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David A. Gorelick, M.D., Ph.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., F.A.S.A.M.
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. David Gorelick is part-time professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, having retired in October 2013 from the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Baltimore.
Dr. Gorelick received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1976, and did his medical internship and psychiatric residency at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). After completing training in 1980 he joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and the medical staff of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he directed inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. He joined NIDA in 1989 as a tenured physician-scientist.
His research interests are the clinical pharmacology of substance abuse, substance withdrawal, and biological treatments of substance use disorders, including medication, drug-metabolizing enzymes, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, resulting in more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Dr. Gorelick has authored or coauthored more than 50 book chapters and spoken at major national and international medical and scientific conferences. His recent work focuses on cannabis, including its potential therapeutic uses; cocaine; and individuals with comorbid psychiatric disorders.
He is board-certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, and is a distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also interested in the ethics of clinical research, serving for 10 years as chair of the NIDA Institutional Review Board and as a member of the NIH Human Subjects Research Advisory Committee and the NIH Committee on Scientific Conduct and Ethics.