Yasmin Hurd

Dr. Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair in Translational Neuroscience as well as Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York. She is also the Director of the Addiction Institute at the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System. She is an internationally renowned neuroscientist whose preclinical and clinical translational research examines the neurobiology of substance use disorders and related psychiatric disorders with primary focus on opioid abuse and the developmental effects of cannabis. She was inducted into both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.