Nomination of Frederick K. Goodwin To Be Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration

The President today announced his intention to nominate Frederick K. Goodwin to be Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services. He would succeed Donald Ian Macdonald.

Since 1982 Dr. Goodwin has been Scientific Director of the National Institute of Mental Health for the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to this he was Chief of Clinical Psychobiology for the National Institute of Mental Health, 1977-1982. He has also served as chief of the section on psychiatry in the laboratory of clinical science. Dr. Goodwin's clinical research interests have been focused on biological and psychological factors in major depressive illness and in manic-depressive illness.

Dr. Goodwin graduated from Georgetown University (B.S., 1958) and St. Louis University School of Medicine (M.D., 1963). He was born April 21, 1936, in Cincinnati, OH. He is married, has three children, and resides in Chevy Chase, MD.