Dr. Igor Grant is Distinguished Professor and director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program and the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Grant served as Chair of the UCSD Department of Psychiatry from 2014-2019. He is a neuropsychiatrist who graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Medicine (1966), and received specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania (1967-1971), and additional training in neurology at the Institute of Neurology (Queen Square) (1980-1981), London, U.K. Dr. Grant’s academic interests focus on the effects of various diseases on brain and behavior, with an emphasis on translational studies in HIV, and drugs of abuse. He has contributed to approximately 800 scholarly publications and is principal investigator of several NIH studies and is co-director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC).