From Roots to Fruits Panel
About this Event
As psychedelic medicine continues to develop, its future will depend on more than promising compounds or clinical trials. It will require a workforce prepared to address the scientific, clinical, ethical, and practical challenges involved in bringing emerging therapies into responsible use.
Designed with students and early-career professionals in mind, the conversation will also explore how existing disciplines, from medicine and behavioral health to research, ethics, public health, and healthcare administration, can contribute to the developing psychedelic workforce and help shape what comes next.
About the Panelists
Manoj Doss, DO
Dr. Manoj Doss is a board-certified physician, addiction medicine specialist, and founder of the Institute for Integrative Therapies (IIT), Minnesota’s first psychedelic medicine clinic. He is nationally recognized for pioneering an evidence-based, medically grounded approach to psychedelic therapies and for treating more patients using a facilitation model than any physician in the state.
With a multidisciplinary background spanning medicine, public health, spatial analytics, and clinical research, Dr. Doss integrates rigorous scientific practice with compassionate, person-centered care. His clinical expertise includes psychedelic, longevity, and addiction medicine.
He is also the creator of IIT’s clinical research internship program for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation (PPI) Master’s Program, providing graduate students with hands-on training, mentorship, and an immersive pathway into psychedelic research careers.
Logan Nietzke-Spruill, PhD
Logan Neitzke-Spruill is a post-doctoral associate in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. His work addresses the construction of scientific and medical knowledge about drugs and mental health, the ethical issues associated with psychedelic-assisted therapy, and the social forces shaping individual drug experiences and mental health. His dissertation, “Psychedelic Biomedicalization: Mainstreaming a ‘Scientific Revolution’”, investigates the emergence of psychedelic science and examines how this movement has been influenced by processes of biomedicalization. He has published widely in venues spanning sociology, bioethics, and medicine, including JAMA Network Open, The American Journal of Bioethics, Neuroethics, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Sociological Forum, Journal for Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and Journal of Humanistic Psychology, among others.
Logan Davidson
Logan Davidson is a political and public affairs strategist working to advance access to psychedelic-assisted therapy. As Director of Policy and Advocacy at Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) and Senior Advisor at Texans for Greater Mental Health (T4GMH), he leads a national legislative strategy spanning 29+ states. This work has helped secure more than $110 million in public research funding nationwide.
Davidson's entry into psychedelic policy began with Texas HB 1802 in 2021, the first psychedelic research legislation in the nation, while serving as Legislative Director and Chief of Staff for Representative Alex Dominguez. He shepherded the state's historic psychedelic medicine law to passage and implementation. That effort was part of nearly a decade of Texas statehouse experience across multiple House members' offices, during which he steered 15 bills into law and secured significant appropriations. He has since built on that foundation nationally, helping deliver key wins across the United States.
Davidson serves on the advisory boards of Carolinas For Care, the Grunt Style Foundation, and the Clarity Project, and is a director of the Texas Lyceum and a member of Stewards of the Wild. A member of a military family, he is driven by a commitment to ending the veteran suicide epidemic. He holds a BA in Public Relations and Political Science from Texas Tech University and an MBA from the University of North Texas. He splits his time between Austin, Texas and Durham, North Carolina.
Moderator
Dr. Scott Walters
Dr. Scott Walters is Regents Professor of Public Health and Director of the PhD Program in Public Health Sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. His research focuses on developing, evaluating, and implementing interventions for alcohol and drug use, mental health, interpersonal violence, cancer prevention, and other public health challenges. From 2020 to 2025, he served as Steering Committee Chair for the HEALing Communities Study, the largest implementation science study ever conducted in addiction science, spanning 67 communities across four states. He has led multiple NIH-funded studies and authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.
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