Dr WILLIAM HUANG

Title of presentation:
Mindfulness | Dual diagnosis.

Dr Huang completed his Adult Psychiatry residency and served as chief resident of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.  He stayed on and finished his fellowship training in the subspecialty of addiction psychiatry.  He is board certified in both general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry.

He became very involved in the field during residency in treatment of severe withdrawal cases and providing trainings of alcohol withdrawal awareness and treatment protocol to medical students, interns, residents, and nursing staff.  As an addiction psychiatry fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, he helped set up the Addiction Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic as well as providing psychiatric evaluation and treatment for Dual Diagnosis Intensive Outpatient Programme and Inpatient consultations. He also worked with Asian Pacific Counselling and Treatment Centers and Hollywood Mental Health County Clinic in providing evidence-based treatment for minority and underserved patient populations.

His special interest in working with minority groups with co-occurring disorders was awarded the American Psychiatric Association/SAMHSA Substance Abuse Minority Fellowship. He has also been the recipient for Scholarships by American Psychiatric Association /Lily chief resident executive leadership programme, Ruth Fox Scholarship from American Society of Addiction medicine. He was a participant of California Society of Addiction Medicines legislative days in Sacramento to lobby for parity in addiction treatment in California. 

Dr Huang has been an active speaker for workshops, CMEs and special lectures at international conferences and meeting in topics of Biological Perspectives on Co-Occurring Disorders, State of Substance Use Disorder Training, Suicide Prevention, Online Internet games, Virtual Reality and Cybertherapy, Videogames Addiction, Integrating Co-Occurring Disorder treatment in California Prisons, Non-Chemical Addictions and Mindfulness Meditation in Co-Occurring Disorder Treatment.

 He currently works as a consulting addiction psychiatrist for Promises Treatment Centers, staff psychiatrist for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at Pleasant Valley State Prison, and consulting addiction psychiatrist for Southern California Drug and Alcohol Programmes.

Comments

[bieber supra]

Very, very nicely done!