Joel Nathan, MD has over 16 years experience in addiction medicine and is certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as an addiction medicine specialist. He was certified in 1988 and re-certified in 1997.

He is fellowship trained in substance abuse having had a 2 year fellowship at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco.

He served as Director of several substance abuse programs in California: Kaiser Permanente’s Chemical Dependency Recovery Program in Anaheim, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s Substance Abuse Inpatient Unit in San Francisco, and Stanford University’s Alcohol and Drug Program in Palo Alto.

Dr. Nathan served on the faculty of Stanford University and the University of California-San Francisco. He is certified to treat opiate dependency with Buprenorphine and is certified to train other physicians how to detoxify patients with Buprenophine by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Nathan has nationally lectured on substance abuse treatment and pain management in chemically dependent patients and has published several journal articles on substance abuse. As recently as October, 2003, he was interviewed on the CBS Early Show.

He has been practicing in the New York Metro area since 1999. He served as medical director of several programs including Bridge Back to Life Center in Brooklyn and was the founding medical director of the Addiction Recovery Institute in New Rochelle and New York City.

Dr. Nathan is internationally renowned in providing cutting edge detoxification from all substances of abuse as well as medical management of pain, follow-up of patients who have undergone anesthesia assisted opiate detoxification and he provides advanced techniques and support for relapse prevention.