Editing Rick Strassman (section)

==Life and education==
Strassman was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 8, 1952, to a [[Conservative Jewish]] family.<ref name="Dr. Rick Strassman">[https://www.wasiwaska.org/rick-strassman-2/ Dr. Rick Strassman] Wasiwaska</ref><ref name="Interview: Dr. Rick Strassman">[https://boingboing.net/2011/05/03/strassman.html Interview: Dr. Rick Strassman]  / AVI SOLOMON / 6:39 AM TUE MAY 3, 2011</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lattin |first1=Don |title=GOD ON PSYCHEDELICS |url=https://rebooting.com/article/god-on-psychedelics/#:~:text=Psychedelic%20researcher%20Rick%20Strassman%20was%20raised%20Jewish |website=Rebooting.com |publisher=Reboot |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> He graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys in 1969. He studied zoology at [[Pomona College]] in Claremont for two years before transferring to [[Stanford University]], where he graduated with departmental honors in biological sciences in 1973. He continued laboratory research at Stanford before attending [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]] of [[Yeshiva University]] in New York, where he graduated with an [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] with departmental honors, specializing in psychiatry. He began his general psychiatry residency at the [[University of California, Davis]], where he received the Sandoz Award for outstanding graduating resident in 1981. From 1982 to 1983, he trained as a fellow in clinical psychopharmacology research at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. He then served on the clinical faculty in the psychiatry department at UC Davis Medical Center, before becoming an assistant professor in the psychiatry department at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque in 1984. At UNM, Strassman researched the function of the [[pineal gland]]. His research group documented the first known role of melatonin in humans. He became clinical associate professor of psychiatry in 1991. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on [[psychopharmacology]], [[neurology]], [[psychiatry]], [[neuroendocrinology]] and [[neuropsychopharmacology]].