Council

President

F. Scott Hall

University of Toledo

Toledo, OH, USA
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Dr. F. Scott Hall received his Psychology BA from Harvard College, and went on to receive Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of Cambridge. He joined IBNS in 1998 and has played a big role ever since. Dr. Hall has been a member of several other committees, chaired the Membership & Communication Committees, was elected Fellow in 2012, and IBNS President in 2017.

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President-Elect

Jared Young

University of California
  at San Diego

San Diego, CA, USA
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Jared received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and went on to the University of California, San Diego to complete his postdoc. There, he is currently an Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry.

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Treasurer

Mikhail Pletnikov

Johns Hopkins University

  School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA
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Dr. Pletnikov received his M.D. from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute and went on to receive Ph.D. from P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology. He joined IBNS in 1999, previously served as the 2015 - 2017 IBNS President, as well as served as the Program Chair and Co-Chair.

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Secretary

Tiffany Donaldson
University of Massachusetts
Boston, MA, USA
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A graduate with a BA in Biology and Spanish with Honors from Dartmouth College, Dr. Donaldson completed a Master's at Harvard College in Psychology (concentration in Psychopharmacology) and obtained her Ph.D. in Psychobiology from Northeastern University in 1993. Dr. Donaldson joined IBNS in 2014 and served on the Program Planning Committee from 2016 - 2018.

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Australasia

Yasushi Kiyokawa
The University of         Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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Yasushi Kiyokawa is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. After studying Veterinary Medicine at The University of Tokyo and obtaining a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, as is common in Japan, he continued his research at the same laboratory and received his Ph.D. in 2006. He then worked as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and became Assistant Professor in 2010.

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Canada

Liisa Galea

The University 
  of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Dr. Liisa Galea received her Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario. In addition to being a member of IBNS since 2012, her roles also include: Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, Scientific Advisor at the Women's Health Research Institute, and Professor of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology at the University of British Columbia. 

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Europe

Verity Brown

University of 
  St. Andrews

St. Andrews, Scotland

Brown read psychology as an undergraduate at the University College London and then spent one year at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying neuroscience. She went on to her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience at Cambridge University, supervised by Professor Trevor W. Robbins, FRS. Brown spent four years in the USA as a post-doc at the National Institutes of Health, working first with David Lee Robinson (NEI), and then with Mortimer Mishkin and Bob Desimone (NIMH).

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Europe

Davide Amato

Medical University 
  of South Carolina

Charleston, SC, USA
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Dr. Davide Amato is a graduate of Sapienza University of Rome. Dr. Amato became an IBNS member in 2013 and served as a Guest-Editor for the IBNS newsletter. Now, in addition to being a Council member, he is Chief-Editor of the newsletter as well as a member of the Program Committee and the Communication Committee. Additionally, he is on the teaching staff of the Medical University of South Carolina (Behavioral Neuroscience) and conducts and supervises research in neurocircuitry of relapse to cocaine (MUSC).

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Latin America

Rosalinda 
Guevera-Guzman

Universidad Nacional 

  Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
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Rosalinda received her MD from the Facultad de Medicine de la UNAM. She then pursured a Master's Degree in Physiological Sciences at the Divison de Estudios de Posgrado. There, she was awarded the "Gabino Barreda" medal when receiving her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences in Physiology, with honors. She is a full-time Titular Professor level "C" at the Physiology Department of the Facultad de Medicine, National Research Scientist (SNI) Level III, and member of PRIDE level "D," DGAPA, UNAM.

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USA

Susanne Brummelte

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI, USA
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Dr. Brummelte received her Ph.D. from the University of Bielefeld, Germany and went on to Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia. She joined IBNS in 2009, as a Postdoc, and was previously Council Secretary from 2012-2015.

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USA

Jill Silverman

University of California 
  Davis

Sacramento, CA, USA
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A graduate of Rutgers University with Honors, Dr. Silverman attended medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. She completed her postdoctoral research training in the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program.

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USA

Amanda Kentner

MCPHS University

Boston, MA, USA
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Dr. Amanda (Mandy) Kentner earner her Ph.D in Experimental Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, focusing on sex differences in depression. The first academic conference she attended was IBNS in 2002. In the spring of 2012, Dr. Kentner joined the Health Psychology program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, in Boston, Massachusetts. In this role, she teaches several courses including Biological Psychology, Stress & Illness, Drugs & Behavior, and a Health Psychology Capstone.

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Student

Patricia de la Tremblaye
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Dr. de la Tremblaye has been a member of IBNS since 2013. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with specialization in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Ottawa, under the direction of Dr. Helene Plamondon.

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