Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with Wallace Pickworth

Abstract

Wallace Pickworth, Ph.D., as Research Leader directs clinical research on tobacco and nicotine at Battelle Memorial Institute’s Public Health Center for Tobacco. Over a career of more than 30 years—including nearly 30 years with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)—he has made numerous contributions to the field of drug addiction and tobacco dependence, and is a recognized expert in the measurement of smoking topography, toxicant exposure, and the physiologic and psychological effects of nicotine/tobacco exposure. He has acted as Principal Investigator on numerous studies for academic and health care institutions, private industry, and national and international scientific and regulatory agencies, and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and technical reports. Wallace serves as an adjunct faculty at two colleges of pharmacy and is on the presidential advisory council at the Albany College of Pharmacy. He was trained in both pharmacology and pharmacy, worked as a Staff Fellow in neuropharmacology at the Addiction Research Center (ARC) when it was at the U.S. Public Health Service Narcotics Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. His later work focused on tobacco and nicotine dependence and withdrawal, including the development of EEG measures to study these phenomena, genetic bases that underlie them, and harm reduction in smoking. Sources: Transcript. Public Health Center for Tobacco, Battelle Memorial Institute. https://www.battelle.org/government-offerings/health/public-health/battelle-public-health-center-for-substance-use-research/tobacco-research/tobacco-research-staff/wallace-pickworth Accessed 27 Oct 2021. Friends Research Institute. https://friendsresearch.org/people/wallace-b-pickworth/ Accessed 04 Feb 2023.