Debi A. LaPlante, PhD is Director of the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She joined the Division during 2001, and has been involved with its diverse research, education, and outreach activities. With her colleagues, she developed the Syndrome Model of Addiction and engaged in a seminal 10-year research program on Internet gambling that was the first to use actual gambling records, rather than just self-report. She has authored dozens of book chapters, journal articles, and reports. Dr. LaPlante founded Gambling Disorder Screening Day along with her Division on Addiction colleagues.