George Kolodner MD

Dr. George Kolodner is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist who specializes in the intensive outpatient (IOP) treatment of substance use disorders. He founded Kolmac Outpatient Recovery Centers in 1973. Today, he serves as the chief innovation officer. He works to increase awareness of IOP treatment and keep Kolmac on the cusp of leading-edge treatment. While serving as a staff psychiatrist for the U.S. Navy, he witnessed recovery from alcoholism for the first time at a Naval residential rehabilitation program. Motivated by this experience, he became interested in replicating this success in a non-residential “outpatient” setting. After leaving the Navy in 1973, he designed and implemented the first IOP addiction treatment program in the country – Kolmac Outpatient Recovery Centers. His primary focus there has been on developing outpatient treatment strategies for managing withdrawal and rehabilitation services for people with substance use disorders.

Dr. Kolodner received his M.D. from the University of Rochester and completed his psychiatric training at Yale University. He has made many presentations on addictions at the annual meetings of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association, of which he is a Distinguished Life Fellow. His publications on addictions include articles on co-occurring psychiatric disorders, cannabis, and book chapters on outpatient withdrawal management. He is a past member of the APA Addiction Council and Addiction Treatment Committee and a current Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at both Georgetown University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.