Kenneth Alper

Kenneth Alper is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, where he completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship. Dr. Alper has investigated ibogaine and its structural derivatives from the methodological perspectives of medical ethnography, forensic and cardiovascular toxicology, and experimental pharmacology. Dr. Alper’s principal mentor in the field is Dr. Stanley Glick, with whom he coauthored and edited the only English language text on ibogaine, and they are presently the two most frequently cited authors in the field.