Webinar: Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids "Driving While Stoned: Why It's Complicated" by Dr. Godfrey Pearlson

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, MA, MBBS, as the featured speaker for the February YC-SCAN2 webinar, Driving While

Stoned: Why It’s Complicated. Dr. Pearlson is a physician–scientist and internationally recognized leader in neuropsychiatric and substance use

research, with extensive training at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Columbia University, and the Johns Hopkins University Department

of Psychiatry, where he ultimately served as Professor of Psychiatry and founding director of the Division of Psychiatric Neuroimaging.

Dr. Pearlson is currently the founding director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, where his work focuses on

the translational neuroscience of major mental illness and substance use, including cannabis. In this webinar, he will draw on neuroimaging and

translational research to cover the conceptual, scientific, and legal aspects of cannabis-impaired driving, examining how cannabis affects cognition

and driving performance and why variability in impairment complicates detection, regulation, and policy.