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ISBRA President History

ISBRA’s past presidents are a diverse population of men and women from around the world who have continuously shaped ISBRA into the society it is today. The ISBRA President is the Chief Executive Officer of the Society and presides at all meetings of the members of the Society and of the Board of Directors. The President serves as Chair of an Executive Committee, comprising of the President, Senior Vice President, and Immediate Past President.

Order	Date	President	Country
1^st	1982 - 1986	Jean-Pierre von Wartburg	Switzerland
2^nd	1986 - 1990	Boris Tabakoff	USA
3^rd	1990 - 1994	Harold Kalant	Canada
4^th	1994 - 1998	Kinya Kuriyama	Japan
5^th	1998 - 2002	Philippe De Witte	Belgium
6^th	2002 - 2006	Adron Harris	USA
7^th	2006 - 2010	Toshikazu Saito	Japan
8^th	2010 - 2012	Karl Mann	Germany
9^th	2012 - 2014	Edward Riley	USA
10^th	2014 - 2016	Susumu Higuchi	Japan
11^th	2016 - 2018	Rainer Spanagel	Germany
12^th	2018 - 2020	Tamara Phillips	USA
13^th	Current	Rosana Camarini	Brazil

ISBRA Congress History

Past, Present, and Future

ISBRA hosts an international Congress every two years. Its affiliated societies also hold regular conferences. In the case of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), these are annual events. The European society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) holds biennial conferences in the years between ISBRA Congresses.

Congress	Date	Location
1^st	July 6 - 10, 1982	Munich, Germany
2^nd	June 24 - 28, 1984	Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
3^rd	June 8 - 13, 1986	Helsinki, Finland
4^th	1988	Kyoto Japan
5^th	1990	Toronto Canada
6^th	1992	Bristol, United Kingdom
7^th	1994	Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland
8^th	1996	Joint Congress ISBRA/RSA Washington, D.C., USA
9^th	June 27 - July 2, 1998	Copenhagen, Denmark
10^th	July 2 - 8, 2000	Yokohama, Japan
11^th	June 28 - July 3, 2002	Joint ISBRA/RSA Congress San Francisco, CA, USA
12^th	2004	Heidelburg, Germany
13^th	Sept. 10 - 13, 2006	Sydney, Australia
14^th	June 27 - July 2, 2008	Joint ISBRA/RSA Congress Washington, DC USA
15^th	Sept. 13 - 16, 2010	Paris, France
16^th	Sept. 9 - 12, 2012	Sapporo, Japan
17^th	June 21 - 25, 2014	JOINT ISBRA/RSA Congress in Seattle, Washington, USA
18^th	Sept. 1 - 5, 2016	Joint ISBRA/ESBRA Congress Berlin, Germany
19^th	Sept. 9 - 13, 2018	Kyoto, Japan
Upcoming	June 19-23, 2021	Joint ISBRA/RSA Congress San Antonio, TX USA