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Professor
University of Utah
University of Utah School of Medicine
Dr. Gordon is the Elbert F. and Marie Christensen Endowed Research Professor and Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Section Chief of Addiction Medicine at the Salt Lake City VA Health Care System. Prior to his current appointment, he was a Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Sciences and Advisory Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He is a board certified internal medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine) and addiction medicine physician (American Board of Preventive Medicine) and he has achieved status as a Fellow in the American College of Physicians (FACP) and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM). Since 1998, he is VA Health Services Research and Implementation Scientist since 1998. He is a core faculty of the Salt Lake City Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center (IDEAS2). He has a 20-year track record of conducting research on the quality, equity, and efficiency of health care for vulnerable populations, having received efforts on grants from the NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, VA, SAMHSA and Foundations. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed articles and presented or published hundreds of scholarly work in the area of addictions and vulnerable populations. A major theme of his research include examining the efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation of evidence-based identification, assessment, and treatments for patients with addiction disorders. He is the Director of both the VA’s Medication Addiction Treatment in the VA (MAT-VA) and the National Coordinating Center for the VA’s Interdisciplinary Advanced Fellowship in Addiction Treatment. He is the Director of the Program for Addiction Research, Clinical Care, Knowledge, and Advocay (PARCKA). He is a practicing clinician and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Substance Abuse.
