Background
Freedman, Daniel X. was born on August 17, 1921 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Son of Harry and Sophia (Feinstein) Freedman.
Freedman, Daniel X. was born on August 17, 1921 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Son of Harry and Sophia (Feinstein) Freedman.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1951. Graduate, Western New England Institute Psychoanalysis, 1966.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Wabash College, 1974. Honorary Doctor of Science, Indiana University, 1982. Distinguished Service Cross (honorary), Wabash College, 1974.
Distinguished Service Cross (honorary), Indiana University, 1982.
Intern pediatrics, Yale Hospital, 1951-1952;
resident psychiatry, Yale Hospital, 1952-1955;
from instructor to professor psychiatry, Yale University, 1955-1966;
department chairman, University of Chicago, 1966-1983;
Louis Block professor biological science, University of Chicago, 1969-1983;
Judson Braun professor psychiatry and pharmacology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1983-1993;
acting chair psychiatry and director NPI, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989-1991. Career investigator United States Public Health Service, 1957-1966. Director psychiatry and biological science training program Yale University, 1960-1966.
Consultant National Institute of Mental Health, 1960-1993, United States Army Chemical Center, Edgewood, Maryland., 1965-1966. Chairman panel psychiatric drug efficacy study NAS-National Research Council, 1966. Member of advisory committee Food and Drug Administration, 1967-1978.
Representative to division medical scis.NRC, 1971-1982, member NAS commission on brain science, 1971-1974, member commission on problems of drug dependence, 1971-1983. Member committee problems drug dependence National Research Council-NAS, 1971-1976, chairman CPDD, Inc. 1977-1978, NAS-IOM; committee substanceabuse, and habitual behavior, 1976-1984.
Advisor President's biomedical Research Panel, 1975-1976. Member selection committee, coordinator research task panel President's Commission Mental Health, 1977-1978. Member Joint Commission Prescription Drug Use, Inc., 1977-1980.
Board directors Science Counselors National Institute of Mental Health, 1982-1993, chair from 1984. Board directors Science Counselors NIDa Addiction Research Center, chair 1989-1993.
Board directors Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1969-1972, Drug Abuse Council, 1972-1980. Vice chairman Drug Abuse Council Illinois, 1972-1982. Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946.
Fellow American College Neuropsychopharmacology (president 1970-1971). Member National Institute of Mental Health (board science counselors, chair 1984-1986), Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Illinois Psychiatric Society (president 1971-1972), Social Science Research Council (director 1968-1974), Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Chairmen Departments Psychiatry (president 1972-1973), Council Academy Societies, Association American Medical Colleges (administrative board 1975-1981, chairman 1980-1981, distinguished service member 1980-1993), American Psychiatric Association (chairman committee drug abuse, 1971-1978, vice president 1975-1977, president-elect 1980-1981, president 1981-1982), Group Advancement Psychiatry, Psychiatric Research Society, American Psychosomatic Society (councillor 1970-1973), Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (president 1974), Society Biological Psychiatry (president 1985-1986), National Institute on Drug Abuse Addiction Research Center (board science counsellors, chair 1989-1993), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Son of Harry and Sophia (Feinstein) F. M. Mary C. Neidigh, March 20, 1945.