Addiction Psychiatry Residency
Faculty
Jonathan I. Ritvo MD, Addiction Program Director, Site Director - University Colorado Hospital
Phone: (720) 848-3019, Fax: (720) 848-3001, E-mail: jonathan.ritvo@uchsc.edu
Thomas Beresford MD, Site Director - Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Phone: (303) 399-8020 x3732
Christian Hopfer MD, Site Director - ARTS/UCD
Phone: (303) 315-0978
Carol Traut MD, Site Director - Denver Health Medical Center
Address for Training Office
University of Colorado Denver
Bld. 500, Mail Stop F546
13001 E. 17th Pl, Room E2328
Aurora, Colorado 80045
Telephone: (303) 724-6021
Faculty Interests
Thomas Beresford, MD - Professor of Psychiatry
Liver transplantation; neuropsychiatry; alcoholism in the elderly; research methods and design.
Christian Hopfer, MD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Adolescent substance use disorders; comorbidity; motivational interviewing.
Jonathan I. Ritvo, MD - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Community-based addiction treatment; dual diagnosis; buprenorphine; addiction education, residential treatment.
Joseph T. Sakai, MD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Inhalant abuse; genetics of addiction.
Christian Thurstone MD- Instructor of Psychiatry
Adolescent substance use disorders; psychopharmacologic intervention; cognitive behavioral therapy; cannabis; nicotine.
Carol Traut, MD – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Opiate maintenance treatment.
Phillip Weintraub, MD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Adolescent substance dependence; adolescent depression; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; adolescent diabetes
Chad Emrick, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Alcoholism, addictive behaviors, mood disorders, marital relationships, and post-traumatic stress disorders.
Paul G. Spicer, PhD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Native American alcoholism and mental health; children of alcoholics; medical and psychiatric anthropology.
Elizabeth A. Whitmore, PhD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Adolescent substance use disorders; comorbidity (conduct disorder and depression); multisystemic therapy.
