Dr. Jack M Gorman MD

Jack M. Gorman MD is President and Co-Founder of Critica, a non-profit organization devoted to improving the public's acceptance of scientific consensus, counteracting misinformation about health and science, and increasing the use of scientific evidence in public policy making. After attending the University of Pennsylvania and medical school at Columbia University, he joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, where he pursued research into basic and clinical mechanisms of fear and anxiety. He later became chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is author or co-author of more than 300 papers in refereed journals and was continuously funded for his research by the National Institutes of Health from 1981 through 2006. Dr. Gorman is author of the books "Denying To The Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us" and "Neuroscience At The Intersection of Mind and Brain."