Professor Adrian Dunlop is Director and Senior Staff Specialist for Drug & Alcohol Clinical Services, Hunter New England Local Health District and Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle.
Adrian is the current Chair of the NSW Drug and Alcohol Clinical Research Network, a collaboration of NSW public sector drug and alcohol engaged in clinical treatment and research.
He is also President of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine, a consultant to the Drug & Alcohol Specialist Advisory Service (DASAS), St Vincent’s Local Health Network and was the Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist, NSW Health (2014-2018).
He is a Past-President of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) 2009-2011, current member of the College of Problems on Drug Dependence (USA), American Society of Addiction Medicine (USA), Society for the Study of Addiction (UK), European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association and Fellow of the International Society for Addiction Medicine (FISAM) and the International Doctors for Healthy Drug Policies.
He has over 30 years-experience in the drug and alcohol field, over 400 publications including over 187 peer-reviewed journal articles, 9 book chapters, and is a co-author on 9 Australian guidelines on drug and alcohol treatment management, including Long-acting injectable buprenorphine (LAIB) for opioid dependence treatment: Practice Guide (2nd Ed) funded by NSW Health.
He collaborates with various drug and alcohol clinical research groups and clinical sites state across NSW and Australia.