# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-strassman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:04.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-strassman"
name: "Rick Strassman"
slug: "rick-strassman"
description: "Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the United States to undertake human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances with his research on dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT. He is also the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, which summarizes his academic research into DMT and other experimental studies of it, and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research."
tagline: "American drug researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Strassman_(academic).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             19.85741904301595
  historical:           8.643997333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4530
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Rick-Strassman-1624669074491201"
    handle:    "Rick-Strassman-1624669074491201"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2837150/"
    handle:    "nm2837150"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.rickstrassman.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Dt3VgB--vP3zvlSskhNgw"
    handle:    "@rickstrassman"
    followers: 4530
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريك ستراسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريك ستراسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Strassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Strassman"
    title: "Rick Strassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Strassman"
    title: "Rick Strassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Strassman"
    title: "Rick Strassman"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Strassman"
    title: "Rick Strassman"
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    title: "Rick Strassman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Rick Strassman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump