Dr. Lester is a professor of both psychiatry and of pediatrics at the Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, and director of the Infant Development Center, Women and Children's Hospital, Providence. He also maintains active international research collaborations in India, Israel, Brazil, and Argentina. What We Know and What We Don't Know. One of 14 federally-funded centers sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the PRC is the only center specializing in prevention. He was chosen by a board of distinguished international scientists as the 1995 recipient of the H. M. Jellinek Memorial Award, for his research on social and economic factors of alcohol consumption and the impact of changes in alcohol availability on alcohol problems.
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