Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access

Marc N. Potenza

Biography

Dr. Potenza is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training and certification in addiction psychiatry.  He has trained at Yale University receiving a combined BS/MS with Honors in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics and a PhD in Cell Biology, the latter concurrent with the MD through the Medical Scientist Training Program.  He completed internship, psychiatric residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship training at Yale.  Currently, he is a Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neurobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he is Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, and the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women′s Health Research at Yale.  He is an editorial board member of ten journals and has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in research and clinical care. He has consulted to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Registry of Effective Programs, National Institutes of Health, American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization on matters of addiction.

Research Interest

Neurobiology, Addictions and Impaired Impulse Control, Clinical and Neurobiological underpinnings of these disorders