Steven A. Adelman MD

Dr. Adelman is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and completed his internship, residency, and chief residency at McLean Hospital. For three years he was a Faculty Fellow in Addiction Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a board certified psychiatrist with extensive clinical and administrative experience in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine.

From 2000-2013, Dr. Adelman was the Director of Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (HVMA), where he managed a staff of 130 mental health professionals and created multidisciplinary programs in pain management and opioid dependence treatment. He is also a founding trustee of HVMA.

He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was the Director of Outpatient Psychiatry and the primary psychiatrist on the Physicians’ Health Committee. He has authored or co-authored numerous addiction-related publications and has served as an addiction consultant to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, healthcare organizations, law firms, and sports franchises.