Prof Doug Sellman, MBChB PhD FRANZCP FAChAM, is a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist. He was Director of the National Addiction Centre, University of Otago Christchurch from 1996-2017, developing and running medical student and postgraduate teaching programmes in Addiction & Mental Health, and led a broad range of addiction-related research projects with over 100 peer-reviewed publications spanning alcohol, cannabis, opioids, nicotine, methamphetamine, gambling and food. In 2009 he was key in the development of Alcohol Action NZ, a medically-led advocacy group for alcohol law reform in New Zealand. His clinical work in the public sector, 1987-2014, was in adult addiction and then youth services. He retired from the University in 2022, and now runs a small private practice, featuring Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for troubled couples and individuals.