He continues to serve as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins and is associated with their Department of Mental Health.
[1] His college-level education in liberal arts and sciences started in 1967 at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1971.
He then received a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellowship award to study psychopathology, psychiatric epidemiology and biostatistics with Professors Ernest M. Gruenberg and Morton Kramer at Johns Hopkins.
In 2006 he was appointed as 'Professor Honorario' at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru in recognition of his leadershiop of the NIH-funded JHU-MSU-UPCH collaborations in epidemiology research training with a focus on hazards of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, and related psychiatric conditions such as the mood disturbances.
A more complete curriculum vitae and summary of his discoveries, accomplishments, honors, and awards can be found in the External Links section.