User:Kylaryan/Mark S. Gold

Mark S. Gold is the University of Florida Distinguished Alumni Professor for 2011-2013. He is a Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar and distinguished professor and the current Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Florida. Dr. Gold is a researcher and inventor who has worked for nearly 40 years to develop models for understanding the effects of tobacco, cocaine, and other drugs on the brain and behavior. He created the Division of Addiction Medicine at UF and its treatment program, the Florida Recovery Center.

Dr. Gold is currently working on a report about opium exposure in Kabul for the U.S. State Department. He has worked with a variety of government agencies concerned with drug use and youth. Among those organizations are the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol, the National Institutes of Health, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Along with drug addiction studies, Dr. Gold has also been a leader in in the hypothesis of overating or pathological attachment to food as an addiction. Dr. Gold ia a co-editor of the 2010 food addiction textbook publihed by Oxford Press. He is also the a

Education

 * Washington University in St. Louis
 * Medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine
 * Residency and fellowship at Yale University College of Medicine