Resume of Dr. Richard Oddy

Resume of Dr. Richard Oddy

Complete resume of Richard A Oddy MD, MA, DABPN, FASAM

Primary Specialties

  • General Psychiatry – Outpatient and Inpatient
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy

Board Certifications

  • Board Certified in Psychiatry(American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology ABPN 2001 active)
  • Specialty Board Certification in Psychosomatic Medicine(ABPN 2005 active
  • Board Certified in Addiction Medicine(American Board of Addiction Medicine 2005 to 2021)
  • Lifetime Fellow American Society of Addiction Medicine

Primary Interests and Areas of Expertise

  • Throughout practice and residency maintenance of interest, training and expertise in psychopharmacological management of psychiatric illness including mood disorders, anxiety disorders and ADHD. Providing psychopharmacological interventions in high acuity and low acuity settings.
  • Addiction medicine and management of cooccurring disorders. Throughout training and practice development of interest and skills in the management of substance use disorders and especially when cooccurring with psychiatric illness, maintenance of expertise in psychopharmacology management of substance use disorders including buprenorphine maintenance, management of substance use disorders in the acute inpatient setting including detoxification as recently as 2021, and ongoing outpatient management of substance use disorders, expertise in use of motivational interviewing.
  • Consultation-liaison psychiatry. Maintenance of interest and expertise in the management of psychiatric illness in the medically unwell patient and those with psychiatric illness, substance use disorders and medical illness. Special interest in the most complex patients with chronic illness such as chronic pain and substance use disorders.
  • Inpatient psychiatry. Maintenance of skills in the acute inpatient psychiatric and detoxification settings with experience throughout career and most recently Colorado between 2005 and 2021.
  • Psychotherapy. Early interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and then development throughout career in evidence-based psychotherapies including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing. Interest in providing psychological interventions in all treatment settings including inpatient and outpatient care.
  • Collaboration and Education. Maintenance of excitement, interest and expertise in collaborative work with allied health professionals including advanced practice psychiatric nurses, physician assistants, psychotherapists and intensive case managers in the inpatient and outpatient settings, history of physician agreements with nurse practitioners and early post graduate physician assistants. Educational experience with family practice residents.
  • Versatility throughout all psychiatric settings. Maintenance of excitement and expertise in working in all treatment settings including outpatient private practice psychiatry, outpatient community mental health, acute inpatient settings, integrative primary care psychiatry, telepsychiatry and residential treatment centers.

Work Experience

  • Aurora Mental Health and Recovery Crisis Stabilization Unit Lead Psychiatrist
  • R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC. Outpatient private practice 2005 to 2023. Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado General psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, addiction medicine, collaborative practice with both physician assistants, psychiatric nurse practitioners and counselors, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, adults and adolescents, buprenorphine maintenance. Management of all psychiatric illness and cooccurring disorders, close collaboration local primary care providers.
  • Johnstown Heights Behavioral Health, Johnstown, Colorado 2021. Attending psychiatrist inpatient acute psychiatry and detoxification. Daily and on call responsibility for two acute units. Collaborative practice with psychiatric nurse practitioners.
  • Mountain Crest Hospital, Fort Collins, Colorado. University of Colorado Health. 2004 to 2009. Inpatient psychiatry adult and adolescent. Weekend and on call responsibility for adult and adolescent units, consultation-liaison psychiatry.
  • Larimer Center Mental Health Child and Family Psychiatry Division, Loveland, Colorado. psychiatrist child and adolescent outpatient psychopharmacology.
  • Turning Point Residential Treatment. Fort Collins, Colorado. Consultant psychiatrist on-site psychopharmacology adolescent males.
  • Health District of Northern Larimer County 2004 to 2009: Primary Care/Mental Health Integration Team. Psychiatrist: Clinician, Consultant, Educator, Supervisor. Integrative psychiatric and addiction care in family medicine settings. Collaboration family practice physicians, psychotherapists and case managers.
  • Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program and Primary Care Clinic, University of Colorado Health 2004 to 2009: Core Faculty, Counseling and Wellness Services. Resident education, consultation and outpatient care. Integrative psychiatric and addiction care in family practice setting and collaboration family practice faculty physicians, family practice residents and counseling and wellness staff and case management,
  • Salud Family Health Center, Fort Collins 2004 to 2009. Consultation and outpatient care integrative psychiatry in family medicine center for all ages, psychopharmacology, collaboration family practice physicians, counselors and case management.
  • Good Samaritan Health Systems, Kearney, Nebraska 2003 to 2004
    Medical director of residential treatment center for adolescent girls with addiction and abuse pathology, attending psychiatrist adult and adolescent inpatient units, working as part of a multidisciplinary team, supervising therapists, social workers, nursing, psychologist. partial day hospital programs for adult/youth, outpatient clinic all ages psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, collaborative psychiatrist for psychiatric nurse practitioner, electroconvulsive therapy both inpatient and outpatient, consultant psychiatrist for adolescent treatment group homes, outpatient psychotherapy, teaching of family practice residents and physician assistants residents, outpatient consultation referrals from local physicians and inpatient consultation referrals from local MDs for all consultation-liaison work, community education
  • Great Plains Regional Medical Center – North Platte, NE 2000 to 2003
    Attending psychiatrist, inpatient adult/adolescent, partial day hospital programs for adult and adolescent, outpatient clinic with adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent caseload, medication management and psychotherapy, consultant psychiatrist for “Boys and Girls Home of Nebraska “A Place For Me” child residential treatment programs and “Enhanced Treatment Group Home” adolescent treatment group home, management of moderate to severe mental illness in children, consultant psychiatrist for several local nursing homes, supervising psychiatrist for local mental health counselors, collaborative psychiatrist for psychiatric nurse practitioner, outpatient and inpatient ECT, teaching of family practice residents and physician assistants residents, outpatient and inpatient consultations for all local physicians, lectures to community professionals on diagnostic and treatment issues.

