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Stephen N. Xenakis, MD

Executive Director
American Psychedelic Practitioners Association
Uniformed University of Health Sciences
Hallandale Beach, Florida

Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D.
Brigadier General (Ret), U.S. Army

Dr. Xenakis is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist with many years of clinical, academic, and management experience. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1998 at the rank of brigadier general and entered an active career in start-up medical technologies and clinical practice. He has advised the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior Department of Defense officials on psychological health, the effects of blast concussion, and suicide. During his career in the Army, he pioneered the introduction of telemedicine applications including the development of a device for electronic house call services. He has an active clinical and research interest in promising medical technology. He founded of the Center for Translational Medicine to develop treatments and conducts tests on brain related conditions affecting soldiers and veterans.

Dr. Xenakis has numerous medical publications and is an Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services of Health Sciences of the military medical department. He serves on the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania since 2014 and the Advisory Boards for Physicians for Human Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture.

Dr. Xenakis is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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