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Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship

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We educate psychiatrists dedicated to advancing medical science, education, and health care for people with substance use disorders. Our goal is to increase the number of psychiatrists working in our field and collaborate with colleagues to improve our patients’ health.

Addiction psychiatrists are in great demand. We are the 2nd largest program in the U.S. and feature an enriching educational experience that provides 5 fellows each year the opportunity to become ABPN-certified in addiction psychiatry. Our diverse training experiences include adult, adolescent, and family approaches to treatment. Fellows benefit from didactics and 1:1 supervision with key faculty.

Program Features

Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D., Program Director
“Our faculty are passionate about teaching and mentoring.”
  • Clinical Opportunities

    We offer abundant opportunities for you to develop as an addiction psychiatrist, including collaborative learning opportunities with distinguished faculty in emergency medicine, family and community medicine, and other specialties. Our variety of clinical opportunities in the Dallas area offer an eclectic array of options in inpatient, partial hospital, outpatient, and community psychiatry in private, public, and veteran settings for a diverse patient population.

    • Consultation-liaison psychiatry
    • Intensive outpatient program
    • Methadone/buprenorphine outpatient clinics
    • Pain clinic
    • Partial hospital program
    • Pre- and post-transplant evaluations
    • Research
    • Specialized treatment for distinct patients:
      • Children and adolescents
      • Health care professionals and lawyers
      • Women and patients who are pregnant
  • Didactics

    Our didactics cover the scope of psychobiological aspects of substance abuse and addiction:

    • Neurobiology of alcohol, cocaine, opioid, narcotic and nicotine addiction, detoxification, and management
    • Addiction in subpopulations such as women, adolescents, and the elderly
    • Diagnosis and management of common co-morbidities, notably hepatitis, HIV, and other infections, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders
    • Facilitation in addiction group counseling programs such as 12-Step
    • Assessment and screening methods
    • Pharmacotherapies for addiction
  • Application Process

    ERAS

    Application Items

    • Curriculum vitae
    • Personal statement
    • Transcripts from medical school
    • Copies of USMLE or COMLEX scores, steps I, II and III (note: step III completion required)
    • ECFMG certificate (if applicable)
    • Three letters of recommendation from faculty supervisors

    Other Items Needed

    • Medical school diploma
    • Visa documentation (if applicable; only J-1 visas are sponsored)

    Electronic Residency Application Service

    Interviews

    We must receive the completed application before we interview (we conduct virtual interviews).

    Additional Notes

    As part of the application and interview process for a potential fellowship position in our program, note that we are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and you would need to meet ACGME requirements for matriculation in our program.

    Upon graduation from our training program, most of our graduates seek board certification. The process of board certification is separate from training and has additional requirements. Some board organizations require completion of all your education in an ACGME-accredited training program. Please contact the appropriate certifying board to understand your eligibility for board certification before accepting (if offered) a fellowship position at our institution.

    GME Policies

    Sample Contracts, Salaries, Benefits

    Questions?

    If you have questions about your application or the interview process, please contact us.

    • Program Director: Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D., Email
    • Program Coordinator: Ty Sanders, Email
      Phone (214) 648-7486
      Fax (214) 648-7370
  • Faculty
    Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D.

    Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D.

    Professor

    • Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Director
    • Distinguished Teaching Professor
    • Associate Director Addiction Division
    David Atkinson, M.D.

    David Atkinson, M.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Medical Director, Teen Recovery Program
    • Children’s Medical Center, Dallas
    Monica Radford Barbosa, M.D.

    Monica Radford Barbosa, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Attending Physician, Addiction Team, North Texas VA HCS
    Adriane dela Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.

    Adriane dela Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Associate Resident Training Director
    • Academic Colleges Assistant Director
    • Brain and Behavior Course Co-Director
    Fabrizzio Delgado, M.D.

    Fabrizzio Delgado, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    Abbie Ewell, M.D.

    Abbie Ewell, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Parkland Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Team Lead
    Tyler Hecht, M.D.

    Tyler Hecht, M.D.

    Adjunct Faculty

    • Addiction Team, North Texas VA HCS
    Kapila Marambage, M.D.

    Kapila Marambage, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Parkland Hospital Addiction Services
    Gonzalo Perez-Garcia, M.D.

    Gonzalo Perez-Garcia, M.D.

    Adjunct Faculty

    • Site Director, Partial Hospital Program
    • Texas Health Presbyterian
    Nancy Onisko, D.O.

