CERL Executive Board Member Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D., has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association (APPA). The organization supports the safe integration of “psychedelic-assisted therapy” into the health care system in the United States.

Brig. Gen. Xenakis is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist with many years of clinical, academic, and management experience. He is an advisor for Physicians for Human Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture. He is also an Adjust Professor at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Read his bio here.

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