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The Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) (formerly the Research Society on Alcoholism) is a learned society of over 1600 active members based in Austin, Texas. Its objective is to advance research on alcohol use disorders (alcoholism) and the physiological and cognitive effects of alcohol. The RSA holds an annual meeting and, together with the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, sponsors the publication of Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, published by Wiley-Blackwell.
RSA holds yearly elections for Vice President, Secretary and five Board Member positions.
Current and Past Presidents
| Michael Miles | 2021 - 2022 |
| Patricia E Molina | 2020 - 2021 |
| Robert Swift | 2019 - 2020 |
| Mary Larimer | 2018 - 2019 |
| Cristine Czachowski | 2017 - 2018 |
| Kenneth Sher | 2016 - 2017 |
| Rueben Gonzales | 2015 - 2016 |
| Tamara Phillips | 2014 - 2015 |
| Laura Nagy | 2013 - 2014 |
| Barbara McCrady | 2012 - 2013 |
| Mark Goldman | 2011 - 2012 |
| Robert Messing | 2010 - 2011 |
| Sara Jo Nixon | 2009 - 2010 |
| Peter Monti | 2008 – 2009 |
| Raymond Anton | 2007 - 2008 |
| Kathleen Grant | 2006 – 2007 |
| Michael Charness | 2005 - 2006 |
| Victor Hesselbrock | 2003 - 2005 |
| Stephanie O’Malley | 2001 – 2003 |
| Yedi Israel | 1999 - 2001 |
| Edward Riley | 1997 - 1999 |
| Ivan Diamond | 1995 - 1997 |
| R. Adron Harris | 1993 - 1995 |
| Floyd Bloom | 1991 - 1993 |
| David Van Thiel | 1989 - 1991 |
| Henri Begleiter | 1987 – 1989 |
| Ting Kai Li | 1985 – 1987 |
| Boris Tabakoff | 1983 – 1985 |
| Richard Deitrich | 1981 – 1983 |
| Dora Goldstein | 1979 – 1981 |
| Charles Lieber | 1977 - 1979 |