    Nancy Onisko, D.O.

    Assistant Professor

    • Emergency Medicine
    Julie Pittman, M.D., Ph.D.

    Julie Pittman, M.D., Ph.D.

    Medical Director

    • Nexus Recover Center
    Juan Sosa, M.D.

    Juan Sosa, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • North Texas VA Healthcare System Mental Health – Substance Use Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program
    Maria Velasco Gaitan, M.D.

    Maria Velasco Gaitan, M.D.

    Clinical Assistant Professor

    • Site Director, Parkland Interdisciplinary Pain Program
    Salim Zulfiqar, M.D.

    Salim Zulfiqar, M.D.

    Adjunct Faculty

    • Medical Director, Opioid Replacement Center, Dallas VAMC
  • Fellows

    Dr. Yesenia Almaguer

    Yesenia Almaguer

    Born in Pharr, TX, and raised between McAllen, TX, and Monterrey, Mexico, Dr. Almaguer attended Ross University School of Medicine and Lincoln Medical Center (NY) for residency. Sadly, mental illness and substance use disorder is not only lacking treatment options but is lacking diagnosis, and life at the border is very harsh, replete with violence, abuse, and addiction. The intersection of trauma and substance use treatment fascinates Dr. Almaguer. As a result, Dr. Almaguer strove to become a better trauma therapist by studying with pioneers like Bessel van der Kolk. In Dr. Almaguer's experience, trauma treatment finds substance use to be a symptom of the trauma rather than a primary target. Her goal is to become a clinical educator and expand her private practice after fellowship. She would like to grow her charity "Worst Patient" to destigmatize mental illness/addiction around doctors. She would also like to expand her work as a Certified Intervention Professional doing Mental Health/Addiction Interventions. Opening a mental health clinic at the Texas-Mexico border is one of her goals as well. Dr. Almaguer’s special interests are in psychedelics (she is certified in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy through the Ketamine Training Center by Phil E Wolfson, M.D.), energy work, trauma-informed care, and forensic psychiatry. Her hobbies are motorcycle driving, outdoor/indoor skydiving, dancing, traveling, hiking, trying different cuisines/new restaurants, and exercising.

    Dr. Barbara “Bobbie” Banner

    Dr. Banner

    Born and raised in Merkel, TX, a town of about 2,000 people west of Abilene, in the north-central plains area, Dr. Banner went to the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, for medical school. Residency training took place at UTSW. Growing up in a rural area, Dr. Banner has always had interest in working in unserved and overlooked populations (whether because of somebody's identity or location). Dr. Banner’s main focus was on LGBTQIA+ populations, with a specific interest in gender-affirming care. Because of the high rates of substance abuse in that specific population, Dr. Banner got first exposure to addiction psychiatry while in medical school and residency. When first starting residency, Dr. Banner felt addiction psychiatry was a subspecialty needing a good foundation and began seeking electives in the field. In Dr. Banner’s experience, treating patients (whether via medication, therapy, or social support) was engaging and rewarding and overlapped with previous interests (e.g., LGBTQIA+ populations) and other parts of the residency experience (e.g., public/community-based care, long-term patient populations). Dr. Banner is searching for a specific starting point for future work with goals to better integrate addiction psychiatry into public psychiatry spaces (state hospitals, MHMRs, etc.) and continuing to be a clinical educator. Dr. Banner enjoys reading and writing, as well as music and theater, especially if performances can be seen live.

    Dr. Kwame Frimpong

    Dr. Kwame Frimpong

    Born and raised in Kumasi, Ghana, where he received his medical degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Medical School, Dr. Frimpong completed Psychiatry Residency training at Harlem Hospital, NY, affiliated with Columbia University. Dr. Frimpong’s desire to provide a holistic treatment approach to persons with mental illness steered him toward addiction psychiatry. He witnessed the larger comorbid rates of addiction with other mental illnesses during his residency, as well as the lack of psychiatrists’ comfortability in treating addiction in tandem with other mental illness (e.g., MDD, schizophrenia, bipolar) that led to some patients receiving treatment for other diagnoses while glaringly not receiving treatment for addiction, which perpetuated and worsened their primary diagnosis. He yearns to be a psychiatrist who will feel confident, comfortable, and equipped to provide a holistic treatment approach to the benefit of his patients. His goal is to establish a teaching role in a hospital to consolidate his knowledge, with an ultimate plan to transition into private practice due to his passion to establish long-term relationships with patients. Dr. Frimpong spends his spare time watching soccer and the NBA with his kids and wife.

