Clinical Programs Division of Alcohol & Substance Abuse Vanderbilt Addiction Care Center Mission The mission of the Vanderbilt Addiction Care Center is to provide comprehensive and integrated clinical care services to VUMC for adults and adolescents suffering from substance abuse-related disorders and to support the educational and research missions of VUMC and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Objectives To provide exemplary clinical care of substance abuse-related problems within a managed care environment from a perspective that spans the life cycle, is rooted in the patient's family and community, is scientifically based in clinical psychopharmacology and the behavioral sciences, and bridges clinical psychiatry with general internal medicine/pediatrics. To support excellent clinical and research training related to alcohol and drug abuse/dependence through the Divisions of Alcohol and Substance Abuse and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the accredited Psychiatry Residency Training Program to medical and graduate students and to VUMC house officers and fellows in Addiction Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. To support multidisciplinary collaborative research across clinical and basic sciences related to alcohol and drug abuse/dependence within Vanderbilt University through the multifaceted activities of the Vanderbilt Addiction Research Center. Program To achieve these objectives, VACC consists of an integrated system of clinical care services for adults and adolescents who have substance-related disorders. Clinical care is delivered in the Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt [PHV] and The Vanderbilt Clinic [TVC]. Outpatient Detoxification and Pharmacologic Treatment of craving/relapse and emotional problems coexisting with substance abuse/dependence in adults is conducted through the physician practices of members of the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse in collaboration with Psychiatry trainees and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Vanderbilt Clinic for Pharmacologic Treatment of Addiction in TVC. Medical Director: John R. Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D. Contact: John Martens, R.N., M.S.N., C.A.O.D.A.C., Program Director, TVC-Pharmacologic Treatment of Addiction, P.O. Box 13, Nashville, TN 37232-5600. Phone: (615) 343-7607 Fax: (615) 343-8264 E-mail: john.martens.@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu Intensive Outpatient Treatment is provided by a multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment staff under medical supervision in PHV. Medical Director: John R. Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D. Contact: Vanderbilt Respond Partial Hospitalization is provided by a multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment staff under medical supervision in PHV. Medical Director: John R. Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D. Contact: Vanderbilt Respond Inpatient Detoxification and Treatment is conducted in an acute care, fourteen-bed inpatient unit at PHV staffed by addiction care professionals (physicians, physician trainees, nurses, and other addiction credentialed clinicians) organized in closely interacting adult and adolescent treatment teams. Medical Director: Peter R. Martin, M.D. Contact: Vanderbilt Respond Emergency treatment is provided in the VUMC Emergency Department. Family Program, a shared resource for all of the above inpatient and outpatient clinical care services, is conducted in the PHV. Aftercare Program, a shared resource for all of the above inpatient and outpatient clinical care services, is organized to facillitate contact with and long-term care of program graduates as well as to promote community relations. Appropriate contacts are established with self-help groups to meet the needs of adults and adolescents. The clinical services of the VACC have the capacity to provide graded levels of care as indicated by the individual patient's clinical severity, psychiatric comorbidity, and medical complications. The system of care allows patients to enter at any level from various sources (self-referral, referral by a physician, other health care professional, or an EAP) and to move easily between various levels of care as their needs change in the course of treatment. Appropriate consultations are available from other clinical services of VUMC. Vanderbilt Respond, a service located at PHV, provides free, confidential clinical assessments to families and/or individuals who may be experiencing emotional, behavioral and/or substance abuse-related problems. Recommendations for the appropriate level of care needed (see above) for the family/individual are made. Contact: Vanderbilt Respond Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt 1601 23rd Avenue South, Nashville TN 37212 Phone: (800) 365-2270 or (615) 327-7000 Fax: (615) 327-7007 Psychiatry residents interested in applying for a PGY-5 fellowship position in Addiction Psychiatry are invited to request further information from: Peter R. Martin, M.D. Professor, Psychiatry and Pharmacology Director, Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse A-2205 Medical Center North Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 37232-2647 Phone: (615) 322-3527 Fax: (615) 343-8639 Email: martinpr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Informatics Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |Main Page |VUMC |Centers |VARC| Last Modified: Friday, August 9, 1996 webmaster@www.mc.vanderbilt.edu