University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Alexis Ritvo MD, MPH is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist. She is the program director for the University of Colorado (CU) addiction psychiatry fellowship and was associate medical director for the CU Medicine outpatient psychiatry clinic. Born and raised in Denver, CO, she ventured to the northeast for college at Harvard where she graduated cum laude in social anthropology in 2005. She earned her Medical Degree and a Master’s in Public Health in Health Policy from Emory University in 2012. In 2016, she completed her general psychiatry residency at CU where she was the chief resident of the outpatient clinic; the following year she completed her addiction psychiatry fellowship at CU. She has a passion for psychotherapy, teaching and improving health systems and policies. Her current professional goals are: 1. to increase psychiatry resident’s competency in evaluating and treating physical dependence to prescription benzodiazepines and substance use disorders in general outpatient psychiatry and 2. to improve patient access to psychiatric treatment for physical dependence to prescription benzodiazepines and substance use disorders co-occurring with other psychiatric disorders.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM