 Bertha K. Madras, PhD
Deputy Director of Demand Reduction
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Dr. Bertha Madras currently serves as the Deputy Director of Demand Reduction in the
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Prior to joining ONDCP, Dr. Madras
was Professor of Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School and
chaired the Division of Neurochemistry at the New England Primate Research Center and
served as Associate Director for Public Education in the Division on Addictions at
Harvard Medical School. She also directed a systematic course on substance abuse offered
to 4th year Harvard Medical School students.
Her research focused on basic functions of
the brain and how it responds to therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse. She pioneered in
developing new imaging agents to view drug targets in the brain, and candidate
medications to treat addiction and neuropsychiatric disorders. She is a prolific author,
inventor and the recipient of a NIDA MERIT award and a Public Service Award. To promote
prevention, she directed the production of a museum exhibit "Changing your Mind: Drugs
in the Brain" (exhibit, CD-ROM and play) at the Museum of Science (Boston) and has
presented numerous prevention lectures in the United States and around the world.
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