Dr. Thomas McLellan

Dr. McLellan has been a career researcher for 50 years at the Treatment Research Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. In his career he has published over 650 research articles and successfully completed over 150 NIH research grants. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American, Swedish, Italian and British Societies of Addiction Medicine. Dr. McLellan served from 2009 – 2011 as Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and a senior author of President Obama’s National Drug Control Strategy. In 2016 Dr. McLellan served as Senior Editor for the US Surgeon General’s report, Facing Addiction.