Our Fellows
The Institute is led by Kevin A. Sabet, PhD, a drug policy practitioner who has served in The White House under Presidents Clinton and Bush, and most 
recently as Senior Drug Policy Advisor for President Obama’s drug czar. Dr. Sabet is a doctorate in public policy analysis from Oxford University (Marshall Scholar) with an emphasis on drug policy, drug prevention, drug enforcement, and legalization. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is a frequent contributor to editorial pages and the television news media, including the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Al Jazeera, the BBC,
and many more. His recent New York Times and Los Angeles Times op-eds have earned him a “Five Best Columns” distinction from The Atlantic. He is also currently serving as one of five Americans on the Hemispheric expert panel charged to draft the “Report on Drug Policy for the Summit of the Americas,” organized by the Organization of American States.
The Institute’s Senior Fellows include Department of Psychiatry & Pediatrics Chair Dr. Mark S. Gold, Vice Chair Scott Teitelbaum, MD, Assistant Professor Lisa Merlo-Green, PhD, and Professor Linda Cottler, PhD, MPH.
Non-resident Senior Fellows include a slew of researchers and practitioners, including Carnegie Mellon’s Jonathan Caulkins, Pepperdine University’s Angela Hawken, Treatment Research Institute’s Tom McLellan, Global Recovery Institute’s Christopher Kennedy Lawford, and Harvard University’s Viridiana Rios, a New York Times contributor on Mexican drug policy issues.
Director
Dr. Kevin A. Sabet
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine
David F. Musto Drug Policy Fellow
Appointment 2013
Senior Fellows
Dr. Mark S. Gold
Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry.
Dr. Scott Teitelbaum
Department Vice Chair and Clinical Chief of the Addiction Medicine Division
Dr. Linda Cottler
Chair, Department of Epidemiology, College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions
Dr. Lisa Merlo
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Chief, Undergraduate Education
John Harden, LCSW, MPH
Executive Director, Florida Recovery Center
Michael Nias, JD, LCSW
Assistant Professor and Director, Adolescent Addiction and Family Evaluation, Wellness & Therapy Program
Non-Resident Senior Fellows
Dr. Jonathan Caulkins
H. Guyford Stever Professorship of Operations Research and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Robert L. DuPont
Former White House Senior Advisor to the President & Founding Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dr. Angela Hawken
Professor, Pepperdine University
Melody Heaps
President Emeritus, Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC)
Dr. Keith Humphreys
Professor, Stanford University
Dr. Herb Kleber
Former White House Deputy Drug Czar and Professor, Columbia University
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Founder and CEO, Global Recovery Initiative
Dr. Tom McLellan
Former White House Deputy Drug Czar and President, Treatment Research Institute (TRI)
Jim McDonough
Former Florida Drug Czar
Dr. Maria Elena Medina-Mora
Director, Division of Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
Viridiana Rios
Harvard University
Darryl Rouson
Ranking Member, Florida State Legislature
Dr. Giovanni Serpelloni
Director, Department of Anti-Drug Policies, Italy
Dr. Elisabetta Simeoni
Scientific Director, Department of Anti-Drug Policies, Italy
Steven Talpins, J.D.
President, National Partnership of Alcohol Misuse and Crime
Susan Thau
Public Policy Consultant
Dr. Christian Thurstone
President, Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society