Advisors
The advisors for
The Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation

Linn Goldberg, M.D
Linn Goldberg, M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Head of the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University. Dr. Goldberg is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and founding member of the Endocrine Society's Hormone Foundation. He has over 30 grants and 200 scientific publications.

Dr. Goldberg is the Principal Investigator of the ATLAS program, shown to reduce performance enhancing drugs, alcohol and illicit substances among male adolescent athletes and Co-Principal Investigator of ATHENA, the high school female athlete program that effectively reduced substance use and improved nutrition practices. ATLAS and ATHENA were awarded the Champion Award by Sports Illustrated and currently are being disseminated to high schools throughout the United States by the National Football League.

Dr. Goldberg has been an expert witness for the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the prevention of performance enhancing drug use and a featured speaker at national and international conferences on drug prevention among adolescent athletes, including those sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. Department of Education, American College of Sports Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, the Council of Europe, the International Olympic Congress, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Robert S. Gotlin, D.O.
Dr. Robert S. Gotlin is the Director of Orthopaedic and Sports Rehabilitation in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. He is also the Coordinator of Beth Israel’s Musculoskeletal and Sports Rehabilitation Fellowship training program and an assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Dr. Gotlin received his medical degree from the Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in Miami, Florida and did his medical internship at Brookdale Hospital Medical in Brooklyn, New York, followed by his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York. He served as chief resident for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

He is board certified by both the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. As the program chairman for the New York State Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he organized an ongoing lecture series for specialists in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Charles E. Yesalis, MPH, ScD
Charles Yesalis is known worldwide for his research and teaching related to the use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

Dr. Yesalis received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Michigan and he was awarded his doctoral degree by the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1975. He then joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins for one year. Dr. Yesalis was a member of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa, College of Medicine from 1976-1986. Currently he is Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Exercise and Sport Science at The Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Yesalis has testified six times before the U.S. Congress and acted as a consultant for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Yesalis is the author and editor of four books on drugs in sport: The Steroids Game, Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise (First and Second Editions), and Performance-Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise with Dr. Bahrke.

The Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation:
Is a non-profit corporation that was formed in 2005 in memory of Efrain Anthony Marrero. Efrain took his own life on September 26, 2004, three weeks after he stopped using steroids.