Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS

Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, specializes in psychiatry with a focus on addiction psychiatry, particularly related to cocaine addiction. He is the director of the Yale Cocaine Research Clinic, inpatient chief of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, and the medical director of the Forensic Drug Diversion Clinic.

Dr. Angarita is dedicated to understanding and treating substance use disorders, aiming to develop effective treatments for cocaine dependence. As an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, his research interests include the regulation of cocaine self-administration, validation of remote wireless sensor network technology for detecting cocaine use, and investigating cocaine-induced sleep deficits and their therapeutic effects.

Dr. Angarita received his medical degree from Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. He completed a research fellowship in addictions at Harvard Medical School, followed by a residency in adult psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. He continued his specialization with a clinical and research fellowship in addictions psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.