Cannabis: Potential Risks and Benefits in Mental Health

Dr. Joseph McEvoy, MD is a Professor and Case Distinguished Chair in Psychotic Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Director of Public Psychiatry with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and Augusta University, and Medical Director of Serenity Behavioral Health Services. He received his medical degree and completed his psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Heather Davidson, PhD is a Neuroscience Medical Science Liaison for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc. She received her PhD in Physiology and Neuroscience from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacology and Toxicology at Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. She has 20 years of experience researching the neurobiological mechanisms of substance abuse, adolescent brain development and severe mental illness.

Nichole Neugebauer, PhD, is a Medical Science Liaison for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.