    Dr. Vincent Li

    Dr. Vincent Li

    Born in China and raised in Texas, Dr. Li completed medical school and residency at UTSW. Dr. Li was attracted to addiction fellowship training by Dr. Wakhlu’s easy convincing. Dr. Li believes the addiction faculty here are great educators, and he wants to work with and learn from them. He also wants to refine his ability to help patients with substance use disorders, as these disorders are so prevalent in the psychiatric population, and dangerous drugs like fentanyl are sweeping through Dallas. Dr. Li’s goals are to become a clinical educator and focus on inpatient psychiatry. Dr. Li’s special interests and hobbies are music, international food, cooking/baking, traveling, and hiking.

    Dr. Patrick Butler

    Dr. Patrick Butler

    Born and raised in Houston, Dr. Butler studied public health at the University of Austin, completing a public health degree at the University of Texas School of Public Health, and completed medical and psychiatry residency training at UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine. Community and public psychiatry and addiction are strong interests, and seeing how intertwined substance use disorders are with psychiatric and medical disorders--and how debilitating they can be--convinced him to pursue further training and specialization in addiction psychiatry. Outside psychiatry, he enjoys hiking, camping, running, biking, playing with his dog, and listening to audiobooks.

Rotations

  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Our Addiction Clinic faculty and staff include addiction psychiatrists, an addiction psychologist, two advanced practice providers, one licensed clinical social worker, three licensed professional counselors, and one licensed chemical dependency counselor. We provide daily outpatient substance use disorder treatment services such as addiction pharmacotherapy, individual therapy, and group therapy.

    Fellows see patients in the Addiction Clinic under the supervision of an attending physician. Fellows have an opportunity to attend intensive outpatient program groups. They play an active role in the teaching and training of medical students and other trainees rotating through the clinic.

  • Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

    THD is the 898-bed flagship hospital of the Texas Health Resource System and provides medically supervised inpatient withdrawal treatment for substance-dependent patients and an intensive outpatient program. Fellows are members of the treatment team, providing individualized clinical care and addressing the needs of the substance-dependent patient and eating-disordered patient, as well as those with co-occurring conditions.

    You will have the flexibility necessary to meet your educational goals and interests, such as the opportunity to conduct group therapy, individual therapy, or manage the pharmacological needs of patients.

    You will also be encouraged to participate in the training of 3rd-year medical students rotating for their psychiatry clerkship. The THD Psychiatry Department staff strives to provide you with the clinical experience, supervision, and mentoring that fulfills your training objectives.

  • Parkland Health & Hospital System
    Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service

    Fellows have a required 4-month rotation at Parkland Hospital, the 892-bed, tertiary-care, county hospital adjacent to UT Southwestern Medical Center. You will be responsible for performing and documenting inpatient psychiatric consultations on patients presenting with, or found secondarily to have, substance abuse problems. You will also be responsible for providing ongoing psychotherapy and/or medication management to any of these patients for whom it is indicated.

    As a full-time fellow, you will generally have a caseload of five to 10 patients at any one time. This includes three to five new inpatient consults and between 10 and 15 follow-up visits per week. Other members of the consult-liaison psychiatry team are: PG-2 and PG-4 psychiatry residents, a psychosomatic medicine resident, attending psychiatrists, attending psychologists, psychology trainees, medical students, and occasionally neurology residents and geriatric psychiatry residents.

  • Perinatal Intervention Program and
    Integrated Family Planning Opioid Program

    The Perinatal Intervention Program (PIP) and the Integrated Family Planning Opioid Program (IFPOP) together optimize the addiction-related health care of pregnant and post-partum women who are cared for within (PHHS. Because PHHS delivers more babies than any hospital in the nation, clinical care providers encounter many women with substance use disorders. The PIP program is funded by both PHHS and a state Medicaid program, and the IFPOP program is funded by a separate state grant. The combined team that manages the PIP and IFPOP services consists of four physicians, two licensed chemical dependency counselors, and three midwives/nurse practitioners. Importantly, the team works closely with many community partners who have a shared interest, including NEXUS Recovery Center, the New Connections Program in the Center for Addiction Research Studies within the University of Texas at Arlington, various methadone clinics, Parkland Addiction Psychiatry, and Dallas County Jail Health.

