!!!Helen Valerie Curran
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*2022 Emeritus Professor
* 2000 - 2022       Professor of Psychopharmacology, University College London
* 2017 - present Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia (0.2 FTE)
* 2000 - 2022     Research Lead, Drug Services, Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust 
* 1999 - 2022     Founder & Director, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit. 
* 1995 - 2022     Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust 
* 1995 – 2000    Reader in Psychopharmacology, UCL
* 1990 - 1994     Senior lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology &                                                        Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London (KCL)
* 1990 - 1994     Honorary Clinical Psychologist, Maudsley Hospital, London
* 1986 – 1990    Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, IoPPN, KCL  
* 1983 – 1986    Research Fellow, IoPPN, KCL
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, British Association of Psychopharmacology
* 2013 Memory and the Law Working Party, British Psychological Society
* 2011 Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology 
* 2010 - 2018 Scientific Advisor, The Beckley Foundation
* 2012 - present  Faculty Member, F1000
* 2009 Founder member: DRUG SCIENCE – the only independent, science-led drugs charity.  It brings together leading drugs experts from a wide range of specialisms to carry out ground breaking  research into drug harms and effects. She has sat on the Expert Scientific Committee since 2009
* 2012 - 2019     Scientific Advisor, All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform2011 - 2015      Awards for documentaries about her research (Drugs Live: Ecstasy 2011; Drugs Live: Cannabis 2015) by Channel 4 television (the cannabis one won 1st prize as Best Specialist Programme of the Year from the Association of International Broadcasters
* March 2014 1st prize, UCL Brains on Film Competition. An educational animated cartoon we made about cannabinoids which was set to hip hop music composed by 11-16 year old school children. Sent free to science departments in UK schools
* 2009 - 2014    Elected Member of Council, British Association of Psychopharmacology
* 2006 Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA)  
* 2001 Elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS); an international society of   the world’s leading memory researchers
* 1993 Winston Churchill Fellowship 
* 1979 Susan Isaacs Research Fellowship
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Curran_Helen_Valerie/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Curran_Helen_Valerie/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Curran_Helen_Valerie/Highlight]
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