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Jeffrey Gold, PharmD, BCPP

Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
VA / University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Colorado, United States

Dr. Jeffrey Gold, PharmD, BCPP, is a Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner and
Psychopharmacologist with over 15 years of academic and clinical practice experience. His primary
practice site is the Rocky Mountain Regional Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Colorado. He is a Senior
Instructor for the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and School of Pharmacy. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy
Specialist.

Dr. Gold founded the Post-Graduate Year-Two Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Rocky
Mountain Regional Veteran Affairs Medical Center and served as program director for ten years. He
represents psychiatry as an advisory board member for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
and is the past president of the former Colorado Psychiatric Pharmacy Association (CPPA). He was the
first pharmacist in the state of Colorado to be granted a scope of practice to prescribe psychiatric
medications and is licensed by the DEA to prescribe/manage controlled substances.

Dr. Gold is a direct care provider, consultant, and educator with an overall focus on providing clinical
services to patients and instruction to healthcare trainees. He believes that psychotropic medications
are started, adjusted, and stopped in the context of a relationship, and that is where the clinical work
begins. Beyond this role, Dr. Gold serves the state of Colorado through active involvement in
community-based program development and event planning around mental health and wellness,
working in conjunction with various non-profit organizations, public school districts, and legal counsel.
His areas of interest include trauma, psychotropic medication deprescribing, benzodiazepines,
substance abuse, LGBTQ mental health, and the psychodynamic aspects of prescribing psychotropic
medication.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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