Peter R. Martin

Peter R. Martin, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is Founding Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry, the Vanderbilt Addiction Center and the Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies. Dr. Martin received his Honours B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics in 1971 and M.D., C.M. in 1975 both from McGill University and M.Sc. (Pharmacology) from the University of Toronto in 1979. He was Resident in Internal Medicine (1975-1976), Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology (1976-1978), and Resident in Psychiatry (1978-1980) all at the University of Toronto. Subsequently he was a Visiting Scientist in the Section of Experimental Therapeutics, Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health (1980-1983); Chief of the Section of Clinical Science, Laboratory of Clinical Studies at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1983-1986); and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University (1986-1992). Dr. Martin's research and scholarly interests include the molecular basis, diagnosis, and treatment of drug use disorders with an emphasis on substance-induced mental disorders. This includes investigations of the molecular biology of thiamine; magnetic resonance spectroscopy and functional magnetic resonance imaging to elucidate the pathogenesis of addiction and alcohol-induced brain damage; and the clinical pharmacology of addictive substances, including novel pharmacological treatments of addictive disorders. His research program has been funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Martin is author of Substance Abuse in the Mentally and Physically Disabled (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2001), Healing Addiction: An Integrated Pharmacopsychosocial Approach to Treatment (John Wiley and Sons, 2006), and more than 200 scientific publications. Dr. Martin is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada), Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry with Certification in the Subspecialty of Addiction Psychiatry.