Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with Louis Harris

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Louis S. Harris, PhD, served on the faculty of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine for 44 years, died on June 10. During his tenure, Harris helped lead the rise of the VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology into national prominence. He served as department chair for two decades and oversaw National Institutes of Health grants focused on research in drug abuse from the earliest days of his time at VCU. As a professor, Dr. Harris was a prolific researcher, publishing in high-profile scholarly journals nearly 300 times, up to his retirement from VCU in 2016, when he was named professor emeritus. For a generation, he was a leader in opioid and cannabinoid pharmacology as well as pain management, areas in which VCU continues to advance his profound national legacy. Among multiple honors presented by his peers, he won the most prestigious award given by The College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Dr. Harris died on June 10, 2019. Source: https://news.vcu.edu/article/Louis_S_Harris_longtime_School_of_Medicine_professor Accessed 12 Mar 2023.