Goodman Appointed

Wayne Goodman, M.D., chair of the University of Florida's Department of Psychiatry, has been named acting director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Adult Translational Research Division. Goodman will hold this position through June 2008.

The division's mission is to promote the integration of the vast storehouse of knowledge about the brain and mental illness into clinical knowledge that psychiatrists can use in their practices. The division was previously headed by schizophrenia researcher Wayne Fenton, M.D., who was killed by a patient in 2006.

Mark Gold, M.D., associate chair of psychiatry at the University of Florida and chief of its addiction medicine program will be acting department chair.▪