The AAAP Outstanding Achievement and Service Award is presented to an outstanding member of the community who works in the field of addiction and who has contributed significantly to the science, teaching, treatment, and/or advocacy related to substance use disorders and co-occurring mental illness.
Ismene Petrakis, MD
Dr. Ismene Petrakis is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and has been the Chief of Psychiatry and Mental Health Services at VA Connecticut Healthcare System for over 10 years. Dr. Petrakis received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and her medical training at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. She completed her residency training at Yale University School of Medicine and then completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, also at Yale University. Since completing her training, Dr. Petrakis has over 25 years of experience in the clinical treatment of addictive disorders, research in this field, and in the education of residents, medical students, post-doctoral fellows, and other mental health trainees. She is also a grant-funded investigator (funding sources over the years have included NIH, VA, Department of Defense, NARSAD, and the Stanley Foundation) whose research interests include developing and testing potentially effective treatments for individuals with alcohol use disorder, opioid use disorder and in those with comorbid psychiatric disorders, particularly PTSD.
The fireside chat will be hosted by AAAP President John D. Mariani, MD on Friday, November 15 8:15am – 9:15am.
