The Developmental Medicine Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Boston Children’s Hospital seek a full time psychiatrist to provide outpatient evaluation and treatment services in the Adolescent Substance Use & Addiction Program (ASAP).  Based in the Division of Developmental Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, the ASAP provides national leadership in the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use problems and disorders in adolescents. ASAP is staffed by addiction medicine specialists, developmental-behavioral trained pediatricians, licensed independent social workers, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to evaluate and support adolescents with a full range of substance use problems and disorders, from teens who have just begun using substances to those struggling with addiction, and their families.

The psychiatrist will be actively involved in education of residents, fellows and other trainees both in the Division of Developmental Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Applicants for this position must be board eligible/certified in general and child/adolescent psychiatry.  While all applications are welcome, applicants with specialized training or certification in addiction medicine are encouraged to apply.  Academic appointment as an Instructor or Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School will be commensurate with experience, training and achievements in addition to teaching activities.