Jessi Gold, MD, MS

Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, M.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. and M.S. in Anthropology) and the Yale School of Medicine (M.D.). She completed her residency training in Adult Psychiatry at Stanford University where she served as chief resident from 2017-2018.

Dr. Gold is particularly interested in physician mental health and wellness, college mental health, women’s mental health and gender equity, and the overlap between popular media, stigma, and psychiatry. More recently, she has been working on the hospital’s mental health response to COVID-19 through the Employee Support team and has had the privilege to see healthcare workers and other employees through her clinic.

In addition to research and publications in major academic journals, Dr. Gold writes for the popular press and has been featured in, among others, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Vox, Newsweek, Self, InStyle, Glamour, and the HuffPost. She is also very active on social media, particularly twitter and was named one of Medscape’s top 20 physician influencers on social media in 2019.