About

Dr. Bryon Adinoff has been a board-certified Addiction Psychiatrist for over 30 years. He is presently a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Adinoff has published over 160 articles and chapters on the biology and treatment of addiction and is Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

Dr. Adinoff received his medical degree from Michigan State University, obtained residency training in psychiatry at Tulane University, and completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Clinical Studies at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health. Prior to his move to Denver in 2018, he was the Distinguished Professorship of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Director of Research for Mental Health at the VA North Texas Health Care System for over 20 years. Dr. Adinoff was also staff physician in the Dallas Veterans Administration for 30 years, having served as the medical director of substance abuse programs at both the Charleston, South Carolina and Dallas VA Medical Centers.

 
 

Credentials

  • Board-certified in both Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry.

  • FAA-Certified HIMS Psychiatrist for the assessments of pilots.

  • Previous chair of the impaired physician committee at Parkland Medical Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2014-2018).

  • Research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Department of Veterans Affairs

 
 

Organizations

  • American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, Distinguished Fellow

  • International Society of Addiction Journal Editors, Board Member

  • American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Fellow

  • American Psychiatric Association

  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

Detailed description of education, work and administration experience, publications and presentations: Adinoff CV

Complete listing of published articles can be found on: Pubmed or Google Scholar.