Meet the Staff - David R. McDuff, M.D.

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Dr. McDuff joined the Center in 1997. He is a board certified general and addiction psychiatrist who treats adolescents, adults and the elderly. He specializes in the treatment of mood, anxiety, attention, trauma, and addictive disorders and has an active practice in sports psychiatry providing performance enhancement training to athletes at all competitive levels. Dr. McDuff is one of few area psychiatrists to work with addicted and mentally ill adolescents and with adults with chronic pain and addiction. He is also authorized by the Drug Enforcement Agency to prescribe buprenorphine for opiate withdrawal and cravings.

Dr. McDuff is a nationally known addiction, trauma, and sports psychiatrist and a retired Army Colonel. He holds faculty appointments at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine in Baltimore (clinical associate professor) and the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda (adjunct associate professor). He is the founder of the Maryland’s Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program and has three times been selected by Baltimore Magazine as it Top Doc in Addiction Psychiatry. He is an active teacher and writer who has given more than 100 lectures at national and international conferences and published fifty journal articles, book chapters & reviews, manuals and monographs. Since 1996 he has served as a behavioral sports medicine physician for the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens. Dr. McDuff has been married since 1978 and has four children who range in age from 22-28. For additional information on his work with athletes see his MD Sports Performance website (www.mdsports.net).