Richard J. FrancesRichard J. Frances, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He maintains a private practice in New York and was instrumental in the recognition of addiction psychiatry as a medical subspecialty. Board-certified in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry, Dr. Frances was a cofounder and first president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, Director of Education at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences), Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center, and President and Medical Director of Silver Hill Hospital. He has also held leadership positions at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center and has a special interest in addiction, with a focus on impaired professionals. |
All titles by Richard J. Frances:
Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders: Fourth EditionEdited by Avram H. Mack, Kathleen T. Brady, Sheldon I. Miller, and Richard J. Frances