Dr. Joseph Palamar is an Associate Professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Health and Deputy Director of the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS). He has authored over 200 papers focusing on the epidemiology of drug use with a particular focus on new psychoactive substances and on “club drugs” such as ketamine. He has authored dozens of papers focused on ketamine with a particular focus on trends in recreational use, poisonings involving ketamine, and law enforcement seizures of ketamine. He has received funding for five research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse including a new grant that funds him to investigate the rapidly changing ketamine landscape in the United States.