Andrews University, Scotland, UK. He also works clinically with NHS Fife Addiction Services as a consultant in addiction medicine. He is President Elect and Executive Board Member for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). His research portfolio has a common theme of furthering our understanding the comorbid conditions (physical and psychological) arising as a result of chronic abuse of pharmacological agents with dependence potential especially opioids, nicotine and alcohol.

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