Everett Hews Ellinwood Jr., 1934–2008

Abstract

Presents an obituary of Everett Hews Ellinwood Jr. (1934–2008). Everett Ellinwood, 73, died suddenly on January 8, 2008. He was a Fellow and past Councilor of ACNP, having been elected to the College in 1976. Everett graduated with an MD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959, and he completed his psychiatry residency at Carolina in 1963. During that time Everett published two early research papers. He then served in the US Public Health Service from 1963 to 1965 as Chief of the Addiction Service for the military. This experience led to the field of addiction becoming his lifelong focus. Ever a curious and divergent thinker, Everett maintained an astonishing range of scientific interests. He studied the phenomenology and mechanisms of stimulant drug abuse and psychosis, and the neuropsychopharmacology of arousal, cognition and psychomotor performance. He pioneered pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic studies of drug effects on cognitive and neuromotor function. He also pioneered the interactive use of computers in cognitive neuromotor assessments. Integrating his clinical practice and basic research, Everett was a pioneer of ‘translational medicine.’ In addition to his research programs, Everett was always available to counsel and treat colleagues struggling with addictive disorders. Everett and his devoted partner, Cackie Joyner, loved life and the life of science, and they will be sorely missed around ACNP annual meetings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)