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About the Author
At native of sg s Angeles, hee s Strassman poids coors from Suankord
University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
Dr. Strassman took his internship and general psychiatry residency at the
University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento, and received
the Sandoz Award for outstanding graduating resident in 1981. He spent ten
years as a tenured professor at the University of New Mexico, performing
clinical research investigating the function of the pineal hormone melatonin.
He also began the first new U.S.-government-approved-and-funded clinical
research with psychedelic drugs in over twenty years.
Dr. Strassman has published thirty peer-reviewed scientific papers
and serves as a reviewer for several psychiatric research journals. He
has been a consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Veterans' Administration Hospitals, Social
Security Administration, and other state and local agencies. He currently
practices psychiatry in Taos, New Mexico, and is Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry in the UNM School of Medicine. Dr. Strassman's
Web site is