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Dr. Kosten, M.D. is Jay H. Waggoner chair and professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and a former professor and chief of psychiatry at Yale University and Veterans Affairs (VA), Connecticut. He is Research Director of the VA national Substance Use Disorders Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) based at the Houston VA. He also is founder of the Division of Substance Abuse at Baylor and Yale and directs their National Institutes of Health Medications Development Center for substance abuse.
He has been supported by a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Health since 1987 and has served on national and international review groups for medications development in substance abuse. He has been a Congressional fellow in the House of Representatives and a visiting professor in Germany, Spain, Greece, China and Canada.
From his studies in substance dependence, post traumatic stress disorder, and neuro-imaging he has published over 450 papers, books and reviews. His neuro-imaging research includes detecting and treating cocaine induced cerebral perfusion defects and using functional MRI to predict pharmacotherapy outcome. His medication contributions include a cocaine vaccine, immunotherapy for hallucinogens, buprenorphine for opioid dependence, disulfiram for cocaine dependence, vasodilators for cocaine induced cerebral perfusion defects and combining medications with contingency management for opioid and cocaine dependence. | 