Positions and Employment

1987 – 1988 Research Assistant, Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1989 – 1990 Rotating Trainee, Kindergarten Intervention Program (KIP) Los Angeles School Mental Health Services.
1990 – 1990 Research Assistant, Autism Project, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
1990 – 1991 Rotating Trainee, San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic.
1991 – 1993 Staff Research Associate, Schizophrenia and substance abuse research, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center-Brentwood Division, University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital.
1993 – 1997 Clinical Research Assistant, Childhood psychiatric and chronic illnesses research, Departments of Psychiatry and Hematology, Children's Hospital Oakland.
1995 – 1996 Rotating Trainee, Counseling Center, University of California, Davis.
1996 – 1997 Rotating Trainee, Psychological Service Center, California School of Professional
Psychology.
1997 – 1998 Pre-Doctoral Internship, Psychology, Boston Department of Veterans Affairs
Psychology Internship Consortium (APA-accredited), Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston.
1998 – 1999 Research Fellowship, Psychology, National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD), Women’s Health and Sciences Division, Boston VA Medical Center, Boston.
2000 – 2001 Post-Doctoral Fellow/ Assistant Research Scientist, Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Hematology/Oncology, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland.
2002 – 2004 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2004 – 2009 Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2006 – 2009 Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2009 – 2015 Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Pediatrics Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2012 – Current Founder and Faculty member of the USC Institute for Integrative Health & Wellness Program. Accepted into “The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2015 – Current Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2019 – Current. Professor (Joint Appointment) Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2022 - Current Professor (Joint Appointment) Professor, Clinical Scholar Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, is a Professor (Clinical Scholar) in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Gold is a licensed clinical psychologist, Director Emeritus and Founder of the Pediatric Pain Management Clinic within the comprehensive interdisciplinary Pain Medicine Division in the Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Gold has been a diversely funded (i.e., NIH, philanthropic, foundation, industry) clinical research scientist and the director of The Biobehavioral Pain Lab, the CHLA Children’s Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation (C.O.R.E.) program, current director and co-founder of the USC Institute for Integrative Health & Wellness (IIHW), PI for the Pediatric Integrative medicine (PIM) program, and faculty within The Department of Psychology in the Pediatric Psychology specialization at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Throughout his career he has been proud to uphold the scientist-practitioner paradigm of clinical discovery and patient care. He’s always believed that everything you do, must also be studied/evaluated. Gold has a long career in working with children, adolescents, emerging adults, and adults in clinical and clinical research contexts. He has specialized in the assessment, treatment, and clinical investigation of acute and chronic pain and health outcomes (e.g., health-related quality of life, sleep) in children, adolescents, and adults with various chronic medical illnesses, such as sickle cell disease, chronic pain, cancer, and co-morbid psychiatric conditions, such as PTSD, depression, ADHD, and anxiety disorders. He is actively engaged in the evaluation and utility of digital therapeutics (i.e., virtual reality, XR, digital mobile applications, virtual care) focused on patients and their families and healthcare providers targeting health and mental health outcomes (i.e., reducing stress, pain, anxiety, psychological distress), while increasing comfort, satisfaction, and overall health outcomes and wellness. Lastly, Gold is engaged in the ongoing delivery and evaluation of PIM practices, such as mindfulness, yoga, acupuncture, massage, and biofeedback.

After graduating with his doctoral degree in clinical psychology (1999), he completed a research fellowship at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress in Boston and later a clinical postdoctoral fellowship in the Departments of Hematology/Oncology and Psychiatry at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. Her has been a proud member of both the CHLA and USC communities for more than two decades has had the pleasure to partner with interdisciplinary teams and provide leadership on a variety of committees, programs, clinical care, and scientific discovery. Being a mission and vision driven faculty with an eye toward innovation Gold has had the privilege to collaborate with other like-minded faculty and staff to build programs that are sensitive to patients, families, peers, and trainees alike in the pursuit of healthcare and discovery. Working within CHLA and USC for more than two decades , he has been focused on the provision of “Whole Person Health” to underserved, economically marginalized and disadvantaged children/adolescents and their families. As a faculty member at CHLA and USC he has enjoyed functioning on numerous interdisciplinary healthcare teams and cross-disciplinary investigators in scientific discovery, while elevating patient advocacy through his work as the CHLA IRB chair, the director of the USC IIHW, and participation in numerous USC campus committees, such as the USC Task Force on Interdisciplinary Communities (Nominated/Appointed jointly by the Academic Senate and the Provost with oversight provided by the Academic Senate), and the Keck Well-Being Council.

PRIMARY AREAS OF RESEARCH
Biopsychosocial, neurodevelopmental, and neurobehavioral investigations of acute and chronic pain, chronic illness and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in medically ill children and adolescents. Investigating the role virtual reality (VR) for procedural distress (i.e., pain and anxiety) for children and adolescents. Dr. Gold is actively engaged in the evaluation and utility of complementary and alternative medicine (i.e., virtual reality, massage, acupuncture, massage, yoga, mindfulness) for reducing pain, anxiety, psychological distress and increasing comfort and satisfaction in hospitalized children.