Philip Gold, M.D.

Dr. Philip Gold is one of the world’s leading researchers of depressive illness. For over three decades he has worked at the National Institutes of Health, where he has served as Chief of Neurodendocrine Research and Senior Investigator in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, and Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrinology. In his recent book, Breaking Through Depression: A Guide to the Next Generation of Promising Research and Revolutionary New Treatments, he draws upon his long-term research to delve into the interplay between our anatomy and our lived experiences as the key to understanding why there are such individual differences in how we make connections with others, deal with adversity, or recover from trauma. Offering an inspiring exploration of the recent advances, Dr. Gold reveals the latest breakthroughs that can heal people struggling with depression to offer promising paths to wellness for millions.

Dr. Gold trained in psychoanalytic psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In his role at the NIH, he has studied the neurobiology of depression for decades and led a laboratory of over 30 individuals trained in neuroscience, molecular biology, endocrinology, neurology and psychiatry. He has written over 400 scientific articles that have been cited by over 65,000 publications including 16 in The New England Journal of Medicine. He has served as a member of the Library of Congress Council of Scholars, participated in the MacArthur Foundation Medical Network, received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens School of Medicine, and was chosen as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Duke University School of Medicine. An Overseas Fellow for The British Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. Gold has won many national and international awards including the Curt Richter Prize (Vienna, Austria), The Fish Memorial Prize and Lecture (Brown University School of Medicine), The Alan Walters Memorial Prize (University of Toronto School of Medicine), and The Heinz Lehman Memorial Lecture, Keynote Speaker, Research Day (McGill University School of Medicine.) Dr. Gold also received The American Psychiatric Association highest honor, The Foundation Fund Prize for Research, and has delivered honorary lectures at Harvard University and the Japan Foundation.

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