Paul Grof is a Czech-born psychiatrist in Canada who was a member of the World Health Organization committee that evaluated ecstasy.
Rick Doblin notes: Following his graduation in medicine, Paul Grof took his psychiatric training and became specialized in psychiatry in 1962.
In the fall of 1968 Dr. Grof was recruited as research psychiatrist and faculty member at McMaster University, Canada.
Dr. Grof spent 1977 and 1978 as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, initially in a clinical neuropharmacology branch with Dennis Murphy and later in the psychobiology branch with Fred Goodwin.
He has published over 350 articles and two books, and received several national and international research awards.