Background
Volkow, Nora Dolores was born on March 27, 1956 in Mexico City.
federal agency administrator medical researcher
Volkow, Nora Dolores was born on March 27, 1956 in Mexico City.
Bachelor, Modern American School, Mexico City, 1974. Doctor of Medicine, National University Mexico, 1980.
Research assistant Registro Nacional de Anatomia Patologica, Mexico City, 1975-1976, Miles Laboratory Experimental Therapeutics, Mexico City, 1977-1978. Intern St. Anne Psychiatric Hospital, Paris, 1979-1980. Resident department psychiatry New York University, 1981—1984.
Assistant professor University Texas Medical School, Houston, 1984-1987. Attending physician psychiatric unit Herman Hospital, 1985-1987. Associate scientist department medicine Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1987-1989, associate chief of staff, Clinical Research Center, 1990, director nuclear medicine division, 1994—2003, dir, National Institute on Drug Abuse/Department of Energy Imaging Center, 1997—2003, associate director life science, 1999—2003.
Associate professor department psychiatry State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1991—2003, associate dean, School Medical, 1997—2003. Director National Institute Drug Abuse (National Institute on Drug Abuse) National Institutes of Health, Washington, since 2003. Elected member Institute Medicine, 2000.
Member advisory committee minority training in psychiatry, Washington, since 1991. Member study section clinical Neuroscience National Institutes of Health, Washington, since 1992.
Married Steven Adler.