Robert Millman
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Dr. Robert B. Millman is an American physician and Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is the Director of the Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment and Research Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Millman is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and book chapters and an editor of the Comprehensive Textbook of Substance Abuse. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Drug Strategies, a National Foundation engaged in the development of drug and alcohol policy and research, and an advisor to the State and Federal Governments. He is the former Medical Director for Major League Baseball, where he was an advisor on performance-enhancing supplements and steroids.
Dr. Millman graduated from Cornell and received his medical degree from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He was trained in internal medicine at the New York Hospital and Cornell Medical College and then in psychiatry at Cornell's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He began his research career at the Rockefeller University, in the laboratory of Vincent Dole.
