[2][3] In the 1990s and early 2000s, Gottlieb established, chaired, or led various medical centers and departments.
He is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
[8] He was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2012 to 2016 and as its chair from 2016 to 2018.
[9] He is on the external advisory board of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE).
[10] He and his wife Derri Shtasel, a psychiatrist, have two children: a son, Corey; and a daughter, Zoe.