Alcohol: From everyone's favourite drug to public health emergency Event
- Time:
- 16:30
- Date:
- 14 October 2013
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre 1, Southampton General Hospital How to access LT1 room from the Main Hospital entrance - Level C: - Turn right at the Upper Crust cafe - Turn left after the lifts into the South Academic Block and go along corridor - At the next set of lifts on the right take the stairs down to Level B - Go straight along the corridor past School of Medicine corridor - Turn left into the Lecture Theatre foyer - Lecture theatre 1 is the third set of double doors on the right
For more information regarding this event, please email Carole Evans at ce1v11@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
We would like to invite students and members of staff to a public lecture by Professor David Nutt which will take place on Monday 14th October 2013.
We would like to invite students and members of staff to a public lecture by Professor David Nutt which will take place on Monday 14th October 2013 at 4:30pm in LT1 room in Southampton General Hospital.
To register please email Mrs Carole Evans on ce1v11@soton.ac.uk by 9th October 2013.
David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, is the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging at Imperial College London. David is President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), UK Director of the ‘European Certificate in Anxiety and Mood Disorders' and the ‘Masters in Affective Disorders' Courses jointly administered by the Universities of Maastricht, Bristol and Florence. In addition, he is the Editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology, advisor to the British National Formulary and on the MRC Neuroscience Board.
Amongst many other appointments, David has previously been Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). In 2004-2005 he was the clinical scientific lead on the UK Government Foresight initiative "Brain science, addiction and drugs" that provided a 25-year vision for this area of science and public policy. He broadcasts widely to the general public both on radio and television and also lectures widely to the scientific and medical communities.