Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Washington
Andrew J. Saxon, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine
Director, Center of Excellence in Substance Addiction Treatment and Education, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Preceding his entry into psychiatry, Dr. Saxon completed an internal medicine internship and worked for 4 years as an emergency room physician. Subsequent to his general psychiatry residency at the University of Washington, Dr. Saxon has more than three decades of experience as a clinical and research addiction psychiatrist. Dr. Saxon is board certified with added qualifications in addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Saxon sits on the editorial boards of the journals, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and General Hospital Psychiatry and is section editor for substance use disorders for UpToDate. He is a lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, where he served from 2017-2019 as that organization’s Chair of the Council on Addiction Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as well as a member of College on Problems of Drug Dependence and of American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
Dr. Saxon’s current research work is supported by the VA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Mental Health and involves pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for alcohol, tobacco, and opioid use disorders, work in co-occurrence of substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder, phenomenology and epidemiology of cannabis use, and treatment of substance use in primary care. He has more than 180 papers published in peer reviewed journals and has done numerous conference presentations.
Friday, April 14, 2023
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM