Dr. Mark S. Gold is Chairman of RiverMend Health’s Scientific Advisory Board for Addiction & Psychiatry which includes many of the World’s preeminent experts in the field of addiction, behavioral health, neurology, neuropsychiatry, epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology.
Together, Dr Gold and his team of world renown experts are advancing RiverMend Health’s vision of becoming the world’s leader in the treatment, research and education of addiction related diseases.
The Member of RiverMend Health’s Scientific Advisory Board for Addiction & Psychiatry are as follows:
Mark S. Gold, M.D.
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board
Distinguished Professor and Former Chairman, University of Florida Department of Psychiatry
William Alden
Former Chief, Drug Enforcement Agency Educational Foundation
Dan Angres, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, RiverMend Health – Addiction
Founder & Clinical Director, The Positive Sobriety Institute
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board for Addiction & Psychiatry
David Baron, ME.D., DO
Professor, University of Southern California & Director of USC Sports Medicine
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Kenneth Blum, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer of LifeGen, Inc.
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Lawrence S. Brown, M.D., M.P.H.
CEO, START Treatment and Recovery Centers
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Jean Lud Cadet, M.D.
Chief, Molecular Neuropsychiatry, Research Branch, NIDA
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Robert DuPont, M.D.
Founding Director, NIDA, Former Drug Czar, President, Institute for Behavior & Health Professor, Georgetown
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Paul Earley, M.D.
Medical Director, Georgia Professionals Health Program, Inc.
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Elson Haas, M.D.
Founder and Medical Director, Preventive Medical Center of Marin
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Harry Haroutunian, M.D.
Physician Director, Betty Ford Center
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
William S. Jacobs, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Georgia Detox & Recovery Centers
Medical Director, Bluff Plantation
Chief of Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Steven Jaffe, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Emory University and Morehouse Medical School
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board Summit
Bertha K. Madras, Ph.D.
Former Drug Czar; Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School Harvard University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
David M. Martin, Ph.D.
Former Executive Director DATIA
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Barbara J. Mason, PhD.
Pearson Family Professor, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Garrett O’Connor, M.D.
Formerly Professor Johns Hopkins & CEO Betty Ford Center, CFO Betty Ford Institute
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Simone Petrakis, M.D.
Professor, Yale University Department of Psychiatry
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Paul Earley, Dr. Harry Haroutunian & Dr. Mark Gold
Ronald J. Pion, M.D.
Advisor, Zoom.us, UCLA School of Medicine
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Joseph Ricci, Ph.D.
Administrative Director, Behavior Health Services, Georgia Regents University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Kenneth Sandler, M.D.
Clinical Professor, University of Pennsylvania, President and CEO Lighthouse of Mays Landing
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
David E. Smith, M.D.
Professor UCSF & Founder, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Robert Strang
CEO, Investigative Management Group
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Gene Jack Wang, M.D.
Chairman, Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Department
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Douglas Ziedonis, M.D., M.P.H
Professor and Chair, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
