Professor Dan Lubman, BSc(Hons), MB ChB, PhD, FRANZCP, FAChAM Position: Director of Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre (Eastern Health) and Professor of Addiction Studies and Services (Monash University)

Expertise

Professor Dan Lubman has worked across mental health and drug treatment settings in UK and Australia.

He is the Director of Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre at Eastern Health and Professor of Addiction Studies and Services at Monash University. Dr Lubman's research focuses on investigating substance use and comorbidity in youth. This includes a number of pharmacological and psychological treatment trials in psychosis and depression as well as psychophysiological, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies examining the neurobiology of addiction.

A particular research interest is exploring the impact of substance use on adolescent brain development. Dr Lubman has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and book chapters and he is the Chair of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Section of Addiction Psychiatry, and an advisory board member of Addiction Neuroscience Network Australia, the National Cannabis Prevention & Information Centre and the National Drug Research Institute.

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