Ismene Petrakis, MD
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Biography
Dr. Petrakis is a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Mental Health Service Line at VA Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) since July 2010. Dr. Petrakis completed residency training at Yale School of Medicine and then a NIDA-funded addiction psychiatry clinical/research fellowship. She joined the faculty in 1992. Prior to July 2010, she was the Director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Program of the VACHS since 1996.
Dr. Petrakis is also the Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Residency at Yale, an ACGME-accredited program and the PI of both an NIAAA-funded and a NIDA-funded training grant (T32).
Her research interests are predominately two-fold: (1) finding appropriate
treatments for dually diagnosed individuals and (2) understanding the
neurobiological mechanisms underlying alcohol dependence. She has received funding from the Department
of Defense, NIH-NIAAA, the VA, NARSAD and the Stanley Foundation.
Education & Training
- Fellow, AddictionYale University School of Medicine (1992)
- ResidencyYale University School of Medicine (1991)
- MDUniversity of Pittsburgh (1987)
Departments & Organizations
- Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
- Adult Psychiatry
- ADVANCE Study
- Alcoholism Treatment Center
- Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol
- Connecticut Mental Health Center
- Division of Addictions
- Division of Mental Health Services
- Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
- Psychiatry
- Psychotherapy Development Center
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars (DAHRS)