Advisory Board

Advisory Board Chairman Emeritus, Lewis L. Judd, M.D., D.Sc. (Hon.)

Lewis Lund Judd, who held the position of chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UC San Diego School of Medicine for 36 years before stepping down in 2013 – an astounding 70 percent of the university’s existence at the time – died December 16, 2018. Dr. Lewis L. Judd was a faculty member at UC San Diego School of Medicine for over 40 years and was the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry from 1977 to 2014, the longest serving department chair in the history of the university. He was 88 years old... more.

Professor Ron de Kloet

Ron de Kloet is the Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at the LACDR, Leiden University and the Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands.

For half a century Professor de Kloet has been fascinated by the question how stress hormones, that are critical for life, can change their action in the brain from protective to harmful, while enhancing vulnerability to stress-related disorders... more.

E. Sherwood Brown, M.D., Ph.D.

E. Sherwood Brown, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor with Tenure, Vice Chairman for Faculty Research Development, the Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Science and Director of the Psychoneuroendocrine Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. ... more.

Laurence Fardet, M.D., Ph.D.

Laurence Fardet is academic professor at Paris XII University (France). Since the beginning of her academic career, she has been involved in epidemiological studies regarding both the use of glucocorticoids in the general population and the incidence of and risk factors for their adverse events, in particular the neuropsychiatric and metabolic ones. ... more.