Dr. Arthur L. Brody is a Professor-in-Residence at the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry, Research Psychiatrist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and Research Scientist at the Veterans Medical Research Foundation. He is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his Psychiatry Residency and Research Fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been on faculty at UCLA and UC San Diego for the past 28 years and his research interests include treatment and brain imaging of people with tobacco/nicotine dependence. He is a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and Society of Biological Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association and American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.