Mark S., M.D. Gold

Mark S. Gold, M.D.

Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar

Distinguished Professor & Chair

Dr. Gold is the Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry. Prior to assuming the position as Chair he was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, and Community Health & Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is also a member of the McKnight Brain Institute. Dr Gold is a teacher of the year, 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. Dr. Gold has developed new treatments for addicts and also conceptualized hypotheses which were more than novel but also yielded new approaches to treat alcoholic, drug addicted and food addict patients.

Prior to assuming his role as Chair, Dr. Gold was the first Chief of the University of Florida College of Medicine's Division of Addiction Medicine . Under his leadership, the Division of Addiction Medicine at the University of Florida has grown from Dr. Gold in 1990 to 12 full-time clinical physicians treating drug abuse and dependence at the University of Florida's Recovery Center and an equal number of researchers with major funded projects and research groups (primarily at the McKnight Brain Institute )in second hand exposure models, self-administration, functional brain imaging, public health & prevention, impaired professionals, genomics, proteomics, and nanotechnology.