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.▪