Stuart Gitlow

Stuart Gitlow (born November 29, 1962), board-certified in addiction and forensic psychiatry, is the Executive Director of the Annenberg Physician Training Program in addictive diseases.

Credentials
Stuart Gitlow, MD MPH MBA, serves as a medical expert to the Social Security Department's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review and is on the faculty of New York City's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Author of Substance Use Disorders: A Practical Guide, Dr. Gitlow is also a regular columnist for Counselor and has authored numerous chapters in textbooks of Addiction Medicine. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Addictive Diseases. Gitlow is an Aviation Medical Examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Education
A native of New York, Gitlow studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his undergraduate degree. He went on to receive his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, his Master's in public health from the University of Pittsburgh and his Master's in business administration from the University of Rhode Island. His postgraduate medical training was at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and at Harvard University.

Professional activities
Dr. Gitlow lectures extensively within the field of addictive disease, teaching in the past at:
 * Harvard University
 * Dartmouth College
 * Brown University
 * University of Utah
 * Rutgers University

Dr. Gitlow currently holds the following positions: aaaa
 * Chair, American Medical Association Action Team on Alcohol and Health
 * Chair, Public Health Committee, New York County Medical Society
 * Treasurer, American Society of Addiction Medicine
 * Delegate to the American Medical Association from the American Society of Addiction Medicine
 * Member of the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association

Online activities
While in medical school, Dr. Gitlow started LaserBoard, a BBS based in Manhattan for Macintosh users. LaserBoard eventually became Mac Symposium, a service on MacNET. This was a national proprietary online service that subsequently evolved into the now-defunct Connect Business Information Network. Dr. Gitlow then moved to America Online, eventually as Coordinator of the Macintosh division of the Computing Channel. Upon receiving funding from AOL to launch a new enterprise, he started Healant, the company that provided the Addiction & Recovery Forum, Depression Forum, Alternative Medicine Forum and the Pain Relief Forum on AOL. Healant was also responsible for building websites and online communities of numerous health information companies, including drkoop.com.