Marc N. Potenza, M.D., Ph.D.

Marc Potenza is associate professor of psychiatry and child study center at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, which he founded, and the Women and Addictions Core of Women’s Health Research, both at Yale. He received his Ph.D. degree in cell biology and an M.D. from Yale University.

Dr. Potenza has considerable expertise in interdisciplinary research, having conducted investigations in treatment evaluation, molecular and human genetics, and brain imaging. He has published extensively on pathological gambling and other addictive disorders. Dr. Potenza also was co-editor, with Jon E. Grant, of two books published by the American Psychiatric Association: Pathological Gambling: A Clinical Guide to Treatment (2004) and A Textbook of Men’s Mental Health (2006).

Dr. Potenza’s research has been funded by multiple sources including the National Institutes of Health, pharmaceutical companies, the National Center for Responsible Gaming and other foundations. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Addiction Medicine, American Journal of Addiction and Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment. Dr. Potenza is the only investigator to have received the NCRG Scientific Achievement Award in both the Young Investigator (2003) and Senior Investigator (2008) categories.