Bachaar Arnaout, MD

Bachaar Arnaout, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and a staff psychiatrist with the VA VISN 1 Clinical Resource Hub. He completed his psychiatry residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, followed by a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, where he later joined the faculty. Dr. Arnaout is board certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Brain Injury Medicine.

With a primary focus on addiction psychiatry and medical education, Dr. Arnaout has co-edited two books on addiction psychotherapy grounded in the theoretical framework of motivational interviewing: Handbook of Motivation and Change: A Practical Guide for Clinicians (2010) and Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Practice (2017). He was selected as a 2017–2018 Yale Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, which enabled him to share his expertise and contribute to public discourse.