Psych Congress Steering Committee Member; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee; Medical Director of Psychiatry, Pain Management Group, Trust Point Psychiatric Hospital, St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital; Medical Director and Principal, Draud Sudbury Psychiatric Solutions; Private Practice, Adult and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nashville, Tennessee

Jon W. Draud received his MS in pharmacology and his MD at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Dr. Draud postgraduate medical education took place at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where he completed a residency in psychiatry. A diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Draud is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is active in teaching medical students and residents, and he has delivered more than 3,500 professional lectures to medical personnel.

Dr. Draud serves on numerous advisory boards, is an active national-level speaker for several companies, and is involved in neurobiological initiatives related to psychiatric illness. Dr. Draud has been involved in designing and implementing several neurobiology projects, including the disease states of depression, bipolar disorder, insomnia, and pain, with an emphasis on fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain. Most recently, he was appointed by the MJ Consulting Group to its Neuroscience Advisory Council and is one of the four founding members of the Integrative Neurobiology Educational Institute, which is a nationally based think tank aimed at raising public awareness about the neurobiological underpinnings common among many psychiatric disease states.