    The PIP providers focus on pregnant women who present to PHHS from one of Parkland’s Women's Health Clinics in the community or come to Parkland's emergency department. All patients in Parkland’s Women's Health Clinics who present with a new pregnancy are screened with a validated instrument (NIDA-Assist), and those who screen “positive” are sent to the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic for a Thursday morning appointment, where they receive pregnancy care and a detailed biopsychosocial evaluation by a member of the team. On average, 12-18 patients are seen in the morning. There are admitted patients who are seen Monday through Friday. The PIP team answers calls from the obstetrics service 24/7. Patients who are in opioid withdrawal are mostly started on methadone, with some started on buprenorphine.

    The IFPOP program uses screening instruments to identify women with substance use disorders who are not pregnant but are in between pregnancies. This program engages patients and initiates buprenorphine in appropriate situations. Many IFPOP patients were first identified when they were PIP patients.

  • Pain Clinic Rotation at Moody Outpatient Center

    The Integrated Pain Clinic at Moody Outpatient Center is a highly specialized clinic where patients with complex chronic pain syndromes are referred for treatment. The Integrated Pain Clinic uses traditional and alternative medicine modalities. Addiction Psychiatry fellows will be exposed to the different modalities including pharmacotherapy, counseling, and acupuncture. Cases range from chronic back pain to cancer pain, sickle cell disease, and cases in which there is concern of opioid use disorder and/or opioid dependence. The objective of the rotation is to understand the complex relationship between pain, opioid dependence, and opioid use disorder. This clinic site won the 2023 Healthcare Design Award through the American Institute of Architects.

    Fellows will generally see between 2 and 5 patients daily, which may include a new patient evaluation. Fellows will work in an interdisciplinary team that includes pharmacists, family medicine physicians, acupuncturists, and physician assistants.

  • North Texas VA Health Care System

    Addiction fellowship residents rotating through the VA Medical Center participate in the diagnosis, treatment, treatment planning, and continuing care of veterans between the ages of 18 and 65 years. Inpatient, outpatient, and inpatient residential treatment programs are all directly part of your experience. Treatment with opioid maintenance therapies, including methadone and buprenorphine, are part of the rotation experience.

    You will respond to calls from consultation-liaison and emergency services during regular working hours in collaboration with an attending addiction psychiatrist. There is no after-hours on-call requirement.

    Supervision on the rotation is provided by UT Southwestern Medical School faculty trained and certified in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine, with frequent contact on a daily basis between trainees and clinical teachers. In addition to the clinical work with patients, the VA Medical Center has a vigorous educational program, which includes weekly Grand Rounds, a monthly journal club, and supervised reading with selected faculty.

  • Nexus Recovery Center

    Fellows rotate two days a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, to the Nexus Recovery Center, a substance use disorder treatment program for women 13 years and older. It has a unit for withdrawal management, an inpatient residential treatment program, outpatient programs, and a buprenorphine clinic, plus a day care on site, with transport for middle school kids, and high school teachers who come to campus to teach.

  • Teen Recovery Program

    The Teen Recovery Program is a dual-diagnosis program for teenagers with mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse issues. It is an intensive outpatient program with a group-based treatment model. Fellows participate in initial substance abuse evaluations and provide psychiatric management as appropriate and participate in group therapy under the direction of site director David Atkinson, M.D.

Arqam Abdali

“Meeting people where they are in their journey and helping them in the process of recovery is a very special experience. This experience is what drew me towards Addiction Psychiatry.”

Dr. Arqam Abdali2022 Fellowship Alumni

Alumni

  • 2024

    Accomplishments

    Leadership and Professional Development

    Simratdeep Sandhu was a Co-Investigator on two National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials: STIMULUS (TMS versus Sham for Stimulant Use Disorders) and CURB-2 (Intramuscular Naltrexone and Subcutaneous Buprenorphine versus placebo for moderate-severe Cocaine Use Disorders).

    Natalie Seminario passed her General Psychiatry Board examination in September 2023 and was a co-investigator on three National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials: STIMULUS, MURB (Subcutaneous Buprenorphine versus placebo for moderate-severe Methamphetamine Use Disorders) and CURB-2.