Education and Training

  • 06/1996 – 06/2000 Residency in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College – Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY. PGI to PGIV
    New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center
    PGYIV Resident – Assistant Psychiatrist, NYPH Clinical Assoc.,
    Cornell University Medical College
    Graduation 6/2000
    Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless, New York 1998-2000
  • 02/1996 – 06/1996 University of Cambridge, England, UK
    Senior House Officer, Department of Psychiatry PGII
  • 08/1995 – 02/1996 University of Cambridge, England, UK
    Junior House Officer, Department of Medicine PGI
  • 01/1995 – 08/1995 Dryburn Hospital, Durham, England, UK
    Junior House Officer, Department of Surgery PGI
  • University Education and Medical Degrees
    March 1996 Master of Arts, University of Cambridge, England
    December 1995 Bachelor of Medicine/MD, University of Cambridge, England
    December 1994 Bachelor of Surgery/MD, University of Cambridge, England.
    June 1994 Bachelor of Arts, Honors, University of Cambridge, England (Specialized in pharmacology)
  • Examinations and certifications.
    American Academy of Pain Management 2006 Credentialed in Interdisciplinary Pain Management
    American Board of Addiction Medicine 2005 Board Certification
    American Board Psychiatry Neurology Board Certification Consultation Liaison Psychiatry 2005
    American Board Psychiatry Neurology Psychiatry – Board Certification 2002
    ECFMG certification valid indefinitely (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate)
    United States Medical Licensing Examination 1,2,3

Research

  • Department of Psychiatry, Mood Disorders and Dysthymia Research Center, Cornell Medical College – New York Hospital. Clinical work with three research studies. Co-investigator – this involved work in study planning and facilitation, work as a rater of symptomatology, and clinical management roles as psychopharmacologist in all three trials.
  • “Open-Label Evaluation of the Efficacy, safety and Dosing of citalopram in outpatients with Depression.”
  • “A Multicenter, Double-Bind, Placebo-Controlled, Flexible-Dose, Parallel-Group Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Lamotrigine in the Long-Term Prevention of Mood Episodes in Patients with Bipolar Disorder with Rapid Cycling: Incorporating Participation in Genotype Research – Optional for Both Patients and Sites.”
  • NIMH funded study testing relative efficacy of four treatments for dysthymic disorder, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Supportive Psychotherapy, sertraline plus Clinical Management, Combined Treatment with Interpersonal Psychotherapy and sertraline
  • 06/1992 – 09/1992 Department of Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA – working with Professor R. E. Bloom, publication (K. R. Melia, A. Tremleau, R. Oddy, P. P. Sanna, F. E. Bloom. Detection and regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA in catecholaminergic terminal fields: possible axonal compartmentalization. Experimental Neurology, Vol 131, pages 1-13, Dec. 1994)
  • 03/1992 – 06/1992 Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge University, UK– working in neuropharmacology with the team of Dr. P. J. Richardson on investigation of adenosine neurotransmission in rat striatal cholinergic nerve terminals.
  • 06/1991 – 09/1991 Department of Pharmacology, Liverpool University, UK– working in clinical pharmacology with the team of Professor A. Breckenridge, principally using high performance liquid chromatography techniques to define assays for anti-HIV drugs, especially ddC.

Psychoanalytic Training

  • William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis
    West 74 St. NY, NY. Interpersonal psychoanalytic training 1998 through 2000: didactic classes, supervised psychoanalytic cases 1998 through 2005: personal training psychoanalysis