| About
the Director
Dr. Bruce Svare grew up
in Milford, New Hampshire and Gardner, Massachusetts where his love
for sports was nurtured by his father and friends. Like many New
England youngsters at the time, he played basketball, football and
baseball and learned to love the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and New
York Giants. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology
from Susquehanna University, his Masters degree in Psychology from
Bucknell University and his Doctorate in Biopsychology from Rutgers
University. After receiving his Ph.D., he completed a National Institute
of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the Worcester Foundation for
Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He currently
is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York
(SUNY) at Albany where he teaches and conducts research in the graduate
and undergraduate behavioral neuroscience program.
He has specialized in the study of hormonal effects on behavior
and most recently has been developing models for assessing the addiction
potential of performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids.
His research has been supported by the National Insitute of Drug
Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the
National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Harry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and
the American Psychological Society, he also holds membership in
the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology,
the Association for the Advancement of Sport Psychology, the North
American Society for the Sociology of Sport, the International Society
of Sport Psychology, and the Drake Group—The National Alliance
for College Athletic Reform. He has authored over 70 scientific
papers in such top tier scholarly journals as Nature, Psychoneuroendocrinology,
Behavioral Neuroscience, Hormones and Behavior, Developmental Psychobiology,
Biology of Reproduction, Physiology and Behavior, Behavioral and
Neural Biology, and Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. He has
also authored a number of book chapters and edited books including
the frequently cited volume, Hormones and Aggressive Behavior.
The author has been actively involved in many different sports
organizations over the last 25 years and is the founder and current
director of the National Institute for Sports Reform (NISR). He
was the founder and past president of the Bethlehem Basketball Club,
the founder and current president of the Capital District Youth
Basketball League, the founder and past president of the Albany
City Rocks AAU basketball club, and the past basketball chair of
the Adirondack region of the AAU. He has coached basketball from
the youth to the elite amateur level and has also coached Little
League and Babe Ruth baseball, Pop Warner Football, and youth soccer.
In recognition of his service to youth sports, he was named citizen
of the year in 1991 in his community of Bethlehem, New York where
he resides with his wife Maryalice and his two sons, John and Mark.
Crisis on Our Playing Fields: What
Everyone Should Know About Our Out of Control Sports Culture and
What We Can Do to Change it, and Reforming
Sports Before the Clock Runs Out: One Man's Journey Through Our
Runaway Sports Culture (Sports Reform Press) are the first books
he has authored for a general audience.
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