    Joshua Walther passed his General Psychiatry Board examination in September 2023 and was a co-investigator on two National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials: STIMULUS (TMS versus Sham for Stimulant Use Disorders) and CURB-2 (Intramuscular Naltrexone and Subcutaneous Buprenorphine versus placebo for moderate-severe Cocaine Use Disorders).

    Mingxu Zhang passed her General Psychiatry Board examination in September 2023 and was a co-investigator on two National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials: STIMULUS (TMS versus Sham for Stimulant Use Disorders) and CURB-2 (Intramuscular Naltrexone and Subcutaneous Buprenorphine versus placebo for moderate-severe Cocaine Use Disorders).

    Scholarly Presentations and Publications

    Mingxu Zhang presented on substance use disorders in the Future Doctor Pathway Program at Parkston High School April 2024.

    Joshua Walther presented on Adolescent Substance Use Disorders to the Young Men Service League in Dallas February 2024.

    Natalie Seminario presented at Texas Medical Association Conference 2024 on Exploring the Interplay of Substance Use Disorder, High-Risk Sexual Behaviors, and HIV in Heterosexual Populations: Implications for Public Health and Preventive Medicine Strategies. She also had her presentation accepted for AACAP Annual Conference 2024 Influencers Under the Influence: substance-related messaging available to teens on social media platforms. Her poster Tobacco Use Disorder Treatment in Youth with the rise of E-cigarettes was accepted at Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians Conference 2024. She also authored a chapter in the book “Supporting your students dealing with grief in Clinical Considerations” in School-based Health: An Evidence Based Guide for Physicians, Advanced practice providers and School Nurses.

    Simratdeep Sandhu presented an Update on Cannabis Use Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry Advances in Sub-Specialty Psychiatry on April 2, 2024.

    Teaching and Education

    Natalie Seminario presented on Management of Alcohol & Opioid Use Disorders for MS-4 Frontiers in Medicine: Behavioral Health and Neuromedicine class May 2024.

    After Graduation

    Simratdeep Sandhu, Private Practice

    Joshua Walther, Dallas VA Medical Center

    Mingxu Zhang, Inpatient Facility in Texas

  • 2023

    Dr. Rukhsar Ahmed, taking some time off before deciding on the next part of her journey in professional medicine.

    Dr. Sukhmeet Bedi, working as Staff Psychiatrist at Grand River Hospital and St Mary’s General Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

    Dr. Jason Seymour, working at VA Outpatient Substance Use Clinic in Northern Florida.

    Dr. Juan Sosa, is an Assistant Professor an UT Southwestern and on the Addiction Team at the Dallas VA.

    Dr. Maria Velasco, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern, primarily working in the Parkland Outpatient Addiction Clinic.

  • 2022

    Dr. Arqam Abdali

    Staff Psychiatrist, Michael DeBakey VA Health System Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Conroe, Texas

    Dr. Poorvanshi Alag

    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry - Texas Tech Health Science Center, Lubbock, Texas

    Dr. Vecheslav Fedorchenco

    Heading Health (Treatment Resistance Depression Clinic, Private Practice)

    Dr. Stephanie Joseph

    Amen Clinic in Irving-Las Colinas, Texas area (Private Practice)

    Dr. Timothy Saeed

    Telehealth position with Talkitry

  • 2021

    Devin Dunatov, M.D.

    Dr. Dunatov will be joining a private practice in Phoenix, AZ, doing outpatient and residential substance use treatment.

    Daniel Lavin, D.O.

    Dr. Lavin will be working as an addiction psychiatrist for Baylor Scott and White in Temple, Texas.

    Vivek Shah, M.D.

    Dr. Shah will be working as a Staff Psychiatrist at North Texas State Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas.

  • 2020

    Ryan Mals, M.D.

    Dr. Mals is a clinical addiction psychiatrist at Presbyterian Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM, serving in a broad range of settings including IOP, inpatient, outpatient clinic, research and community outreach/education throughout the state of New Mexico.

    Amit Mistry, M.D.

    Dr. Mistry is an addiction psychiatrist at the Substance Treatment and Recovery Clinic in the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System.

    Veronica Perez, M.D.

    Dr. Perez is the Division Director of Addiction Medicine at Baylor Scott & White in Temple, TX.

  • 2010-2019

    2019

    Fabrizzio A. Delgado, M.D. 

    Dr. Delgado is an Assistant Professor at UTSW and Site Director for the addiction psychiatry fellowship’s Pain rotation at Parkland.

    Ivanshu Jain, M.D.

