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UB VPHS Special Presentation by NIH NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow

Dr. Nora D. Volkow.

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, noon to 1 p.m., via Zoom 

Nora D. Volkow, MD, is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest funder of scientific research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder. As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. 

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