Ihsan Salloum, MD, MPH

Biography

Dr. Ihsan M. Salloum is the Sujata G. Krishnan Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Founding Chair for the Department of Neuroscience, and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at UTRGV.

Dr. Salloum received a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Bologna and a Master of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. He completed his psychiatry residency training at the Chicago Medical School - Rosalind Franklin University and an NIH-sponsored Fellowship in Alcohol Research at UPMC’s Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Salloum’s research has been supported continuously by the NIH for over two decades. He served as a member of the National Institute of Health Scientific Review Group and as an Examiner of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He currently serves on the American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s Workgroup on Research Training. Dr. Salloum is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology and Addiction Psychiatry and is listed in America’s Most Honored Professionals. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA, an Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association, and serves as President of the International College of Person-centered Medicine.

Before joining the UTRGV School of Medicine, Dr. Salloum served as Chief of the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Research Division and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He also served as the Director of Research & Education, and Medical Director of the Addiction Medicine Services for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Institute for Neuroscience

• Shall be directly accountable to the Chair.

• Shall be responsible for the administration of the Institute for Neuroscience.

• Shall hold regular meetings of the Institute faculty to present pertinent information and to discuss issues that may include, among others, Institute or SOM policies, educational, research and service programs, long-range objectives, and current problems.

• Shall recruit and recommend to the Institute the appointment of faculty and other personnel.

• Shall be responsible for the Institute’s role in carrying out the programs that are the responsibility of SOM faculty.

• Shall be responsible for the implementation of all UTRGV and SOM policies and regulations applicable to the Institute.

• Shall prepare the Institute’s budget to be submitted to the ISU/Department Chair annually including recommendations for compensation of both faculty and non-faculty personnel.

• Shall be responsible for the budgetary control of his Institute in collaboration with the ISU/Department Chair.

• Shall recommend faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure to the ISU/Department Chair and pertinent UTRGV SOM committee for review and processing.

• Shall organize the Center in a way that best serves the needs of the Center and SOM and provide for appropriate interaction with the Center faculty and between its faculty and leadership.

• Shall be responsible for the career development and mentoring of faculty members in the Center.