Addiction Medicine Advisor
Lunder Dineen
Mark Publicker, MD has practiced addiction medicine for more than three decades. He is the Past President of the Northern New England Society of Addiction Medicine and Past President of both the Virginia and Pennsylvania Societies of Addiction Medicine. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of Addiction Medicine magazine. Dr. Publicker is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of American Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
He is working with the Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance to develop and disseminate evidence-based education about substance abuse and addiction. Lunder-Dineen is a collaboration between the Lunder Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital.
A nationally known educator and a passionate advocate for addiction treatment, Dr. Publicker has taught addiction medicine in China and helped develop a residential treatment program for drug-addicted homeless boys in Turkey. In 2009. he was named “Caregiver of the Year” by the Maine Hospital Association and Down East Magazine named him Maine’s “Top Doctor in Addiction Medicine” in 2014 and 2015. He has just awarded the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
