Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness: Case Based Discussion

Dr. Ashwin A Patkar is Chief of Avance Psychiatry, Raleigh, NC and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, NC and Associate Professor and Associate Medical Director of Substance Abuse Programs at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. PA.

Dr. Patkar has over 25 years of clinical and scientific experience in addiction, dual diagnoses, and pain and addiction. Dr Patkar is Certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine and Pain Medicine. Dr Patkar has been listed in the Best Doctors in America continuously since 2009-2020. He holds unrestricted license to practice medicine in North Carolina and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Patkar has published over 250 scientific articles, 6 book chapters and has given over 400 presentations and invited lectures at national and international meetings. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association (APA), President of North Carolina Chapter of ASAM, the Past President of the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, and member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Indian Psychiatric Society, Royal College of Psychiatrists and World Psychiatric Association. Dr Patkar is married with 2 children and enjoys fishing, yoga, squash, and cricket.

Our speaker, Dr. Tom Penders, is a psychiatrist at Lakeside Psychiatric Hospital, part of the Walter B Jones Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center in Greenville, NC. He is an affiliate professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

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