National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) Names Samuel A. Ball As President And CEO

Circle Connections: New Talent Samuel A. Ball, professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, has been named president and chief executive of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia). Ball will oversee an expanded effort by the center to study all addictions and addictive behaviors including obesity and eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and sexual addictions, as well as nicotine, alcohol, and illegal and prescription drugs. A nationally known expert on addiction, Ball serves as assistant chair and director of faculty development programs for Yale's Department of Psychiatry. He is also the research . . .