Ethan Russo, MD, is a board-certified neurologist, psychopharmacology researcher, and author. He is the Founder and CEO of CReDO Science (www.credo-science.com), an intellectual property holding company devoted to research and development in the cannabis and endocannabinoid system arena, and provision of formulation services.
Previously, he was Director of Research and Development of the International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute (ICCI) based in Prague, Czech Republic (2017-2019), Medical Director of PHYTECS (2015-2017), and from 2003-2014, he served as Senior Medical Advisor, medical monitor and study physician to GW Pharmaceuticals, United Kingdom for over 20 Phase I-III clinical trials of Sativex for alleviation of cancer pain unresponsive to optimized opioid treatment and initial studies of Epidiolex for intractable epilepsy.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (Psychology), and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, before residencies in Pediatrics in Phoenix, Arizona and in Child and Adult Neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was a clinical neurologist in Missoula, Montana for 20 years in a practice with a strong chronic pain component. In 1995, he pursued a 3-month sabbatical doing ethnobotanical research with the Machiguenga people in Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru.
He has held faculty appointments in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Montana, in Medicine at the University of Washington, and as visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the US Pharmacopoeia (USP) Panel on Cannabinoids.
He is a Past-President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and is former Chairman of the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the American Botanical Council. He is author of Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs, co-editor of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Potential, and author of The Last Sorcerer: Echoes of the Rainforest. He was founding editor of Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, selections of which were published as books. He has also published numerous book chapters, and over seventy articles in neurology, pain management, cannabis, and ethnobotany.
He has lectured or consulted on these topics in 42 US states, six Canadian provinces and 44 countries on six continents.
