Harold W. Goforth, M.D.                    

Address:           Box 3903, Duke University Medical Center , Durham , NC 27710
Email:               harold.goforth@duke.edu
Telephone:        (919) 684-8788     FAX (919) 681-8744     Date of Birth:  1970

Current Position: Dr. Goforth is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center, and Co-Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  Dr. Goforth is an attending psychiatrist at Duke in the Neurological Disorders Clinic, ECT, and Sleep programs, and serves as the primary consult-liaison psychiatrist to the HIV Clinic at Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in addition to his general CL responsibilities. 

Education:  He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in Political Science and Health Care Policy, and his medical degree at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, where he was elected in his fourth year to Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.  Dr. Goforth completed his psychiatry training at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, IL and completed a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in 2005. 

Dr. Goforth has strong clinical and research interests in consultation-liaison psychiatry, where he pursues research in mood and sleep disorders in fragile, medically ill populations.   His current research includes clinical trials of mood disorders, insomnia and immune function in HIV and other infectious disease populations. 

Dr. Goforth has published over 20 original articles and book chapters, and he has presented his work at major national and international scientific meetings.  Topics have included HIV,  depression occurring in the context of medical illness, and the relationships between immune function and mood disorders.  Dr. Goforth is currently the lead author on the chapter dealing with depression and HIV in the upcoming Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry.  He has participated in more than 15 clinical trials involving different aspects of consult-liaison aspects of psychiatry and sleep, and is an active reviewer for multiple psychiatry and neurology based peer-reviewed journals.

Honors received by Dr. Goforth include the NIH Loan Repayment Program Award for Clinical Research, election to Alpha Omega Alpha, and being included in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 60^th Edition, New Providence, New Jersey. 

Dr. Goforth is a member of the American Association of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and is a founding member of the Organization of AIDS Psychiatry.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1.  Goforth HW, Cohen MA, Murrough J.  Mood Disorders in HIV Disease.  In, Mary Ann Cohen and Jack Gorman (Ed.), Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry, Oxford Publishing, 2007 (accepted, in press).

2. Goforth HW, Cohen MA, Khalife S, Hurtado A.  Distress in Persons with HIV and AIDS.  In, Mary Ann Cohen and Jack Gorman (Ed.), Comprehensive Textbook of HIV-AIDS Psychiatry, Oxford Publishing, 2007 (accepted, in press).

3. Winston J, Goforth HW, Levy N, Cohen MA.  HIV-Associated Nephropathy, End Stage Renal Disease, Dialysis, and Kidney Transplant.  In, Mary Ann Cohen and Jack Gorman (Eds.), Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry, Oxford Publishing, 2007 (accepted, in press).

4. Goforth HW, Konopka L.  Electrophysiology of HIV Disease.  In, Francisco Fernandez and Pedro Ruiz (Eds.), Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Publishers, 2007 (accepted, in press).

5. Goforth HW, Lupash DP, Brown ME, Tan J, Fernandez F.  Role of Alcohol and Substances of Abuse in the Immunomodulation of Human Immunodeficiency         Virus Disease: A Review.  Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment.  3 (4): 174-183, 2004.

6. Goforth HW, Konopka L, Patel R, Blodgett CJ, O’Donnell KB, Shirazi P, Primeau M, Rao M:  Quantitative Electroencephalography in Frontotemporal Dementia    With Methylphenidate Response:  A Case Study.  Clin EEG Neurosci. 35(2): 108-11, 2004.  

7. Goforth HW, Primeau M, Fernandez F:  HIV/AIDS and Alcoholism. In, Bankole A. Johnson, Pedro Ruiz, and Marc Galanter (Eds), Alcoholism: A Practical Handbook, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.