When: November 18, 2003
Where: NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD
Institute: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Adolf Pfefferbaum, M.D., Director, Neuroscience Program, SRI International and Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2003 Mark Keller Honorary Award and to deliver the lecture, entitled Alcohol-induced Insult to the Living Brain: Views from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The program will take place at Masur Auditorium at the NIH on November 18, 2003, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

NIAAA established the Mark Keller Honorary Lecture Series as a tribute to U.S. scientist and professor Mark Keller's contributions to alcohol research. Each year the series features a lecture by an outstanding alcohol researcher who has made significant and long-term contributions to our understanding of how alcohol affects the body and mind, how we can prevent and treat alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and how today's scientific advancements can provide hope for tomorrow. NIAAA is pleased to present this series of scholarly lectures in affirmation of the steady progress alcohol researchers are making toward achieving Mark Keller's vision for the future and in memory of this extraordinary individual.

For more than two decades, Dr. Pfefferbaum has pioneered the use of brain imaging modalities to characterize brain function and structure in alcohol abusers. This work has provided an understanding of the locus, nature, and extent of insult to the living, human brain resulting from chronic alcohol abuse. Dr. Pfefferbaum published the seminal report on the relevance of family history of alcoholism to alterations in electrophysiological waveforms, thereby identifying an objective, quantitative phenotype for the predisposition of alcoholism.

Next Steps
For details contact Nancy Colladay at (301) 443-3860 (e-mail nc38f@nih.gov) or visit the Web site at www.niaaa.nih.gov/conferences/Mark-Keller/KellerHome03.htm.

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