Integrative and Translational Approaches to Addiction Psychiatry Work

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 08:30 am to 04:30 pm UTC-04:00

Hulman Memorial Student Union, Dede 1 | Terre Haute

Hamilton Center, Inc.
Publisher/HostHamilton Center, Inc.
Integrative and Translational Approaches to Addiction Psychiatry Work A Symposium For Field Professionals
About this Event

Meet the Presenter

Dr. Andy Chambers is Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He graduated from Centre College (KY) in 1991, Duke University School of Medicine in 1996, and Yale University Department of Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship programs in Psychiatry and Neuroscience Research in 2000 and 2002. He completed his fellowship training in Addiction Psychiatry at IU in 2012, and was director of the IU program from 2012-2025, where he has trained 75% of Indiana's output of addiction psychiatrists. Dr. Chambers' work in the neuroscience of addiction psychiatry has been funded by NIDA and NIAAA; he has done pioneering work in understanding the neurobiology connecting mental illness and addiction and developing a new experimental Medic*tion approach to opioid addiction. His clinical practice is with ASPIRE Indiana health in Indianapolis. He is the author of seminal textbooks for the field of addiction psychiatry including "the 2x4 Model" and "Introduction to Addiction Psychiatry" for medical students, residents, allied health care professionals and scientists in training.



Learning Objectives

  • Understand the pathogenesis of addiction as a progressive brain disease that attacks motivation and is tightly biologically interlinked with mental illness.
  • Develop understanding and awareness of the field of addiction psychiatry at the forefront of integrated dual diagnosis care; introduce a new multidisciplinary learning resource for Academic and Community settings to advance addiction psychiatry care.
  • Describe a new clinical Medic*tion development paradigm at IU-- The Tezampanel project for Opioid Use Disorder-- That leverages innovative principals from addiction psychiatry neuroscience and clinical practice.
  • Describe best practice standards and pitfalls surrounding the prescribing of controlled-drugs that are capable of producing addiction, worsening mental illness and overdose death.


For more information or questions, contact: Amber Barnhill at [email protected]

Event Venue

Hulman Memorial Student Union, Dede 1, 550 Chestnut Street, Terre Haute, United States

Tickets

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