    Dr. Jain is working as a staff psychiatrist at Terrell State Hospital.

    Radha Tripuraneni, M.D.

    Dr. Tripuraneni joined the VA North Texas Healthcare System, working in the outpatient Grand Prairie clinic, primarily seeing addiction patients as well as patients with psychiatric disorders.

    2018

    John Coleman, M.D.

    Dr. Coleman works as an Army Psychiatrist in El Paso.

    Paige Marnell, M.D.

    Dr. Marnell is the Director of Addiction Services for Gateway Behavioral Health in Savannah, Georgia.

    Zakaria Zayour, M.D.

    Dr. Zayour is the head of the psychiatry department in Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Kuwait, and has an Adjunct Faculty appointment at UTSW.

    2017

    Nicholas Heyne, M.D.

    Dr. Heyne is in private practice.

    Austin Lin, M.D.

    Dr. Lin is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

    2016

    Lindsay Chapman, D.O.

    Dr Chapman is a Staff Psychiatrist within the VISN 20 Health Care System.

    Adriane dela Cruz, M.D.

    Dr. dela Cruz is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UTSW, as well as Associate Program Director, General Psychiatry Residency Program; Assistant Director, Academic Colleges; and Co-Course Director, Brain and Behavior. Additionally, Dr. dela Cruz has hosted the "Yeah, No Journal Club."

    Jessica Hutto, M.D.

    Dr. Hutto is working at the North Texas VA Health Care System/Tyler Community Based Outpatient Clinic.

    2015

    Yusra Benhalim, M.D.

    Dr. Benhalim works as a medical director for Optum.

    Nicholas Piotrowski, M.D.

    Dr. Piotrowski is Medical Director of Addictions at Wabash Valley Alliance.

    Qingman Ruan, M.D.

    Dr. Ruan is an attending psychiatrist at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD NeuroPsychiatric Center.

    2014

    Spencer Lee, M.D.

    Dr. Lee is in private practice and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at UT Southwestern Medical School.

    Jin Li, D.O.

    Dr. Li is a staff psychiatrist at Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, TX.

    2013

    Julie Brown, M.D.

    Dr. Brown is a staff psychiatrist at an outpatient clinic for veterans in Oregon.

    Nathan Carter, D.O.

    Dr. Carter has held many different professional roles since graduating from the fellowship.

    2012

    Xingchun Tang, M.D.

    Dr. Tang is a staff psychiatrist at the Austin VA Community Based Outreach Clinic.

    2011

    Phil Chung, M.D.

    Dr. Chung is an outpatient Addiction Psychiatrist for the Puget Sound VA Health Care System.

    Julie (Ross) Pittman, M.D., Ph.D.

    Dr. Pittman is the medical director for Nexus Recovery Center and part of the UTSW Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Faculty.

    2010

    Soo Young Chong, M.D.

    Dr. Chong practices at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX.

    Padmaja Puppala, M.D.

    Dr. Puppala worked on the Addiction Team at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is now at Central Texas Healthcare System.

  • 2001-2009

    2009

    Anthony Mazzarulli, M.D.

    Dr. Mazzarulli practices at Green Oaks Behavioral Healthcare in Dallas, conducts research at the University of North Texas, and teaches Behavioral Science for the USMLE for Falcon Physician Reviews.

    2008

    John Christian Cather, M.D.

    Dr. Cather has a psychiatric practice in Dallas, Texas.

    2006

    Glenn M. Horwitz, M.D.

    Dr Horwitz is in private practice in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

    2005

    Arvind G. Singh, M.D.

    Dr. Singh is in practice at Prince County Hospital, Summerside, Prince Edward, Canada.

    Christopher Lord, M.D.

    Dr. Lord has a thriving clinical practice in Charlotte, NC, where he regularly consults with the McLeod Addictive Disease Center and the Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency and serves as a forensic consultant.

    2004

    Muneeza Hayee, M.D.

    Dr. Hayee works at the Bonham VA residential treatment program.

    2003

    Hisham Ibrahim, M.D.

    Dr. Ibrahim is Associate Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Services at UT Southwestern.

    Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D.

    Dr. Wakhlu is the Associate Chief of the Addiction Division and the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Director for the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern.

    2002

    Maureen Onuaguluchi, M.D.

    Dr. Onuaguluchi completed the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

    2001

    Mark Laty, M.D.

    Dr. Laty practices in Virginia.