Clinical Adjunct Faculty; Tulane University Psychiatry Department; Louisiana State University Department of Psychiatry (OLOL); Attending Physician, Medical Director, Podesta Wellness, LLC; Immediate Past President, Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM); Distinguished Fellow American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
Practicing in New Orleans, Arwen Podesta, MD is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with sub-specializations in addiction medicine, forensic psychiatry, and integrative medicine.
After finishing residency at LSU and forensic fellowship at Tulane, Dr. Podesta served as medical director of the largest public addiction treatment center in the gulf coast south. She also has been medical director of multiple residential and intensive outpatient addiction treatment centers, both private and public. She opened Podesta Psychiatry LLC in 2012, with a team of some of the best treatment providers in the area- a multidisciplinary collaborative model with nutrition, psychotherapy, acupuncture and psychiatry. Podesta Psychiatry has been voted into the ranks of New Orleans Magazine’s Top Doctors on an annual basis. Dr. Podesta’s primary focus has been, and continues to be, access to integrative mental health and addiction treatment, and rational prescribing practices, with a whole health focus for all.
Dr. Podesta maintains an active role in the academic community as a clinical faculty for Tulane Psychiatry Residency and Tulane Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She is a consultant to Criminal Court, in Re-entry Services, and worked in New Orleans Drug Court for many years. She is the immediate past President of the Louisiana chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In 2019 she was awarded the honor of Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is on the board of The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices (www.benzoreform.org). She is currently editing her book, HOOKED, for an updated edition. A renowned speaker, Dr. Podesta regularly travels to teach and speak on the topics of Addiction Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry.
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