Societies, Editorial Boards, Teaching

Professional Societies, Editorial Boards, and Teaching.

Professional Societies:

 American Association for the Advancement of Science (1969‑present; Honorary Fellow, 2018)

 Society for Neuroscience (1973‑present; Nominating Committee, 1984‑1987; Presidential Symposium Speaker, 1990; Public Information Committee, 1996-1999; Social Issues Committee, 2003-2006; President, Atlanta Chapter, 2003-2004)

 American Society for Neurochemistry (1973‑1983; Program Committee, 1978; Organizer of Symposiumon Neural Peptides, 1978)

 American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1974‑present; 2014 – 2023, Emeritus, Symposium Organizer at International Meeting, 1984; Selection Committee for Otto Krayer Award, 1993, 1997, 2002; and    Neuropharmacology Division Executive Committee, 2002-2005, and Chair, 2003-2004; John Jacob Abel Award Committee, 2004-2007; Program Committee, 2006-2008; Neuropharmacology Division Nominating Committee, 2007)

Mid‑Atlantic Acetylcholine Discussion Group (1973‑1978; Co‑Chairman, 1975)

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Scientific Associate, 1978; Member, 1980; Fellow,1986‑present; Member of Education and Training Committee, 1984‑1987; Program Committee,1988‑1990; Ethics Committee, 1991‑1993; Credentials Committee, 1993-1995; Animals in Research Committee, 2001-2004; Emeritus, 2013- present)

 International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (1979‑present)

 International Drug and Alcohol Research Society (IDARS) (Member 2004-present; President, 2004-2008, Board of Directors 2004-2023)

 International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) (Member 2012 – 2016)

 College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc. (Member, 1994; Board of Directors, 1994-1998; Fellow, 1998; Executive Committee, 1999-2001; President, 1999-2000; Charter Member, 2006; Nominating Committee, 1994-1995; Publications Committee, 1994-1995; Media Relations Committee, Chair, 1994-1997; Long-Range Planning Committee, 2001-2004; Media Committee, 2001-2007; ONDCP Task Force, 2001-2003; Program Committee, 2013-2016, Awards Committee, 2016 -19)

Neuroethics Society (2007 – 2018)

Editorial Boards:

                      Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research                                          (2021 - )

                      Biochemical Pharmacology                                                                 (2004-2013)

                      Brain Research                                                                                    (1980‑1989)

                      Current Molecular Pharmacology                                                       (2008- 2020)

                      Current Opinion in Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems        (1998-2000)

                          Current Protocols in Pharmacology                                                     (1996-2001)

                      Drug and Alcohol Dependence                                                        (1995-2001)

                      Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology                             (1992-2000)

                      International Journal of Molecular Medicine                                      (1997-2013)

                      Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy                                                   (1987‑2000)

                      Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research, Editor-in-Chief                   (2012-2019)

                      Journal of Neurochemistry                                                                   (1980‑1985)

                      Journal of Neuroscience                                                                       (1983‑1989)

                      Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics             (1993-2006)

                      Life Sciences                                                                                         (2003-2012)

                      Medical Hypotheses and Research                                                    (2003-2013)

                      Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience                                                (1990-1995)

                      Neurobiology of Aging                                                                           (1980‑1985)

                      NeuroImage                                                                                            (1991‑1995)

                      Neuropeptides                                                                                        (1980‑ 2011)

                      Neuropharmacology                                                                              1980‑1992)

                      Neuropsychopharmacology                                                                 (1991‑1995)

                      Neuroscience-Net                                                                                  (1996- 2005)

                      Substance and Alcohol Misuse                                                             (1980-1985)

                      Synapse                                                                                                  (1992‑ 2008

                      Peptide Research                                                                                  (1989‑1994)

                      Peptides                                                                                                   (2007-2011)

                      Research Communications in Substances of Abuse                       (1991-1995)

                      Trends in Neuroscience                                                                        (1982-1994

                      The Open Ethics Journal                                                                      (2007- 2011)

                      Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment                                    (2007- 2012)

Teaching:

(January 1995 to June 2024 at Emory University)

Dr Kuhar has been involved in teaching and training: graduate students in the Neuroscience Program and in the Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Program, medical students in the psychiatry and pharmacology courses, post-doctoral fellows and PGY IV residents in the Addictions Psychiatry Program.  He also gives lectures in eight courses in various programs. (Note that in addition to this teaching and mentoring at Emory, He did similar work in the Depts of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1972 to 1985 as faculty, and then from 1985 to 1995 as an Adjunct.)

Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Graduate Program:

1.     Executive Committee for 3 years.

2.     Director of student qualifying exams, 2 years.

3.     Director of IBS 531, the main Pharmacology course for incoming graduate students, for 3 years.

4.     Lectures in IBS 531, 532, 506Y, 717, 501, 570R

5.     Course Director for IBS 717, Neuropharmacology, and course Director for MSP501 Ethics.

6.     Involvement in new student interviewing and recruiting.

7.     Since 1995, mentored about 30 trainees.

8.     Thesis committees for 15 students.

Neuroscience Graduate Program:

1.     Mentored rotation students, about 2 per year.

2.     Chair of Nominating Committee for new program directors and committee members, for 6 years.

3.     Thesis committees.

4.     Involvement in new student interviewing and recruiting.

5.     Course Director for Frontiers in Neuroscience, a required seminar course for 2 years.

6.     Course C0-Director for NS570 and IBS717.

7.     Lectures in Systems Neuroscience Course and in Frontiers of Neuroscience Series.

8.     Executive Committee, 3 years.

Medical Students:

1.     Lectures on antidepressant, antipsychotic and Alzheimer’s drugs in the Pharmacology Course.

2.     Lectures on psychostimulants in the Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry Course.

3.     Lectures on Pharmacokinetics in Module 1.

PGY IV Addictions Psychiatry Program:

1.     Advisor to Program Director since inception of the program.

2.     Lectures on general drug abuse, psychostimulants, buprenorphine and drug development to residents and Fellows in Addiction Psychiatry.

Postdoctoral Fellows:

1.     Mentor to 20 fellows.

Other:

1.     In the role of Senior Scientist and Chief of the Neuroscience Division at Yerkes, I both formally and informally mentored young faculty as well as students and fellows.

2.     Lectures in Grants Workshop for Emory faculty and fellows and students.

3.     Director of the Institutional NIDA Training Program (2003 – 2014), “The Neurobiology of Drug Abuse”, which provided 10 training slots to our training faculty per year.

4.     Ethics lectures on Authorship, Research Misconduct, Mentoring, Data Management and Collegial Ethics

5.     Lectures to Tibetan monks in the ETSI program in India, 3 consecutive summers (2008-11), on drug Addiction.

6.     Lectures on drug addiction to Anesthesiology Associates and in IBS532, NS570, IBS506, MSP501, and IBS717. Also, discussion leader on Research Misconduct in GAH601.

7.     Development and presentation of a MOOC with Emory and Coursera: “The Addicted Brain”

8.     Numerous lectures on ethics and addiction to the community in various forums or courses.

9.     Mentor to trainee in the Center for Ethics.

10.   Various lectures on ethical topics in a variety of meetings and forums

11. At The Johns Hopkins Depat of Neuroscience, one of the founders of th ePhD Program.

Students, Fellows, and Visitors:

  More than seventy pre- and postdoctoral students, visitors and other trainees have spent time training in Dr Kuhar’s laboratory in research. Many went on to important positions in academia, industry, and government.