Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with Jack Henningfield

Abstract

Jack Henningfield, Ph.D., is Vice President, Research, Health Policy, and Abuse Liability at PinneyAssociates. He joined PinneyAssociates in September 1996 after 16 years of public service at the Intramural Research Program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), where he led abuse potential assessments and developed drug scheduling recommendations in frequent collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). He has served on numerous U.S. Government agency committees and international committees including more than 13 years on a World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee. At NIDA, he served as Chief of the Human Performance Laboratory (1984-1985), Chief of the Biology of Dependence and Abuse Potential Assessment Section (1985-1996), and Chief of the Clinical Pharmacology Research Branch (1989-1996) and directed the Minority Recruitment and Training Program (1990-1996). He was a frequent contributor to NIDA’s reports to Congress, Reports of the Surgeon General, and provided congressional testimonies on behalf of NIDA. Since leaving NIDA he has served as a Special Government Employee to the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (2009-2014) and Center for Tobacco Products (2010-2013). Jack has been a member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty since 1978 and is presently Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Biology at the Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and an affiliated faculty with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jack is also a former adjunct faculty member with the Program of Toxicology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Throughout his career Jack has contributed numerous comments to the FDA on topics including prescribing of opioids for chronic pain, development and regulation of abuse-deterrent opioid formulations, and regulation of nicotine delivery systems. Jack’s research has resulted in the writing of numerous books and monographs, and over 450 published papers on myriad topics in public health, pharmacology, and addiction. He has received numerous national and international awards recognizing his scientific and public health leadership efforts. Source: PinneyAssociates. https://www.pinneyassociates.com/our-people/ Accessed 07 June 2023.