Bankole A. Johnson, M.D.

2009 Solomon Carter Fuller Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Pills to Treat Alcoholism

Dr. Johnson graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1982 with a Medicinae Baccalaureum et Chirurgie Baccalaureum degree. He went on to train in psychiatry at the Royal London, Maudsley, and Bethlehem Royal Hospitals and in research at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London. In 1991, Johnson graduated from the University of London with a Master of Philosophy degree in neuropsychiatry. 

Dr. Johnson joined the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 1993 and later became the Deputy Chairman for Research and Chief of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio in 1998.

In 2004, Dr. Johnson accepted an appointment to serve as an alumni professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia. In 2007, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and in 2009, he was named associate editor of the editorial board of The American Journal of Psychiatry and the Solomon Carter Fuller Award recipient.