Yasmin Hurd

Yasmin Hurd
Residence New York City
Alma mater Binghamton University, Karolinska Institutet
Scientific career
Fields Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Addiction
Institutions Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yasmin Hurd is an American professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.[1] She is the director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai. She is also the former director of the medical school's combined MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program.[2] She completed her PhD at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, where her work with microdialysis led to advances in neuropharmacology.[3] Her work has been cited more than 5,000 times, and she has an H-Index of 55.[4]

Her work on the neurobiology of addiction, especially with regard to developmental changes caused by cannabis, has been profiled in a variety of popular news sources.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Awards

In 2017, Yasmin Hurd was elected into the National Academy of Medicine.

References

  1. ↑ "Yasmin Hurd - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai". Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Yasmin L. Hurd, PhD, Named Director Of MD-PhD Program At Mount Sinai School Of Medicine".
  3. ↑ "Faces of Drug Abuse Research: Yasmin L Hurd, Ph.D." DrugMonkey. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Scopus". Scopus.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "Pot is not 'more dangerous than alcohol'? Science lacking on Obama's claim". Boston.com. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Dr. Yasmin Hurd. "Dangerous Substance" (PDF). Icahn.mssm.edu. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Cannabis Effects Visit Sons Unto the 3rd Generation". Medpagetoday.com. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Yasmin Hurd". Newyork.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Reefer madness: neurologist Professor Yasmin Hurd". sixtyminutes. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  10. ↑ BCRP - Chantal Pesant. "Perception of marijuana as a "safe drug" is scientifically inaccurate". Nouvelles.umontreal.ca. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
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