Zev Schuman Olivier MD

Dr. Zev Schuman-Olivier is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

As a board-certified addiction psychiatrist, he has been involved with research and clinical care of patients with addiction and mental illness. He has conducted several research projects focusing on treatment of addictive disorders. Prior to his psychiatric residency, he helped coordinate and implement the first federally-funded, randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-oriented intervention for addictive disorders. He was principal investigator on a NIDA grant to develop an ecological momentary assessment tool for investigating the effects mindfulness training on smoking cessation.

He also received a Harvard Medical School Dupont-Warren research fellowship to investigate the effects of meditation on inhibitory control. He has published numerous studies on the treatment of opioid dependence, addressing the challenges facing implementation of outpatient buprenorphine maintenance therapy.