About URIContact UsEvents CalendarNewsTrusteesDonationsMessage from
our PresidentEmploymentInquiries

2008 Annual Report

Leadership

Board Of Trustees

Bridgite McCray, Chairperson
Rev. Leonard Jarvis, Secretary
Whittaker Mack, III
Horace L. Morancie
Carmen Smith
Vivian Bright

Executive Staff

BENY J. PRIMM, MD
President

LAWRENCE S. BROWN, JR., MD, MPH
Executive Senior Vice President
Division of Medical Services, Evaluation and Research

EDDIE LIGHTSEY, MBA
Senior Vice President
Division of Finance

ROBERT E. SAGE, PhD
Senior Vice President
Division of Human Services

DEBORAH A. WRIGHT, M.ED
Senior Vice President
Division of Resource and Corporate Administration

ARTC founder Dr. Beny J. Primm has served as its executive. Dr. Beny J. Primm M.D.director for more than 30 years, and as president of URI since its creation in 1980. An expert in the field of substance abuse treatment, Dr. Primm received his medical degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has been widely published in numerous medical journals and textbooks.

Selected by four U.S. presidents to serve as consultant on a variety of substance abuse and public health issues, he was appointed to the Commission on AIDS by President Ronald Regan, selected as the first director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the US Department of health and Human Services by President George Bush, and named U.S. representative on issues of drug addiction and AIDS to the World Health Organization in Geneva.