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Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship

Director's Welcome

Welcome to the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine. I am a proud graduate of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship myself, and I can personally attest to the wide breadth of clinical exposure and high-quality faculty teaching. We are committed to providing outstanding education in addiction psychiatry in an environment that is supportive, caring and inspirational. We offer a tailored experience that focuses on your career goals and sets you up for success in your future endeavors.

Dr. Thomas Alexander and Dr. Olawale Ojo

Alex Thomas, MD, director, and Olawale Ojo, MD, assistant director

The Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship was one of a small number of HRSA-supported programs nationwide, and our options for clinical experiences have been rapidly expanding since. We offer inpatient addiction consultations, general outpatient addiction psychiatry clinics at the VA Medical Center Indianapolis, IU Health, and community mental health centers, as well as experiences in specialized clinics such as perinatal addiction psychiatry, fully integrated perinatal psychiatry within a maternal-fetal medicine clinic, embedded liver transplant clinic and a methadone treatment program. By providing these opportunities, you will gain a longitudinal experience in addiction psychiatry spanning the life cycle across a wide diversity of demographic groups. Additionally, and importantly, we value wellness, so you will have no call, no weekend hours, no cross-covering other fellows in case of absences, and have ample vacation, conference, sick and personal time. Faculty are in charge of treatment teams at the various sites while you are away, so you can focus on each clinical site when present. This is all provided within the Indianapolis metropolitan area, which boasts a low cost of living while offering many of the benefits and attractions of a larger city.

Our curriculum also includes weekly addiction psychiatry didactics, multiple teaching opportunities and a half-day of protected time for scholarly activity. You will gain education experience by co-leading a CME-supported regional lecture series, the IU School of Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Symposium, conducting a grand rounds presentation for the Department of Psychiatry, and teaching both medical students and psychiatry residents. You will gain scholarly experience by pursuing a research project, study or analysis within the field of addiction psychiatry to become a peer-reviewed publication. We are the only Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship with a dedicated textbook, The 2 x 4 Model, that enhances your experience by providing a blueprint for fully integrated addiction and mental health treatment programs led by addiction psychiatrists. We provide experiences in such clinics and encourage you to lead the treatment teams at each site by creating comprehensive treatment plans for each individual patient that are then implemented by a team of therapists, case managers, social workers and other support staff.

Our fellows have gone on to become heads of programs, outstanding researchers and international leaders of clinics. I look forward to exploring your goals as an addiction psychiatry fellow. 

Apply

The application process happens through the ERAS/MATCH System. Applicants can start the process at any time through a consultation with the program director, Alex Thomas, MD, or program coordinator, Linda Dye.
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How to Apply

Applicants interested in pursuing additional training in addiction psychiatry to advance their work in academic medicine or patient care are encouraged to apply to this fellowship program.

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Curriculum

Addiction Psychiatry fellows gain the skills to accurately diagnose and develop treatment plans for addiction and mental illnesses and to effectively communicate and educate others in addiction psychiatry and dual diagnosis.

Danielle Patterson and Andy Chambers

Faculty

Fellows in this program work alongside world-renowned faculty in the basic and clinical neuroscience of addictions and mental illness who conduct research on a wide range of topics.

Current Fellows

60203-Kaminski, Amanda

Amanda R. Kaminski, MD

Addictions Psychiatry Fellow

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41159-Salazar, Krystal

Krystal Salazar, MD

Addictions Psychiatry Fellow

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Past Fellows

Chioma Enyi, MBBS, 2025

Brett Montieth, MD, 2025

Thomas Pierre-Philippe, MD, 2024

Alexander Thomas, MD, 2024

Jason Barrett, MD, 2023

Nicholas Bormann, MD, 2023

Stephen Brandt, MD, 2023

Tyler Hecht, MD, 2022

Olawale O. Ojo, MD, 2021 

Rohit P. Shah, MD, 2020

Danielle K. Patterson, MD,  2020

Kevin G. Masterson, MD, 2020

Jason Ehret, MD, 2018

Emily Zarse, MD, 2017 

Camila Arnaudo, MD, 2017

Ayesha Nichols, MD, 2015

Kalyan Rao, MD, 2013

R. Andrew Chambers, MD, 2012

Waqar Mahmud, MD, 2010

Aaron Whiteman, DO, 2007

Deborah Redd, MD, 2005

Kangeyan Pachaiyappan, MD, 2003

Paul Moe, MD, 2003

The IU Addiction Psychiatry Expansion Project

The IU School of Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program was funded, in part, by a multi-million dollar Health Resources & Services Administration Addiction Medicine Fellowship (HRSA-AMF) award that will support the IU Addiction Psychiatry Expansion (IU-APE) Project. 

By 2026, this funding will have helped us recruit and graduate 11 new addiction psychiatry fellows (utilizing a total budget of $2.2 million over six years). These HRSA-supported fellows have also positioned our program as a leader preparing addiction psychiatry physicians, both in the Midwest and nationally. Prior to the HRSA grant, our graduates supported Indiana and Illinois, but as the program has grown we have had fellows take roles in Texas, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, South Dakota and New Zealand.