Physician
Health Services, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation that was founded by the
Massachusetts Medical Society to address issues of physician health. PHS is
designed to help identify, refer to treatment, guide, and monitor the recovery
of physicians and medical students with substance use disorders, behavioral
health concerns, or mental or physical illness.
Open Positions at PHS
Board of Directors
Edward
J. Khantzian, MD, President & Chair
Booker
Bush, MD
Corinne
Broderick, MS
James
D. Butterick, MD
Mary
Kraft, MD
Aaron
M. Leavitt, MD
Michael
Farrell, Treasurer
Mary
Anna Sullivan, MD
Stephen
Tosi, MD
Edward
J. Khantzian, MD
President & Chair
Dr.
Khantzian is a graduate of Boston University. He received his medical degree
from Albany Medical College in New York in 1963. He served residencies in
psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Cambridge
Hospital, and he completed his psychoanalytic training at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1973.
He is a
distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former
chair of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Committee on Alcoholism and the
Addictions. Dr. Khantzian was founding chair of the Group for the Advancement
of Psychiatry Committee on Alcoholism and the Addictions. He is also a founding
member and past president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and
was the recipient of their Founders Award in 2000.
Dr.
Khantzian is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a
founding member of the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, and
associate chief emeritus of psychiatry at Tewksbury Hospital. He is a
practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a participant in numerous clinical
research studies on substance abuse, and a lecturer and writer on psychiatry,
psychoanalysis, and substance abuse issues. In addition, he is a recipient of
the PHS Distinguished Service Award (1998) and the Massachusetts Medical
Society Award for Excellence in Medical Service (2002).
Steven
Adelman, MD
Director
Dr. Adelman became Director of PHS in March 2013. Dr. Adelman is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and completed his internship, residency, and chief residency at McLean Hospital. For three years he was a Faculty Fellow in Addiction Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is board certified in psychiatry with added qualifications in addiction psychiatry, and is ASAM certified in addiction medicine.
From 2000-2013, Dr. Adelman was the Director of
Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
(HVMA), where he managed a staff of 130 mental health professionals and created
multidisciplinary programs in pain management and opioid dependence treatment.
He is also a founding trustee of HVMA.
He is currently a Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was the Director of
Outpatient Psychiatry and the primary psychiatrist on the Physicians’ Health
Committee. He has authored or co-authored numerous addiction-related
publications, and has served as an addiction consultant to the National
Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, healthcare organizations, law firms,
and sports franchises.
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