Addiction Medicine Psychiatrist and Associate Professor
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the Carilion Clinic
David W. Hartman MD is a psychiatrist, subcertified in Addiction Medicine, providing outpatient services at the Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA and is an Associate Professor with the VA Tech Carilion School of Medicine. David was admitted in 1972 into Temple University’s School of Medicine,first time in modern medical education that a sightless person was admitted into medical school. Dave graduated in 1976 and completed his psychiatric residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. Dave entered private practice in Roanoke, Virginia 40 years ago. He teaches medical students, residents and fellows in psychiatry and addiciton medicine through his faculty position with the VA Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Dave has a passion for treating addiction and provides medication-assisted treatment, being waivered to prescribe buprenorphine. He led the way to establish the first preferred model office-based opioid treatment program at an academic center in Virginia per the parameters of Virginia's ARTS (Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services) Initiative. Dave has researched the impact of buprenorphine on pregnant patients’ prenatal care and factors predicting successful transitions from the ED to outpatient care and retention in buprenorphine treatment. He is a Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dave served as Chairman of Mental Health America of Roanoke, member of Virginia’s State Board for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and the Governor’s Commission on the Opioid/Addiction Crisis in Virginia. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society. Publications include his autobiography, "White Coat White Cane," articles on admitting disabled persons into medical school, sports psychology, SBIRT, addiction, personality disorders. He is married to Dr. Cheri Hartman, who works alongside him at Carilion’s Clinic. Married 49 years with three children, four grandkids. Interests: guitar, swimming, and reading!
