Gerardo Gonzalez-Haddad, MD
Medical Director, Addiction Treatment Center at Naukeag
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
Gerardo Gonzalez-Haddad, MD, is the medical director of McLean’s Addiction Treatment Center at Naukeag and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has more than 20 years of experience in clinical services, research, and teaching in addiction psychiatry. Dr. Gonzalez-Haddad is originally from Colombia and after receiving his medical degree, he trained in psychiatry in Bogotá, Colombia and obtained a diploma degree in addiction behavior (DAB) from the University of London. He completed his second residency in psychiatry in the U.S., followed by a fellowship in substance misuse at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Gonzalez-Haddad was recruited to join McLean in 2022 from the University of Massachusetts T. H. Chan Medical School. His clinical and research expertise are in treatment of co-occurring addiction disorders, development of medication treatment options for substance use disorders, evaluation of psychosocial interventions for patients with opioid use disorders, and, more recently, developing a treatment improvement protocol to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in early addiction recovery.
Books
Psicoterapeutica esencial para el medico no psiquiatra (Essential Psychotherapeutics for the Non-Psychiatrist Physician)
by G. Gonzalez and M. Romero-Gonzalez
(Ediciones Rosaristas, 1994)
Education & Training
- 1978 BC General, Colegio San Viator, Bogotá, Colombia
- 1984 MD, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
- 1992 DBA, Addiction Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK
- 1983-1984 Internship, Hospital Universitario, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
- 1986-1989 Psychiatry Residency, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Colombia
- 1996-1997 Psychiatry Internship, Yale New Haven Hospital & West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital, Yale University
- 1997-1999 Psychiatry Residency, Yale School of Medicine
- 1999-2000 Chief Resident, Healthcare for Homeless Veterans, West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital, Yale University
- 1999-2000 Research Fellowship, Health Service Research, Northeast Program Evaluation Centre, West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital, Yale University
- 2000-2001 Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine
- 2001 Psychiatry, American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
- 2004 Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
- 2008 Medical License, Board of Registration in Medicine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts