- World-renowned Psychiatrist and Addiction Medicine Expert
- Distinguished Life Fellow, the American Psychiatric Association
- Distinguished Fellow, American College of Clinical Pharmacology
- Professor, Chief, Distinguished Professor, Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Alumni Professor, Chairman and Emeritus Eminent Scholar, University of Florida College of Medicine (retired)
- Professor (Adjunct), Washington University of St. Louis, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
- National Council, Washington University in St. Louis, Institute for Public Health
- Adjunct Professor at Washington University in St Louis
- Adjunct, Clinical Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
- Director of Research, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Educational Foundation working on global drug use, abuse and addiction problems and solutions
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), with Honors for Research in Neurobiology and Neurosciences, University of Florida College of Medicine
- Psychiatry, Translational Research, Yale University
- Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar
- U.F. Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Florida
- University of Florida, 17th Distinguished Alumni Professor, 2011 – 2014,
- Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, and Community Health & Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM)
- Member, McKnight Brain Institute
- Founder, UF Center for Alcohol and Drug Research and Education (CARE)
- Co-Inventor, opiate withdrawal system; pioneer in detoxing addicts
- Co-Inventor a dopamine depletion hypothesis for cocaine addiction and craving
- Pioneered the study of second hand tobacco, opium, and cannabis smoking
- Pioneered the study of food and food constituents as addicting substances
- Researcher and innovator, treatment of hedonic overeating and obesity
- Author, over 900 medical articles, chapters, and abstracts in journals for health professionals on a wide variety of psychiatric research subjects
- Author, twelve professional books including practice guidelines, ASAM core competencies, and medical text books for primary care professionals
- Author, 15 general audience books including one best seller
- First Addiction Medicine Editor, UpToDate
- Recipient, Distinguished Alumni awards: University of Florida, 1984; Washington University, 1989 and Yale University, 2008
- Founder, UF Division of Addiction Medicine
- Founder, UF’s Florida Recovery Center
- Leader and developer, UF Addiction Medicine Fellowship program and UFCOM’s 2-week mandatory addiction medicine clerkship

Dr. Mark Gold with Michael Botticelli, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

