Dr. Mark S. Gold is Chairman of RiverMend Health’s Scientific Advisory Board for Eating Disorders and Obesity which brings together many of the United States’ leading subject matter experts in the field. Representing a diversity of clinical expertise and backgrounds, including academic, government, non-profit, for profit, and corporate, RiverMend Health’s Scientific Advisory Board is working together to improve and expand the treatment, research and education of eating disorders and obesity.
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 Eating Disorders and Obesity are as follows:
Mark S. Gold, M.D.
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board
Distinguished Professor and Former Chairman, University of Florida Department of Psychiatry
Louis Aronne, M.D., FACP
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Nicole Avena, Ph.D.
Research Faculty, Obesity Research Center / Columbia University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board – Eating Disorders & Obesity
David Baron, D.O., M.Ed.
Professor, University of Southern California & Director of USC Sports Medicine
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Timothy Brewerton, M.D.
Executive Medical Director, Hearth Center for Healing
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Dena Cabrera, Psy.D.
Clinical Director, Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Ashley Gearhardt
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Mark George, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Sherri Hunt, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Nutrilite
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Richard Johnson, M.D.
Tomas Berl Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado
Chief Renal Division and Hypertension, University of Colorado
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Walter Kaye, M.D.
Director, Eating Disorders Program & Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Eliza Kingsford M.A., LPC
Executive Director, Wellspring Camps
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Daniel Kirschenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Samuel Klein, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Robert Lustig, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology, Member at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
CEO, Treatment Research Institute
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
J. Patrick O’Leary, M.D.
Executive Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Planning, Florida International University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D.
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences, UC Irvine
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Andres Pumariega, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Cooper Medical School, Rowan University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
David Rubinow, M.D.
Chairman and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UNC Chapel Hill
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Richard Shriner, M.D.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, Neurobiology and Child Study, Yale University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Sean Slovenski
CEO, Intel-GE Care Innovations
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D. of Yale University and Dr. Mark Gold
Eric Stice Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Oregon Research Institute
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Panayotis Thanos, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Stony Brooke University
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Gene-Jack Wang, M.D.
Senior Medical Staff Clinician, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and The Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
Douglas Ziedonis, M.D., M.P.H
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board
