Paul R. McHugh is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He was for 26 years the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the founder and first director of the Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital, Westchester Division at Cornell, as well as the leader of the Blades Center for Clinical Practice and Research in Alcohol/Drug Dependence; the co-chairman of the ethics committee of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology; the chairman of the NIH Bio-Psychology Study Section; and a trustee of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. His research focuses on the neuroscientific foundations of motivated behaviors, psychiatric genetics, epidemiology, and neuropsychiatry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and from 2002-2009 served on the President’s Council on Bioethics.
November 2025
Paul R. McHugh is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He was for 26 years the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the founder and first director of the Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital, Westchester Division at Cornell, as well as the leader of the Blades Center for Clinical Practice and Research in Alcohol/Drug Dependence; the co-chairman of the ethics committee of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology; the chairman of the NIH Bio-Psychology Study Section; and a trustee of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. His research focuses on the neuroscientific foundations of motivated behaviors, psychiatric genetics, epidemiology, and neuropsychiatry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and from 2002-2009 served on the President’s Council on Bioethics.
November 2025