LEADERSHIP
- Program Director, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program
- Director, Division of Addiction Treatment, Education, and Research
- Assistant Professor
PROGRAM INFORMATION
- 215-955-8570
- 215-923-8219 (fax)
Clinical Sites
Pathways to Housing PA
Pathways to Housing PA is a Housing First organization providing supported housing and intensive 24/7 social services for approximately 400 people with histories of chronic homelessness, serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Pathways services are delivered using an assertive community treatment-like model. The Pathways staff includes two full-time psychiatrists, six team nurses, and a nurse manager who form an integrated care team with the primary care staff.
Activities for the fellow will include identification, assessment, treatment counseling, treatment planning, and care coordination of patients with substance use disorder. The fellows will act as a specialty consultative physician with care focused on the addiction disorder or as a physician who provides comprehensive care for the patient panel, including diagnosis and treatment of substance-related problems and other addictions.
Jefferson Addiction Medicine Service (JAMS)
JAMS, the addiction arm of the Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Service, provides an invaluable service to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The service manages complex withdrawal states, helps patients and medical/surgical teams navigate difficult behavioral interactions, manages acute pain in patients in withdrawal, and works collaboratively to help teams manage complex discharge planning. In addition to the usual services that JAMS provides, fellows will provide brief psychotherapeutic interventions for patients at risk for self-initiated discharges and conduct inpatient admissions to NARP for patients being discharged to skilled nursing facilities and requiring methadone maintenance treatment.
The Stephen & Sandra Sheller Consult & Bridge Program
Newly opened in 2024, the Bridge Program is the outpatient complement of the inpatient JAMS consult team. This Program focuses on compressive care approach for OUD and common medical complications including HIV, HCV, and complicated wounds. Fellows will rotate with through the Bridge Program and work alongside certified recovery specialists to deliver a wide range of medical and behavioral services.
Jefferson Outpatient Addiction Psychiatry Service (JOAPS)
JOAPS is located in our offices at 33. South 9th St. This service provides treatment for a wide range of substance use disorders, behavioral addictions, and other comorbid psychiatric disorders. Fellows will work with a diverse patient population including those with both public and private insurance, adolescents and older adults, as well as Jefferson employees and their family members. Fellows will provide high quality medication management and utilize a wide variety of psychotherapeutic techniques.
Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Program (NARP)
Located on the corner of 21st Street and Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia, NARP offers treatment with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), including methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. As an academically based Opioid Treatment Programs in Philadelphia, NARP is uniquely suited to help patients with complex medical situations that would otherwise preclude their acceptance at other OTPs in the city.
In addition to MOUD, NARP provides a wide range of treatments for other substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders. Fellows will work closely with a dedicated interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, and certified recovery specialists. Working closely with Jefferson’s other inpatient and outpatient services allows our fellows to situate their positions as addiction psychiatrists within the larger system of patient care.
Pain Medicine Services
Fellows will work with pain medicine experts in providing a wide range of medication and anesthesia-based treatments for patients with both cancer and non-cancer related acute and chronic pain, as well as those requiring symptom management alongside cancer-related pain management.
Many of these pain services frequently collaborate with our other addiction services to help provide compassionate, safe, and effective pain management to shared patients. Fellows will have the opportunity to choose from 2 of 3 unique pain medicine experiences, including:
- Outpatient pain management services for patients with chronic pain at the brand new Jefferson Pain Center, located at 3 Crescent Drive at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
- Inpatient pain management services on the hospital based Acute Pain Service
- Inpatient & outpatient pain management on the Palliative Care Services