Last updated on:
2/2/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Robert Gorter, MD, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Marijuana Be a Medical Option?"
- Reasoning:
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“My patients who had experience with both cannabis and Marinol almost always preferred cannabis, because Marinol had more side effects, including headaches and a hung-over feeling.”
“Cannabis and Cannabidiol: Interview with Robert Gorter, M.D.,” Aids Treatment News, July 1998
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco Medical School
- Director, European Institute for Oncologic and Immunologic Research, Free University of Berlin, 1994-2000
- Professor, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, S. Africa
- Staff Member, Medical Center, Cologne
- Berlin Institute for Oncological and Immunological Research
- Vice-Dean, Medical School of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
- Set up treatment centers for torture victims, Netherlands, Amnesty International, 1974-1982
- Education:
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- Specialty training, Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), 1983-1986
- MD, Tropical Medicine, University of Amsterdam, 1972
- University of the Western Cape, School of Pharmacy, degree unknown
- Post-graduate training, University of St. Petersburg Medical School
- Other:
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- None found